From Eaton Rapids Joe:
Are more people carrying "crazy-genes" then they did in the past?
The short answer is "yes".
As recently as 1900 in developed countries like Ireland, England and Germany, if your mother was crazy you were probably not going to live to see your first birthday ... In total, crazy-genes had a high probability of "dead-ending". In those days the pool of crazy people resulted from random meetings of recessive genes or in new mutations.
Flash-forward to the permissive, Welfare-State.
... back when "crazy-genes" self-extinguished we experienced a rate of approximately 5% seriously crazy people. Now the crazy-people genes are subsidized rather than exposed to Darwinian selection and the numbers are growing much faster (due to high risk behaviors) than the numbers of not-crazy people.
There's more at the link, including examples. Recommended reading.
I hadn't made the connection in genetic terms. Like almost everybody, I've noted the increase in the number of crazy-behaving "street people": talking to themselves, gesticulating wildly even though they're not talking to anybody, behaving very oddly and sometimes self-destructively, and so on. However, without thinking about it much, I'd assumed that much of this was due to the lack of mental health care (after the closure of most sanatoriums and institutional mental health care facilities). I hadn't thought about the fact that the sheer survival rate of everyone, on average, also meant that more "crazy-genes" were also surviving, and therefore slowly increasing in proportion to the rest of the population.
So . . . if that's the case, how are we going to deal with the problem? We can't very well simply execute those with "crazy-genes" - not and still regard ourselves as human beings. On the other hand, we do them (and ourselves, and our society) no favors by allowing them to increasingly take over our streets. What next?
Peter
" We can't very well simply execute those with "crazy-genes" - not and still regard ourselves as human beings."
ReplyDeleteWe obviously can. Do we revile mothers who hire doctors to murder their own children in the womb as non-human?
Just like "Idiocracy." When you protect and promote dysfunction, you start to get Mouse Utopia 25. We need a cleansing. It will be ugly.
ReplyDeleteOn a totally different note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm9codc_zwk
-Randale6-
ReplyDeleteIt's either figure out gene-editing, exile, sterilization, or outright execution.
I've seen evidence of the genetic tendency to crazy. For the full effect we see now, just add DRUGS.
ReplyDeleteSome of those people talking to themselves are actually talking on a blue tooth phone receiver. Back when that was new, I noticed several people in restaurants laughing and speaking as if there was someone in the same booth. I'm a dinosaur - new fangled gadgets !
ReplyDeleteMight be an easier reason than genetics. After WWII, we had good jobs for fathers. Mothers stayed home and raised the kids. It was a Christian based nation at it's peak. Then Dear leaders killed the single working parent economy. Mothers went to work. Government schools did their dirty work. Today is the result. Just got back from getting the pup dog food and people are driving crazy. A light turned green for me but the cross traffic just kept going against their red light. 5 cars I counted after I had the green. Just nuts. We are sinking to a lower form of human. Will we be the next USSR or commie China or even the next Africa?
ReplyDeleteUp until I read the blog this morning I figured the (seemingly) higher number of crazies I was seeing was because we have more media, I'd figured the percentages of nuts/normal was the same.
ReplyDeleteI can see the logic in what he is saying, this is a problem!
I don't have an answer.
Now the 'neurodivergent' are coddled... sigh
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. I've found that sanity is rather overrated.
ReplyDeleteSeveral years back when we were in Catania, I saw a man having a conversation with himself, gesticulating, while walking down the street.
ReplyDeleteI mentioned it to my wife who said "He was on the phone. Didn't you see the earpiece and mike?"
The easiest solution would be the past solution. Reopen the nut houses and put the American crazies inside. The foreign crazies, deport back to their home countries, with their passports stamped ineligible to enter the US.
ReplyDeleteI am firmly against the murdering of babies and children. Those who were born wrong, are loved by Jesus just as much as he loves you and me. We should have them placed somewhere they can't hurt us or themselves. Simply by taking them out of society, it will begin to improve things. There is no need to purge them.
I don't know when this idea of (it was ok to murder babies, children, and those who are mentally not there) came about, but it needs to be shut down with extreme prejudice.
I am typically not for government spending, but I feel this is one area that is worthy of spending my taxes on. Now that being said again Americans only. Not the illegals who are crazy, not those born to illegals who are crazy. They and their families need to be deported.
- W
Quite a solution there, ship 'em out, let somebody else kill them.
DeleteSo now 50+% of people are carrying crazy genes ? That cannot be good for society but it does explain the multitudes of crazies that running around today in the USA and the EU.
ReplyDeleteI know several "bipolar" people, two in my near family. They act ok then they go crazy and self medicate to stop hearing the voices in their heads. My theory from talking with them is that the left and right hemispheres of their brains hate each and the fighting goes active where the person can hear the disputes.
I'm curious if we really have more, or if they are more visible.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, are fewer of them dying young, like everyone else, so they survive longer and are more likely to reproduce?
I don't trust the statistics or "experts" enough to take an informed position on this.
Jonathan
Concurrent with the growth of the administrative state as well. Causative?
ReplyDeleteModern medicine is not very good at keeping people healthy. But it's real good at keeping people from dying quickly... including the insane who in the past would have self selected themselves out of the gene pool.
ReplyDeleteThe numbers are probably worse than you think. Anti-psycho-meds allow people that might otherwise show up on your radar screen to "function" or at least not draw too much attention. These people may not be as visible as the examples you cite, but they remain in the gene pool...and they (probably) vote...a double-whammy.
ReplyDeleteThere are also just flat out more people now too.
ReplyDeleteLike let's assume 1% of a population is crazy and this is constant. If you have 100 people, you'd have 1 crazy person. But then if the population increases to 1000, you now have 10 crazies.
Though I do think the link is probably mostly right, we can't discount the fact that there are now 8 or 9 bil people on Earth.
Reminded of "The Marching Morons", written back in the 1950's.
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