Coevolution between men and women

Wealthy men give women more orgasms
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5537017.ece

Natural selection shape sexual selection. Women who have natural sexual attractions to wealthy men had more surviving offsprings than those who favor looks over money in preindustrial hard life.

However, such coevolution can only achieve in civilized society where personal wealth is protected by law not muscle.

In tribal society, muscle matters more than personal wealth which need to be protected by pure physical strength and aggression.

Hollywood roman becomes reality

Hollywood films had many fictional black presidents before, which was obviously romantism about American democracy until November 4, 2008.

Intelligence and mate choice

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2008/10/women-and-intelligent-men_03.html

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/dn14868-nerds-rejoice-braininess-boosts-likelihood-of-sex.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

But some things never change. Looks were still a much more powerful predictor of sex appeal than brains. "Women are still going for the hunk,"

There is potential flaw in this study. Who are those women in the first place? Are they average IQ working class women?

According to Assortative mating, intelligent women are more likly attracted to intelligent men than working class women. In culture with long civilized history, women from high class background are more attracted to status of men than looks.

Olympic medals and team work

Olympic medal counts show China weak at team sports like basketball or soccer. My speculation is that such team sport is really skill of hunter-gatherers.

Hunter-gatherers small tribes are likely good at intuitive cooperation as small team without leadship. Societies with recent hunter-gatherers history is possilbly good at such `team' sports.

People with long civilized history will be weak at `hunter-gatherer' team work without obvious leadership. This kind of `team ' work need spontaneous or intuitive cooperation.

However, larger team work involving over thousands people needs leadership hierarchical control. People of long civilized history like China will domniate, as shown in opening ceremony.

Spontaneous cooperation only work for small team or tribes, not for large organized empire.

Also it is also true for army. Huge organized army is strong for civilized people. Hunter-gather society is only good for small raiding party.

Solar energy and biofeul

Biofuel is solar energy essentially. Corn or crops on the fertile land convert solar energy into carbohydrate through photosynthesis. Then carbohydrate is converted into biofeul through fermentation. Efficiency of solar energy as biofuel is doubtful compared to direct solar panel since each steps have inherited energy loss. Biofuel needs farming machines of burning diesel, which further subtract energy generated.

Biofuel is like burning food for car with bad efficiency. Reduced food output only lead to high food price and starvation on the earth.

However, solar energy from desert is perfect. Solar panel will produce more energy in desert than fertile land since desert has few cloudy day. Efficiency of desert solar energy should be better than biofuel. Solar energy is converted into electricity which is most useful energy form.

Buddhism and creativity

Buddhism is one of most intelligent philosophy and religion. Kung Fu Panda film has the best metaphor for Buddhism as scroll in the movie. At end, every thing is `empty' or `nothing'. In deed, even universe is nothing or meaningless at end.

To fully comprehend wisdom of Buddhism needs great intellectual reasoning. But such realization or wisdom of universe is also self-defeating in real life. In other word, it is too smart for its own good. People truly embrace Buddhism will not try hard to achieve in real life.

China gradually lost its creativity edge after arrival of Buddhism. People of Buddhism belief will not face challenge head on and progress. In stead, they will endure or avoid problem with mind of fatalism because every thing is nothing at end.

Most creative time of China was Spring-fall and War State era. Intense competition between Han-speaking states encourage novel idea which might bring domination over other states. At the same time, Buddhism was not yet in China.

Politics vs Science

In politics, popular idea win, which might not be truth.
In science, truth win, which might not be popular.

When science and politics are at odd with each other, who is going to win? Most time, political (popular) idea win. Galileo was a perfect example.

Politicians are ultimately populists. Scientists are truth seeker.

Politicians are more likely to change their stands according to the wind.

Scientists only change their mind because of logical evidence, not of popularity.

Victimhood: most powerful political idea.

Victimhood has been a very powerful psychological force behind most powerful political movement, for good or bad.

African Americans constantly use victimhood of slavery to mobilize their political base. Jews often use holocaust to remind people for sake of Isreal. Angry white men also play victimhood to support conservative movement. Victims of discrimination is behind policy of affirmative action. White victimhood of affirmative action used against affirmative action. Tibetans play victimhood. Hitler also used victimhood of humiliation due to WW-1 to generate fanatic support and get powers.

Humans are easily galvanized by victimhood. Playing victim is the game of politics. Even aggressors are playing victim.

The best soldiers and best army

A new Chinese film based on true story during Chinese civil war between PLA and KMT has been out. The soldiers showed incredible obedient to commander and foutght to their very end.

http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/whys/t407109.htm

Epic Chinese film ASSEMBLY hits The Curzon Soho from March 7th


The second highest grossing Chinese film of all time, Feng Xiaogang's ASSEMBLY will be showing at London's Curzon Soho Cinema from March 7th 2008. Based on a true story, ASSEMBLY follows one man's journey in search of truth and honour. The Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War broke out in the winter of 1948 and became one of the bloodiest battles in Chinese history. Thousands from The People's Liberation Army and the KMT Army fought in a bloodbath in between Xuzhou and Bengbu. Captain Guzidi, commanding the Ninth Company, led the infantry unit which consisted of a mere 46 men on a sniping mission to defend the south bank of the Wen River. His orders were to fight until the retreat assembly call was charged. After long hours of defence, ammunition was running out, and the number of men standing in the Ninth Company was quickly decreasing. Everyone began to wonder if they had missed the retreat bugle call. But Guzidi insisted that the bugle had not sounded and that they were to continue to battle at all costs. It was not until later when he found that all the neighbouring troops had already left the field, that he realised he might have made a mistake and contributed to his men's deaths. Guzidi woke up in the hospital and discovered that due to a military re-organisation, he and the 46 men who sacrificed themselves during the deadly engagement, had lost their identities and ranks, and were deemed missing. Determined to prove the existence of the 46 men and honour their glorious deaths, Guzidi embarks on his journey to search for his troops.



Just like Japanese kamikaze, it is matter of obedience and loyalty, not personal bravery. Your job is more important than your life. That is it. People who treat their job more important than their life make the best soldiers.
Here is your tube battle scence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCWmRX9Kojo

Rambo vs Geek

An interesting article from War Nerd: Da Kurds: Boo Hoo Who?
http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=14150&IBLOCK_ID=35&PAGE=2


And the Kurds are willing to die, I'll give them that. Always have been. Good fighters; Saladin was a Kurd, after all. They just can't stay united for more than the time it takes to sign a manifesto. By the time they've got pen in hand to initial their latest United Front for Kurdistan memo, the Supreme Commander of the Kurdish Liberation Front has stabbed his imported Parker Pen into the throat of his ally of two minutes ago, the Generalissimo of the Free Kurdistan Army.

It's not hard to fight people like that, or keep them "oppressed." You just farm it out to their relatives. Most of the time, you don't even need to use your own tribe's troops. Kurd-on-Kurd violence will do it. Which is why bravery isn't anywhere near as important as discipline in a military force. A force of 200 German clerks or Vietnamese insurance agents, no matter how many of them wear glasses and can't bench-press a Starbucks latte, will beat 200 Rambos every time on the battlefield, because 200 Rambos is pure chaos, nobody willing to obey orders. And Kurds, too bad for them, are a pretty Rambo-y group, all macho yelling, counting coup and strutting instead of sticking together. You get this a lot with mountain tribes, and the Kurds are mostly--not all--mountain people. "Our valley vs. the world," that kind of small-time crap. Cute if you're Swiss, but only because the Swiss valleys usually had enough sense to unite against foreign invaders. Kurds don't. They have what the professors call "local loyalties," meaning whatever little baron family always ran their valley.

Following is my thought.

As in my previous post Individual vs group dominance , obedient people make the best soldiers. The best units are often made of high IQ and obedient individuals who have no problem carrying through order without objection. A pack of wolf will never do job for human. A pack of dogs is different story. Only idiot will have a pack of wolf as guards or hunting aides. Thus, hunter and gatherer tribes are never good military force because they more think and function like wild wolf.

When a lot of people find Mongolians are bunch of shy people with little alpha personality, they could not figure out why Mongols were fierce military forces who conquer some people with much macho personality. It is because average folk make mistake to believe individual alpha personality reflecting military strength. A military action is job to perform just as any other jobs. Obedient workers are better workers. Yet, such obedience made them formidable military force when working together, an ideal trait for collectivsm.Only even more disciplined (obedient) people have better chance fend off Mongols.

Third party punishment

More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies

Abstract

If individuals will cooperate with cooperators, and punish non-cooperators even at a cost to themselves, then this strong reciprocity could minimize the cheating that undermines cooperation. Based upon numerous economic experiments, some have proposed that human cooperation is explained by strong reciprocity and norm enforcement. Second-party punishment is when you punish someone who defected on you; third-party punishment is when you punish someone who defected on someone else. Third-party punishment is an effective way to enforce the norms of strong reciprocity and promote cooperation. Here we present new results that expand on a previous report from a large cross-cultural project. This project has already shown that there is considerable cross-cultural variation in punishment and cooperation. Here we test the hypothesis that population size (and complexity) predicts the level of third-party punishment. Our results show that people in larger, more complex societies engage in significantly more third-party punishment than people in small-scale societies.

In Chinese history, surrendered enemy soldiers were often executed during battle because such enemy soldiers considered not loyal to the master. Captured enemy who want to die for his master actually often was spared.

Yet, negotiated surrender during peace was often accepted without execution because enemy soldiers or commander were `enlightened' by negotiator to switch side for `justice'.


Similar third party punishment in ancient west is Alexander the greast. Alexander continued his pursuit of Darius for hundreds of miles from Persepolis. When he finally caught up to him, he found the Persian king dead in his coach, assassinated by his own men. Alexander had the assassins executed and gave Darius a royal funeral.

Chinese Empire

Empire is not single country or state. Just like British empire, Chinese empire should be considered the same way, which includes its homeland states and its colonies.

Historically and culturally, north and east coastal region of China is the homeland states (similarly like Scotland and England). South and west Chinese provinces are really Chinese colonies.

The homeland states are often in political and economical control. Homeland states are also wealthy in term of GPD per capita. On average, with its colonial states in west, China is low in term GPD per capita. If organized the same way as British empire, Chinese homeland states like ShangHai regions should have GPD per capita in the wealthy countries category.

If China keeps together with current demography, GPD per capita will never reach top of world. If each province have its own economy independence and currency, homeland provinces of Chin might have been in the league of developed countries.

Tribal society vs civilized society

Hunter-gathers are living in small tribes. They survive in group. When come to competitions with other tribe, it is about group survival and selection. So in barbaric (hunter-gather) society, tribe elimination or genocide is often rule than exception. The way they compete is very similar to that of wild animals.

However, in civilized society, human subjects are equivalent to domesticated animals. So called civilized societies were often ruled by king or emperors in early days. The rule of game in civilized society is productivity and taxation. Highly productive individual domesticated human or animal is selected to survive in such condition. Non-compliant non-productive barbaric human or wild animal would be rid of. As ruler or breed selector, it does not matter what ethnicity or breed of subjects are. What is really matter is productivity. Thus, in civilized society, ruler and subjects can have different ethnicity or be from different origin. England have been invaded numerous times. But original Celtic blood survived under different rulers as long as they survived brutal taxation imposed by increasing demanding successive rulers. New ruler either by inheritance or conquering often want more wealth than previous ruler. Higher taxation will be imposed on subjects. Only highly productive subjects can survive. Only obedient subject (law-abiding) can survive just as domesticated animal. The net result of thousands year of social Darwin evolution is highly productive civilized (domesticated) obedient citizens.

Ruler's greed for wealth to higher tax to higher productivity of subject creates evolutionary cycle leading to high material wealth in civilized society. Civilized productive subjects are descendants of brutal exploitation.

When English established its empire, it was about wealth and taxation. If local subjects are taxable, they can survive like Hong Kong. If they were nontaxable barbarians, they would be replaced by domesticated species, English settlers in north America, Chinese in Singapore, ects. To ruler, it does not matter what subjects are. Only matter is tax. Same thing happened to domesticated animals against wild animals. Domesticated wheat or rice are replacing wild plants around world because they are useful to civilized society. Corn or potato in new world survive onslaught of old world invasion because they are productive to civilized society.

Group behavior based tribalism is true for people with short history of civilization. Group behavior is different story for civilized people, which is more of loyalty to the master who might have different ethnicity.

In civilized society, a royal king is more interested in his subjects loyalty and productivity than their ethnicity. Thus, WASP less ethnocentric behavior had its histological and evolutionary background.

Tribalism is relic of barbarians. In today, tribalism express itself in form of racism

Agriculture and Civilization

The spreading pattern of agriculture in Europe.

The spreading pattern of agriculture is the same spreading pattern of civilization. Again, this implicates economical basis for well-known civilizations.

CIVILIZATION VS DOMESTICATION

Civilized human shares incredible similarity with domesticated animal. In fact, it is the same process.