AFKAN NOW AND WHAT WE DON'T KNOW YET | 2008-11-18
The issue of how culture goes to seed in Race - a big issue, for obvious reasons - just got a big kick forward.
See this:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/60/95O56/index.xml?section=topstories
In essence, they are defining the actual mechanism of epigenetics - a term that is widely used, and misused.
The genetic component of Human evolution just took a big step forward.
These, and other developments, are happening at a rate undreamt of by our ancestors.
I'll state this again:
Homo Novus will walk the Earth by the turn of the next century, and just might look at us as we do at house pets.
The Race Issue just took first place, in all realms of development, and no one - publicly - outside this blog seems to even both to care, much less try to understand.
Damn, but I feel like The Gods are looking at the Obama Coronation, and are saying, "Just wait. WE control The Long Game."
Fine.
While the exact point AFKAN raises here is worth discussion, there is a more general lesson behind it that is CRITICAL to any accurate vision of the future: WHAT WE DON'T KNOW YET.
I will discuss that in a new article,