An example of a problem this causes: a railway going massively over budget and not being built because the org is full of sinecures. Imperial Chinese organizational pathologies remind one of the 21st century West. We've declined a lot sociologically since 1911.
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Lack of Chinese interest in new ideas is downstream of the extraordinary success of past Chinese culture, which seemed to explain everything. But Western stimuli is changing this, and the Chinese will soon catch up to Western expertise due to their intelligence.
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Being right > performing the social rituals of rigor.
According to this table (Table 3 in Strenze 2007), intelligence predicts occupational status less well in more recent cohorts. In other words, the correlation between occupational prestige and intelligence has been falling over time.
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Blue America's model of the world (in this case, professors, not randos) is so false that someone saying "white college student tried to lynch his black friend" is treated as a serious and plausible allegation and not frothing-at-the-mouth lunacy.
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Know a white male sci-fi author told (by a publisher) that he had to include gay sex in his book if he wanted it published.
This book filled in the hole in my views on how exactly American social science fields were so homogenously captured (given they were and are wrong about ~everything) in the 20th century.
The US naturalizes more people every single year than the People's Republic of China, the Republic of India, Japan, and South Korea have in their entire histories... combined.
Anyone trying to use WWII to legitimize the present state of affairs should be forced to confront the fact that people who actually fought it thought (a much less decayed version of) the status quo was a disaster.
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The Mexican population of the US Southwest was 83,727 in 1850. This is because we decided against annexing populated areas on the grounds that Mexicans were not fit for self-govt. The modern Mexican pop in the US ~entirely descended from post-1900 immigration, >90% post-WWII.
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