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Discuss.

>> No.17225158

No.

>> No.17225181

This book is discussed so much on /lit/ I was fooled into thinking it was worth reading.
This needs to be discussed less so nobody else wastes time like I did.

>> No.17225221

Pure ideology

The case is closed on the IQ-race question. The entire book is a denial against this sad fact which everyone in the world knows to be true whether they admit it to themselves or not. Probably best not to talk about it though

>> No.17225280

>>17225157
Jared Diamond is a Papua New-Guinean Supremacist and cannot be trusted on anthropological matters
>It's easy to recognize two reasons why my impression that New Guineans are smarter than Westerners may be correct.

>> No.17225360 [DELETED] 

>>17225280
I went to school with a Papua New Guinean guy. His dad was rich (mining money I think) so he send his son to a boarding school in Australia. He mostly ran around and yelled unintelligible pidgin. Nice guy but I'm not sure I'd call him intelligent

>> No.17225399

>>17225157
I've been listening to it on audio book but because I don't go anywhere anymore it's more like my nap time book so I don't really know what's going on. Humans moved around at different times and resources were different in different places and people started farming but in other places it was cold.

That's what I got out of it so far.

>> No.17225403

Just another example of left wing denial of evolution

>> No.17225420

I was going to pick this up on audible. I saw it in a book store and it looked interesting. Does /lit/ have an alternative recommendation? Preferably one that is available on audible?

>inb4 read the paper version
I’m in my last year of Lawschool, all time for paper reading goes to case books

>> No.17225441

>>17225420
Hey, it's >>17225399
The audible version is pretty good. Dude's voice isn't annoying.

Also if youre a 3L I suggest a book called The Nonsense Factory.

>> No.17225448

>>17225441
Nonsense factory? Would you mind give me a one second rundown of why I should read it since I’m in law school? I’ll happily pick it up

>> No.17225467

>>17225448
It's the extremly bitter and cynical analysis of our modern political and legal institutions in the united states. Talks a lot about the administrative state. While you'd think it would be politically leaning one way or the other, the author does a decent job staying neutral and providing "solutions." Often it always seems as if those who write politically motivated ideological butcher paper don't have the legal background to analyze our institutions with much nuance. Mostly, it's his critique that's fascinating and enjoyable. I'm about halfway through it and I just passed the bar. Take that however you will.

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>>17225467
Alright Anon, here’s to you. Thanks for the recommendation, and congratulations on passing the bar!

>> No.17225496

>>17225485
Nice! Don't study too hard out there, anon!

And thanks. Took me 3 times lol. Fuck that test. Abolish the bar. Failing by 1% twice only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

>> No.17225632

>>17225221
It all boils down to this. The people who latch on to this book use it as an excuse for basically any racial disparity in the world.

>> No.17226308

>>17225403
Thats not how evolution works

>> No.17226343

>>17225157
Ecological determinism after Braudel is so passé.

>> No.17226394

>>17225157
Geographical determinism is correct.