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[Anonymous No.22749786]

His arguments are somewhat strong. Any refutations? Aside from PC language, it’s shocking that it was even used back then.

[Anonymous No.22749826]

>Early Life
Every. Fucking. Time.

[Anonymous No.22749838]

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[...] of the importance given by some scholars to geographical location. I will not repeat my arguments against this doctrine. I will not repeat that, if the locations of Alexandria, of Constantinople, were inevitably suitable to become major population centers, they would have stayed so and would remain so in all times, an allegation belied by the facts. Nor will I recall, judging by this, nor Paris, neither London, nor Vienna, nor Berlin, nor Madrid, would have any title to be the famous leaders these cities have all become, and in their place, we would have seen, from the birth of the first merchants, Cadiz or perhaps better Gibraltar, Alexandria much earlier than Tyre or Sidon, Constantinople to the eternal exclusion of Odessa, Venice, without hope for Trieste, to monopolize a natural supremacy, incommunicable, inalienable, indomitable, if I may use that word, and human history to revolve eternally around these pre-destined points. Indeed, the places of the Occident are the most favourably placed to serve traffic. But, and this is very happy, the world has other and greater interests than those of the commodity. It's affairs do not go at the whim of the economist sect. Motives higher than the views of must and have president to its deeds, and Providence has, from the dawn of age, thus established the rules of social gravity, that the most important place on the globe is not necessarily the best disposed to buy or sell, to transit or to make goods, collecting or cultivating raw materials. It's the one where habits, at some point, the purest, smartest and strongest white group. If this group resided, through a contest of politically invincible circumstances, deep inside the polar ice or under the fire rays of the equator, it is on this side that the intellectual world would tilt. This is where all ideas, all trends, all efforts would not fail to converge, and there are no natural obstacles that can prevent the most distant products from getting there through seas, rivers and mountains.
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[Anonymous No.22750718]

>>22749786
>Any refutations?
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/guns-germs-and-steel-revisited/

[Anonymous No.22750827]

>>22749826
His theories, while applicable within the confines of the United States, crumble under the weight of global scrutiny. A cursory glance at the world history is enough to dismantle his propositions. Take, for instance, the rich cultures that flourished in Southern Europe, far surpassing their Northern counterparts. The barbaric low IQ Germans( high IQ today through inheritance from low IQ barbarian ??) destroyed Rome, the beacon of civilization.
Furthermore, the dawn of the Renaissance, a period of cultural rebirth and intellectual enlightenment, first broke over the southern European horizon, fueled by the exchange of ideas through trade and cultural encounters. Despite the North’s higher IQ, the South’s bustling trade activities underscore the fact that commerce often holds sway over intellectual prowess.

[Anonymous No.22750871]

>>22749838
Some racist from the 1950s?

[Anonymous No.22750925]

>>22750871
Literally the only people I know who aren’t “racist” are stupid liberal 20 year old girls and men who have never spent any time whatever around blacks. When you’ve spent time around them, it isn’t even a question, they are genetically significantly less intelligent than other races. This is not intellectually controversial information by any means, only intellectually so.

[Anonymous No.22751462]

>>22749838

This is the dumbest argument I've ever heard.

[Anonymous No.22752012]

>>22749786
Immigrants and their posterity
Biology is King

[Anonymous No.22752212]

>>22749786
Same thing as Sapiens
The arguments aren't strong they're mostly made up to teleologically support a thesis

[Anonymous No.22753014]

How else did England become so dominant if not for the fact it has the best geography to project power onto others and at the same time easily deflect power from others?

[Anonymous No.22753033]

>>22753014
> England had excellent geographical conditions for the colonization of India
Kys

[Anonymous No.22753089]

>intelligence doesn't matter but actually 50 iq bushpeople are more intelligent than anyone else
woah i love niggers now

[Cult of Passion No.22753125]

>>22753033
Why do you think America is top dawg now? Oceans on either side. Why was Japan the strongest power in Asia.

Ocean power. Checkmate, chudette.

[Anonymous No.22753148]

>>22753125
Why wasn't America top dawg until the 20th Century? Geographism is arbitrary and bullshit.

[Anonymous No.22753648]

>>22753148

You must think everything just happens overnight.

[Anonymous No.22753713]

>>22749826
Wait until you find out about Richard Herrnstein's early life

[Anonymous No.22754009]

>>22753713
He died before the book was published, nor does the book he co-authored hold any views that appear to be subversive to the West and in fact may explain a good deal of the problems plaguing it.

[Anonymous No.22754194]

>>22749786
Lol VDH has pointed out he made a bunch of historical "facts" up, deliberately screwed up dates to support his ideas. Anyway why would you trust a filthy jew?