Even before the revolutionary breakthroughs in the field of genetics had taken place during the course of last fifty years, which point out to one’s personality as having largely biological subtleties, people used to suspect that individual’s behavior does not solely account for particularities of his of her upbringing. In her book “A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912”, Cathy Boeckmann states: “Person’s unique temperament and personality—had always been a locus for speculation about the differences between people and the nature of individuality. And, virtually since the inception of Western discourse, speculation about the extent to which character could be read from the physical details of the face and body has been the province of physiognomy. The science has a long history, beginning perhaps with the treatise Aristotle composed on the subject. Physiognomy later became widely influential in Europe in the late eighteenth century” (Boeckmann, 2000, p. 44). The emergence of such a scientific discipline as eugenics in 19th century came about as the direct result of the fact that progressive biologists had come to realization that it is namely parents’ racially-biological makeup which accounts for how their children’s personality is being formed.
However, after 1945, eugenics has been artificially deprived of its legitimacy as a science, simply because of politicians’ assumption that the idea that it is absolutely possible to improve Homo Sapiens, as a specie, by subjecting people to selective breeding and racial hygiene, leads to Nazism. Nevertheless, as we are all well aware of – science is not being concerned with the issues of morality. The primary goal of every scientific discipline is to seek the actual truth and if such truth does not correspond to outdated Biblical nonsense, it is the problem of religion, not science.
It is a well known fact that, whereas some people try their best to act as productive members of society, the others are being solely focused on causing this society as much harm as possible, by consciously indulging in different forms of anti-social behavior. The Liberal (environmentalist) approach to dealing with this issue is known for its pseudo-scientific essence, which is visible even to a naked eye. It is not people who commit crimes, suggest behavioral environmentalists, but these people’s “poverty” or the lack of parental care, they have experienced throughout their childhood. However, the realities of living in today’s multicultural Western countries point out to something entirely different – the overwhelming majority of violent criminals in these countries consist of representatives of racial minorities, who despite being provided with numerous rights and privileges that are meant artificially improve their social standing (“affirmative action”), continue to sell drugs, steal and rape, as their full-time occupation. Why do they act in such a way? This is because their genes “program” such their behavior.
The founder of Positive Criminology, Cezare Lombroso had conducted extensive studies on the subject of what determines criminal undertones in one’s personality. The results of these studies leave no doubt as to the fact that the strength of one’s “criminal mindedness” directly relates to the degree of his of her anthropological atavism. In his book “Criminal Man”, Lombroso says: “Atavism remains one of the most constant characteristics of the born criminal, in spite of, or rather together with pathology. Many of the characteristics of primitive man are also commonly found in the born criminal, including low, sloping foreheads, overdeveloped sinuses, overdevelopment of jaws and cheekbones, prognathism, oblique and large eye sockets, dark skin, thick and curly head hair, large or protuberant ears, long arms, similarity between the sexes, low sensitivity to pain” (Lombroso, 1876, p. 222). Therefore, much criticized policy of “racial profiling” has nothing to do with the fact that, according to statistics, at least one out of every three African-Americans had at least once “done” some time in jail. The truth is – it is not only that particularities of people’s biological makeup affect their personality, but are responsible for forming at least 95% of such personality.
Why is it that up until recently, such country as Denmark was virtually crime-free, while featuring the highest standards of living in the whole world and the smallest percentage of truly religious citizens, as compared to other countries? This is because the citizens of this country are being genetically predetermined to utilize their existential potential to push forward cultural and scientific progress, as opposed to indulging in never-ending tribal warfare, as it is the case with people in
African countries, for example. What causes such their predetermination? It is their inborn sense of existential idealism, which in its turn, derives out of these people’s ability to operate with highly abstract categories (their high IQ). On the other hand, as it has been illustrated in Richard Lynn’s book “IQ and the Wealth of Nations”, the average rate of IQ among citizens in Equatorial Guinea equals 45 (when White person scores 70 during the course of IQ testing, he ends up being proclaimed mentally deficient), which is why it comes as no surprise that, despite being officially regarded as “developing” country, Equatorial Guinea rapidly regresses into primeval savagery, as it is the case with all African “nations” that had been “liberated of White oppression”.
Apparently, despite the fact that Christian moralists and Liberal “lefties” suggest otherwise, the objective laws of biology apply to people in the same way they apply to animals and plants. For example, in countries of EU the ownership of pit bulls is now forbidden by the law. And the reason for this is simple – because of these dogs’ biologically predetermined high viciousness, they are known to be capable of even attacking small children, without being provoked. Why are the pitt bulls so vicious? This is because they are the product of intense inter-pedigree hybridisation, which involved at least 30 different dogs’ pedigrees.
Now – what is the reason why Hispanics (Latinos) have traditionally been depicted by classical works of European literature as being particularly ruthless and vindictive people? It is because they are the products of intense racial mixing between Whites, Blacks and South American Natives. This is how Sir Conan Doyle refers to a Hispanic guide Gomez in his famous book “The Lost World”: “The face of Gomez the half-breed, was slowly protruded. Yes, it was Gomez, but no longer the Gomez of the demure smile and the mask-like expression. Here was a face with flashing eyes and distorted features, a face convulsed with hatred and with the mad joy of gratified revenge… ‘Yes, there you are, you English dog, and there you will remain! I have waited and waited, and now has come my chance” (Doyle, 1912, Ch. IX). Such classical description of Latinos’ behavioural “uniqueness” corresponds rather well to the fact that today’s L.A. is being turned into the battleground between Hispanics and very much everybody else.
In his article “Racist Mexican Gangs “Ethnic Cleansing” Blacks in L.A.”, Paul Joseph Watson says: “Racist Mexican gangs are indiscriminately targeting Blacks who aren’t even involved in gang culture, as part of an orchestrated ethnic cleansing program that is forcing black people to flee Los Angeles. The culprit of the carnage is the radical Neo-Nazi liberation theology known as La Raza, which calls for the extermination of all races in America besides Latinos, and is being bankrolled by some of the biggest Globalists in the U.S.” (Watson, 2007). This example, of course, does not imply the behavioural sameness, on the part of all Hispanics. Yet, it directly relates to the topic of this paper, because it is better then anything else support biological theories as to what causes people to act in one way or another.
An individual who has been born with genetically predetermined aversion towards the act of theft will never steal, regardless of his social status and religious affiliation. Alternatively, an individual who lacks the inborn sense of existential idealism will never be able to understand why stealing is bad in the first place, regardless of whether he has been “educated” to regard theft as crime or not. Thus, psychoanalytical approach to dealing with the issue of how one’s personality is being formed cannot possibly provide us with the insight onto the deepest of roots of this process, simply because it idealises only one among many aspects of human behaviour. Just as Marx idealised the economy, within a context of supporting his social theory of “struggle between classes”, Freud idealised human sexuality, while trying to explain what accounts for differences in people’s personalities. Moreover, he came to conclusions as to how latent sexual drives affect people’s behaviour while observing the inmates of mental asylums. It is needless to say; therefore, that Freud’s theory can hardly be applicable to explain the behaviour of physically and mentally healthy individuals.
It is a well-known fact that today’s penitentiary system in Western countries is being strongly associated with its utter inefficiency. The functioning of this system is based on the assumption that, after having served their sentences in jail, criminals are being corrected. Yet, as statistics indicate, 95% of former criminals that are being released from jail, only feel sorry for allowing themselves to be caught, instead of feeling sorry for perpetrating crimes, as it is being expected of them.
And the reason for this is simple – Western politicians in position of designing socio-political policies simply lack a scientific understanding of how people’s individuality is being formed, as the result of the fact that, after the end of WW2, the mere mentioning of a possibility that there might be a link between people’s physical appearance and their personalities became a taboo. This; however, did not undermine the theoretical validity of racially-biological theories, concerned with human behavior, which is why nowadays, the voices of proponents of eugenics become ever-more louder, even though that they try their best to sound as politically correct as possible.
In her book “Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America”, Alexandra Stern suggests that references to Holocaust can no longer justify the scientific truth as to the real motivational factors behind people’s behavior being withheld from public: “The looming presence of the Holocaust in our collective memory, into which context the apologies must be placed, has helped to privilege renditions and narratives of eugenics in America that, ultimately, flatten and simplify the historical terrain” (Stern, 2005, p. 2). Regardless of whether we like it or not – every individual’s personality is being reflected by his or her physical appearance and the only reason why this fact is being kept away from public attention is because it points out at the doctrine of multiculturalism and the concept of egalitarianism as based on wishful thinking, which has nothing to do with the objective reality.
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