tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post8001896899818680887..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: A Darwinian Account of England's Industrial RevolutionLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-34221783770583983502007-08-30T15:10:00.000+01:002007-08-30T15:10:00.000+01:00If this study is right, then in a few generations,...If this study is right, then in a few generations, the english population will be invaded by a gen that forces to go to a mosque to pray.Memetic Warriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04075754592464935296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-22025051912201131432007-08-24T20:04:00.000+01:002007-08-24T20:04:00.000+01:00Larry Arnhart has accurately presented the argumen...Larry Arnhart has accurately presented the argument of Farewell to Alms. <BR/>To expand just a bit, Clark's evidence shows that before the industrial revolution the upper classes produced more offspring than the lower -- consistently and over a long period of time. One consequence, supported by lots of data, was that the upper classes experienced significant downward mobility from generation to generation. Over time, the upper classes repopulated the lower strata with their offspring, while the descendants of the lower classes were fewer and fewer.<BR/>You have to read the book to appreciate the weight of the evidence. This is not some political tract, it's a major work of economic history, worthy of being taken seriously.<BR/>I think it may also be an indication of the potential of the approach to political science that Arnhart is suggesting in "Darwinian Political Science."Kent Guidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119882444127499607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-21801406007402498582007-08-24T19:22:00.000+01:002007-08-24T19:22:00.000+01:00This explanation does not make sense. The people m...This explanation does not make sense. The people more benefitted by the industrial revolution, in biological terms, where the low level people with no capitalistic mentality. Before the industrial revolution, the peasants did not have food enoug to have children. Mortality at early age where worsth than in the poorest countries now. The soaring in absolute population where not due to the grownt of capitalist families but proletarians, that had no capitalistic mentality whatsoever.<BR/><BR/>It any explanation can be extracted from the darwinian point of view in genetic terms, is the opposite; the favoring of socialist genes, that the english people has now. (just a joke) <BR/><BR/>When evolutionary explantions become popular, then naive darwinian explanations that favour moral prejuices becomes more common. Every one think that he understand Darwininm and can explain everything trough it. This tendency ultimately degradated the appreciation of darwinism applied to the social sciences at the Herbert Spencer time. Now this danger appears again.Memetic Warriorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04075754592464935296noreply@blogger.com