Guest Post by The Zman
Minority populations in any society have faced the twin problems of expulsion and absorption by the majority population. On the one hand, they need to play an important enough role to be needed by the majority, but not become a threat. On the other hand, they need to maintain enough separation between themselves and the majority in order to keep their people from fully assimilating and disappearing. Assimilation in America, for example, has erased much of late 19th century immigration.
The Amish are a popular example used by people interested in demography as well as human behavior. Beginning in the early 18th century, these mostly German Anabaptists began moving from southwestern Germany to Pennsylvania. They were rural people, so they settled into rural parts of the colony as farmers. They setup their unique communities and exist to this day as a unique and separate minority. Amish in America number about four hundred thousand.
A theory for why this tiny minority that lives outside modernity has managed to survive is that they have become more Amish over time. That is, the traits that make them Amish have become more intense in the population. This has been a natural counter to the increasing pressure of the modern world, which seeks to homogenize everything to death. As the tentacles of cosmopolitan globalist get stronger, this defense mechanism of the Amish has grown stronger as well.
The theory works something like this. Let’s assume a range of Amishness that runs from one to ten. One is the least Amish and ten is the most Amish. In the early years, the average Amishness of the group was around five. Some people were attracted to the community for reasons other than the rural, separatist lifestyle. Others were extremely attracted to the whole package that defines the Amish community. Let’s assume a normal distribution of Amishness in the community.
Over time, the people closer to the low end of the scale would peel off for one reason or another, deciding to leave the community. The sorts that were just in it for religious reasons would find a community of people who shared their beliefs, but also engaged in the modern world. Every generation, the people lacking the Amish trait would be tempted to leave the community. In time, the average Amishness would increase as the low score left and the high score multiplied.
This is not just a cultural issue. There is a biological component. Just as height is a function of genes, personality traits are also rooted in our genes. This unique sense of belonging was most likely part of this people before they embraced their particular religion in the Reformation. Inside the group, the more intensely Amish will be more fertile, while the rest will be less productive. Every generation, the most Amish of the Amish would outnumber the least Amish, increasing over all Amishness.
That’s the very shorthand version of what is called boiling off. Something similar has probably been happening with ultra-orthodox Jews. Those Jews with the traits that are selected for by the cult rise in status, get married to a female inside the cult and have lots of children. Those lacking these traits, are not only less desirable, but less interested in wearing fur hats in summer. They will be less likely to marry a member of the cult and reproduce. They may leave and take their genes with them.
These populations of ultra-orthodox Jews have developed a natural barrier between themselves and the host society. Anyone who has had dealings with the ultra-orthodox knows they are like space aliens. In fact, they are like extremely obnoxious space aliens, who seem to oblivious to their surroundings. Their hostility to outsiders is so intense and instinctive, it presents a barrier between them and everyone else. Even other Jews, maybe especially other Jews, find them impossible to tolerate.
This raises the question as to whether some form of this has played out in the more secular Jewish community. Ethnocentrism most certainly has biological roots, growing out of endogamy, the habit of marrying within the group. This was true of Ashkenazim for a long time until they reached America. In the 20th century, these Jews were faced with a set of conditions for which they had no natural defense. That is, they faced no strong hostility from the majority society.
Beginning in the middle of the 20th century, the Ashkenazim could marry outside the group and participate in all aspects of society. The result being lots of the less Jewish members simply blending into the surrounding population. First, they lost their connection to the faith and then they lost their connection to the identity. Lots of Americans have a Jewish grandparent or great grandparent, but have no connection to Judaism or Jewish identity. That was lost in the past.
Unlike the Amish or ultra-orthodox, over all fertility among Jews has plummeted, so the highly ethnocentric are not producing children faster than Jews are defecting. The overall size of the Jewish community has declined of late and current fertility numbers suggests a sharp drop in this century. Still, if the highly ethnocentric marry within the group, the result over time could be an increase in ethnocentrism. Those with strong Jewish identity will be the those with extreme ethnocentrism.
Of course, without the more secular and assimilated Jews around to police the ranks for excessive expressions of ethnocentrism, the hyper-Jews begin to dominate. That could be why the modern media age seems to be festooned with Jews like Michelle Goldberg and Ben Shapiro. There are no moderate Jews around to muzzle these people or at least moderate them. From the perspective of outsiders, these extreme voices of ethnocentrism become the voice of the entire Jewish community.
This raises another angle. As America becomes majority-minority, the same sorts of pressures will shape white populations. Southern whites, for example, will probably become more Southern. Those with a strong sense of community will marry others with the same traits and have lots of kids. The Southern whites, who wish to live as urbanite bugmen, will head off to urban areas to die. This will repeat in all regions and over time, the regional culture will become more intense.
That’s not the only possibility, of course, but it is good reminder that numbers are not all that matters in demographics. The Amish have survived in a hostile world by becoming more intensely Amish. Jews have survived all over the world through endogamy and ethnocentrism. Cultural and spiritual intensity, like fanaticism, are force multipliers. They allow small groups to punch well about their numbers, even less intelligent people like the gypsies.
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The problem with jews is that they insist on monoculturalism and insularity but only for themselves while pushing the poisons of multiculturalism and diversity on the rest of us.
Jews hold an extreme supremacist attitude that regards the rest of us as no better than livestock, to be used (and abused) for the benefit of jews.
Jews to a man will fight to impose multiculturalism and diversity on us while reserving the right to insulate their culture from the rest of us.
A good example of this is the jews-only community of Kiryas Joel among others in which American civil-rights and fair housing laws do not apply. Try purchasing property or sending your children to the jews-only public schools in Kiryas Joel. You will be shown the door.
At the same time, most of the jewish residents of Kiryas Joel are receiving some kind of public assistance, much of it fraudulently.
Another good example of jewish chutzpah is the amount of jewish menorahs displayed on public property. These religious symbols are an in your face snub to Christians and others who have been legislated and lawfared out of the public square by jewish attorneys and legislators. This is all by design and is done to weaken the existing social order.
You see, jews are not afraid to impose their double standard on us, even using “lawfare” and the threat of lawsuits as this promotes their primary goal of weakening and destroying the existing social order.
Jews have been kicked out of 109 countries because of their own behavior. Maybe it’s time for 110.
As an aside, Trump’s “deal of the century” is no deal for the Palestinians as it isolates them using bridges, tunnels, and even other apartheid tactics such as roads built (with American tax dollars) for jews only.
Jews are their own worst enemy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-village-with-the-numbers-not-the-image-of-the-poorest-place.html
Wierd link. No link.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kiryas-joel
Thanks Donkey. I read both articles and enjoyed them.
These kind of contributions is what I most cherish here at TBP.
“Jews are their own worst enemy.”
There is a lot of truth in that statement. Then again, the same can be said of all of us.
Der-win.
Zman may be right about a lot of stuff, but so is my brother, and I just would rather do pretty much anything besides hang out with him.
The Amish don’t undermine or exploit the host population – in fact they live in peace and harmony with the host population. On the plus side, they are the only group of white people in the world reproducing at greater than replacement rates. On the negative side, they are pacifists and will likely be starved and slaughtered by the millions like their cousins in the Holodomor. It’s just a matter of time.
Note: this is a white pill.