The so-called Fair Housing Act was the nail in the coffin for free association and continued preservation of Dark Elves - to reverse its ill effects we must have our own space. Excellent article
Your estimates are in line with what I had previously estimated. Growing up, I always knew I was smarter and more knowledgeable than others, and that estimate just gets wider with time. Just reading endless brain dead comments on social media was enough to clue me in on this cognitive disparity. I had originally estimated that around 1 in 100 persons would be as smart or smarter than I but decided to revise it a few years ago to be roughly 1/1000 as I felt that number was more realistic. By definition 1% of the white population has an IQ of 135 or higher, but that doesn't mean that all people with an IQ of 135 have the same intellectual strength. IQ is an age-independent normative metric meaning someone who is 70 years old can achieve an IQ score of 130 while only scoring half as well as the 25 year old in absolute terms. Sure, the 70 year old in this instance is cognitively superior to 98% of other 70 year olds, but it doesn't matter. The level of absolute intellectual volume within a population is more important than relative excellence. About 25%~ of the American population is between the ages of 15 and 35 and the smartest fraction is restricted to this age group due to the absolute peak of intelligence being around 20-25~ years old. Then you have to consider the fact that women make up an additional 50% of that population. Then you cut down the numbers even more after controlling for leftism and other genetic imperfections. It's not looking good.
While something like this might be nice to fantasize about, to call it a pipe dream would be generous. There are plenty of problems with it but the biggest and most obvious is the Woman Question. After first limiting the pool of potential "Dark Elves" to only very smart people, you are then asking all of the fertile (i.e. young) women in that range to be right wing, which will weed out lots of them, and then most importantly, you are *asking them to accept 19th century dating and marriage norms and laws*, which will weed out probably almost all of them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm open to the idea that 19th century marriage laws would be superior to the ones we have today, and I definitely agree that some kind of shift back to traditional marriage and away from so-called "sexual liberation" and feminism would be very beneficial. But the number of smart young women who would be willing to accept this, and to fully cut themselves off from mainstream society in the process, is surely an infinitesimally small population. Even assuming you could find any willing volunteers, how do you stop them from just running to a leftist divorce court at the first sign of trouble? The mechanism for that isn't clear at all, but I feel that it's largely irrelevant as our hypothetical Dark Elf state will likely have zero women signing up for it anyways.
Another roadblock is that, again, even assuming you actually found some quality female Dark Elves who are willing to hear you out with regards to the whole Dark Elfia idea, the gender ratio for this whole thing is still going to end up stupendously lopsided. However few women you manage to recruit, you will surely find an order of magnitude more men who are ready to try it. So, you'll have to limit the number of male applicants severely, or else figure out how to manage a Dark Elfia with something silly like a 5:1 or 10:1 (or maybe worse than that, who knows) male:female ratio.
This is pure speculation on my part, but I'd hypothesize that you'd actually have much better luck getting low IQ women to sign up for tradlarping, specifically because dumb women would be much easier to manipulate and control. But yeah this whole thing is never happening anyways so it's whatever. Personally, I think IQ is a bit overrated, and I'd focus more on ideology. My judgment is that a stupid "based" person is not that much different or worse from a smart one, as long as there are a few smart ones to point him in the right direction. At the very least, I feel confident that I would generally prefer the company of stupid right wingers to that of intelligent leftists.
I think your society is self-defeating with respect to your other writings. Suppose that you could indeed congregate a set of dark elves in some physical location so they breed only amongst themselves, and suppose even that such a society could acheive political independence and sovereignty. Even if everything worked perfectly and you acheive the golden "Atlas Shrugged" society, wouldn't such a society create exactly the conditions to engender maximal mutational load?
Of course, you could exile the non-dark-elf children, but this seems like a non-starter because what parent would accept such a policy? Naturally, the non-dark-elf children will intermarry, and you're a hop, skip, and a step from the degeneracy from which you started.
You might appeal to embryo selection, but I don't think science has reached the point to which you could simultaneously select for IQ, non-leftism, and non-obesity. And if science were to reach such a state, then the appropriate reaction would be to encourage (or force?) all parents to select across these characteristics, such that we could move all of humanity forward, not just a select few.
In my opinion, any reasonable definition of Elves should include the populations of China, Japan, Korea, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia (and Singapore+Hong Kong).
I just trippled the Elf population. You're welcome.
I think with these idea in mind ageist theory need to answer about voting and political occupation age, youth transgenderism, age rating system for media etc...
The so-called Fair Housing Act was the nail in the coffin for free association and continued preservation of Dark Elves - to reverse its ill effects we must have our own space. Excellent article
I once calculated it takes ~100 such dark elves to go to Iceland, breed 7 children and repeat that 7 times with each generation.
This way you could democratically win elections in ~80 years (probably half of that due to sheer pressure of such group if well managed).
Your estimates are in line with what I had previously estimated. Growing up, I always knew I was smarter and more knowledgeable than others, and that estimate just gets wider with time. Just reading endless brain dead comments on social media was enough to clue me in on this cognitive disparity. I had originally estimated that around 1 in 100 persons would be as smart or smarter than I but decided to revise it a few years ago to be roughly 1/1000 as I felt that number was more realistic. By definition 1% of the white population has an IQ of 135 or higher, but that doesn't mean that all people with an IQ of 135 have the same intellectual strength. IQ is an age-independent normative metric meaning someone who is 70 years old can achieve an IQ score of 130 while only scoring half as well as the 25 year old in absolute terms. Sure, the 70 year old in this instance is cognitively superior to 98% of other 70 year olds, but it doesn't matter. The level of absolute intellectual volume within a population is more important than relative excellence. About 25%~ of the American population is between the ages of 15 and 35 and the smartest fraction is restricted to this age group due to the absolute peak of intelligence being around 20-25~ years old. Then you have to consider the fact that women make up an additional 50% of that population. Then you cut down the numbers even more after controlling for leftism and other genetic imperfections. It's not looking good.
While something like this might be nice to fantasize about, to call it a pipe dream would be generous. There are plenty of problems with it but the biggest and most obvious is the Woman Question. After first limiting the pool of potential "Dark Elves" to only very smart people, you are then asking all of the fertile (i.e. young) women in that range to be right wing, which will weed out lots of them, and then most importantly, you are *asking them to accept 19th century dating and marriage norms and laws*, which will weed out probably almost all of them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm open to the idea that 19th century marriage laws would be superior to the ones we have today, and I definitely agree that some kind of shift back to traditional marriage and away from so-called "sexual liberation" and feminism would be very beneficial. But the number of smart young women who would be willing to accept this, and to fully cut themselves off from mainstream society in the process, is surely an infinitesimally small population. Even assuming you could find any willing volunteers, how do you stop them from just running to a leftist divorce court at the first sign of trouble? The mechanism for that isn't clear at all, but I feel that it's largely irrelevant as our hypothetical Dark Elf state will likely have zero women signing up for it anyways.
Another roadblock is that, again, even assuming you actually found some quality female Dark Elves who are willing to hear you out with regards to the whole Dark Elfia idea, the gender ratio for this whole thing is still going to end up stupendously lopsided. However few women you manage to recruit, you will surely find an order of magnitude more men who are ready to try it. So, you'll have to limit the number of male applicants severely, or else figure out how to manage a Dark Elfia with something silly like a 5:1 or 10:1 (or maybe worse than that, who knows) male:female ratio.
This is pure speculation on my part, but I'd hypothesize that you'd actually have much better luck getting low IQ women to sign up for tradlarping, specifically because dumb women would be much easier to manipulate and control. But yeah this whole thing is never happening anyways so it's whatever. Personally, I think IQ is a bit overrated, and I'd focus more on ideology. My judgment is that a stupid "based" person is not that much different or worse from a smart one, as long as there are a few smart ones to point him in the right direction. At the very least, I feel confident that I would generally prefer the company of stupid right wingers to that of intelligent leftists.
I think your society is self-defeating with respect to your other writings. Suppose that you could indeed congregate a set of dark elves in some physical location so they breed only amongst themselves, and suppose even that such a society could acheive political independence and sovereignty. Even if everything worked perfectly and you acheive the golden "Atlas Shrugged" society, wouldn't such a society create exactly the conditions to engender maximal mutational load?
Of course, you could exile the non-dark-elf children, but this seems like a non-starter because what parent would accept such a policy? Naturally, the non-dark-elf children will intermarry, and you're a hop, skip, and a step from the degeneracy from which you started.
You might appeal to embryo selection, but I don't think science has reached the point to which you could simultaneously select for IQ, non-leftism, and non-obesity. And if science were to reach such a state, then the appropriate reaction would be to encourage (or force?) all parents to select across these characteristics, such that we could move all of humanity forward, not just a select few.
Fascinating idea, would love to hear more of your thoughts on this subject.
In my opinion, any reasonable definition of Elves should include the populations of China, Japan, Korea, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia (and Singapore+Hong Kong).
I just trippled the Elf population. You're welcome.
I'm not sure if this is 100% Tolkien-based but why *dark* elves and not Light or HIGH elves?
Not only is it more appropriate, but "dark elves" might give brownies the wrong idea.
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Calaquendi
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Moriquendi
I think with these idea in mind ageist theory need to answer about voting and political occupation age, youth transgenderism, age rating system for media etc...
So the most optimal society was Victorian England? What is the exact timeframe? The whole 19th English century?