tbh people go talking \u201coh, this is just a revival of the same racial discourse we\u2019ve had for centuries\u201d
\n\nI don\u2019t think they\u2019re accounting for the collapse of agriculture as the fundamental human substrate
\n\nLike, for most of humanity the modal experience was raising, nurturing, shaping living things with an eye not to their self-realization but for breeding, harvest, and consumption; purposive use
\n\nThe eugenic-to-genocidal themes of the early 20th century are such echoes of preceding scientific agriculture - you could say \u201clisten as our doctorates and outreach workers teach you to invest in the best and cull the rest\u201d and people would recognize that as an idiom that had in fact improved their lives, made their countries stronger in living memory
\n\nAll the genetic stuff coming out of what Sailer and whoever were pushing in the 90-2000s - haplotypes, epigenetics, Watson\u2019s Bell Curve - has been so marginal to the recent social reorientation around race, it\u2019s there if you\u2019re migrating in from a subculture that insists on having something in that role I guess
\n\nThe themes where I do notice continuity go back to the post-WWI \u201cReturn to Normalcy\u201d, the 1940s antifeminism that presaged the 50s suburban idyll, \u201870s Nixonian law and order\n
\nWhich is to say themes fundamentally about what it\u2019s like to live in urbanity
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