Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Monday, July 20, 2026
useful questions
1. What would you do if success was guaranteed?
I'd be a writer or maybe a scientist.
2. What would you do if you had unlimited money and no obligations?
Probably most of the same things I do now. I'd live a simple, peaceful life. I'd read, write, walk, swim, make AI art, tinker, travel, date, and spend time with family and friends.
The only big difference is that I'd buy a plot of land and put a mobile home on it.
3. What would you do if you were immortal and had eternal youth?
I'd go to Mars to help build a settlement there. Maybe every few decades, I'd head back to earth for a vacation.
Speaking of space colonization, it's a terrible idea for many reasons. The money and effort would be better used making sure civilization survives on earth for thousands of years to come. 99% of species go extinct within 15 million years.
the dilemma
Often, actions that are politically feasible won't help, and actions that would help are too unpopular to be politically feasible.
So in order to get anywhere, politicians have practice strategic hypocrisy: promise a popular policy and then implement the unpopular one. It's like putting pet medicine in a piece of cheese to get a dog to swallow it.
As a public service, below are some of my suggestions on how to sell necessary but unpopular policies.
Measure: repeal the minimum wage
Slogan: Maximizing Employment Act
Measure: school vouchers
Slogan: Helping Our Teachers Act
Measure: abolish the income tax
Slogan: Fairness for Working Families Act
The magic words are: children, families, working, freedom, teachers, defense, security, fair, smart, care
Measure: cut military spending 90%
Slogan: Smart Defense and Security Act
lying about crime
There is black on white homicide almost every day in the US, but unless it's particularly heinous (such as the Metcalf stabbing with many witnesses or the Zarutska stabbing caught on video), it rarely makes the national news. What does often make the national news are police killings of black Americans and white on black homicides.
20 black-on-white homicides found in June, 2026 — 22 total, including updates, by Kenn Gividen - The Unz Review
Most journalists in the US are liberal and use their jobs to push the agenda of the Democratic Party. Among other things, this involves stoking black resentment against whites whenever possible. The Democratic Party styles itself as the protector of minorities, so they do their best to frighten them with stories of oppression in order to get their votes. Their propaganda works.
The man who wrote the article below ended up getting fired, but it makes for entertaining reading. The gist is to stay away from American blacks unless you know them personally.
YouTube is now filled with videos from police cameras showing the reality of crime in the US. Here is a simple traffic stop that escalated into a high-speed chase and a fatal car crash, all because the driver and occupants refused to follow simple and lawful commands.
The bottom line is that black Americans commit more crime. That's why they have more interactions with the police and why more of them end up in prison. Denying this reality does no good.
Fortunately, some black Americans recognize the problems in their community and are trying to push things in a positive direction.
White Americans are taught early on that racism is bad, and the vast majority believe that it is. It's easier to find white Americans who believe the earth is flat than truly believe blacks are an inferior race.
mensa, iq, and race
Mensa, the organization for those in the top 2% for IQ (IQ greater than or equal to 130), has statistics about its demographics:
There's selection bias since people choose to join Mensa. It says the US Mensa group has about 40,000 members. It has breakdowns for education, age, and gender, but nothing about race or ethnicity. The relationship between IQ and race has been a taboo topic for a long time.
Over at BET (Black Entertainment Television) they say the US Mensa group has 57,000 members and
362 are black. I'm not sure how BET got this information. Mensa must keep track and provides such info for a fee.
Anyway, 362 is less than 1% of the total.
If we work from the oft-cited figure that black Americans have an average IQ of 85, about 1% will have IQs of 130 and above. And given that black Americans are about 12% of the population, they will be less than 1% of Americans who have IQs over 130.
math breakdown
Standard deviation is 15, 130 is 3 standard deviations above. 99.7% of data in a bell curve is within 3 standard deviations of the mean. 1 - 0.997 = 0.003. 0.003/2 = 0.0015 or 0.15%
362/57000 = 0.0063 or 0.63%
This suggests that a higher percent of black people with IQs over 130 join Mensa as compared to whites.
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