I definitely think so. Consider Indonesia. These Malays (shortest and thinnest people in the world) are doing everything they can in the fight against flatback posture (they smoke, drink coffee, eat very spicy food -see the Blade Runner film for a detailed exposition). Those who fail, die. They lean strong bicam, and their people and their genetics prefer to keep it that way. Nevertheless, they are still succumbing to that infamous Tim McVeigh/Sola Aoi posture bc of smartphones (this is hyperflexed, not flatback, so instead we see a rise in pro-muscle transgenderism -quite unlike flatback transgenderism, which is anti-muscle, famously exemplified by Amanda Lear).
Most other countries are much more adapted to the breakdown of bicam (most adapted has to be Spain, or maybe Israel bc high TFR -see writing direction theory re: Israel). Bolivia would be in the exact same situation if it were not for the thin air.
Aug 16, 12:35am: Bolivia is very, very similar to Indonesia, the only difference being the mountains. So instead of extreme schizophrenia we just get higher obesity. Both obesity and schizophrenia are obvious postural comps.
Aug 16, 1:04am: Spain actually is one of the least schizophrenic countries. But Greece (see my repeated references to ancient Greece) and the two settler-colonies of Iceland and Australia are lower.
Aug 16, 1:06am: Unsurprisingly, Israel is right next to Spain.
Sep 15, 1:28pm: Both Koreas are now independent. And microchip writing by the Russo-Chinese alliance:
Sep 15, 1:31pm: North Korea does not work like the movies say it does. Japan works like North Korea, but in secret.
Sep 15, 4:34pm: Will flatback posture be confirmed as the primary cause of schizophrenia by 2030? → Will flatback posture be confirmed as the primary cause of schizophrenia by 2030?
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I definitely think so. Consider Indonesia. These Malays (shortest and thinnest people in the world) are doing everything they can in the fight against flatback posture (they smoke, drink coffee, eat very spicy food -see the Blade Runner film for a detailed exposition). Those who fail, die. They lean strong bicam, and their people and their genetics prefer to keep it that way. Nevertheless, they are still succumbing to that infamous Tim McVeigh/Sola Aoi posture bc of smartphones (this is hyperflexed, not flatback, so instead we see a rise in pro-muscle transgenderism -quite unlike flatback transgenderism, which is anti-muscle, famously exemplified by Amanda Lear).
what on earth is this market about?
@EnopoletusHarding Both Komi Republic and Belarus' were well-watered, so I was never obese, and neither was my mother (my father was... a bit).
@BTE Uh, nope. I now view the genetic B-W IQ gap as 20 points. I am now very strongly attuned to the existence of extremely different ancenvs. The olive oil/caffeine/citrus trick should work for pretty much everyone, though.
The role of height is very interesting. Historic bicam is normally associated with extreme height (Serbs, etc. -Constans, Justin, Constantius Chlorus). Present-day bicam is associated with... precisely the opposite.
I absolutely think Spanish is a language that only could have evolved in an anti-Malthusian environment, the reverse being Mandarin. Which is why the early Soviets often wrote in a highly Mandarin style, which gradually disappeared after 1950. And which is why I am increasingly writing in a more Mandarin style. Orwell stupidly mocked a lot of this in his anti-Soviet polemic 1984.
@BTE The LDL-cholesterol link? That hasn't changed. The advice to abstain from alcohol? Hasn't changed. "Graded exercise therapy", though, is right out in favor of ribcage compression therapy. Pontzer's "Burn" now required reading.
@BTE Yeah, it's a famous topic of discussion. Steve Sailer (judging by eye test) has been bicam through most of his career, so he has discussed this ad nauseum.
The Piraha did not get their innumeracy just through environment. There must have been selection against IQ in the deep jungles (just as there must have been strong selection for IQ in Korea, northern Russia, Scandinavia, parts of England and China). Currently, Norway has a bad education system (worse than in Komi Republic), but a high average IQ.
@BTE I don't believe genes for schizophrenia exist. I absolutely do believe many genes against schizophrenia (usually, but not always genes for Robocop Directive 4) exist.
@EnopoletusHarding However, even among the best trained men, I am confident flatback posture results in at least the negative symptoms of schizophrenia (just like Scott Siskind -a Jew- suffered obvious and severe low back defects through most of his posting career -a classic product of working 65 hour weeks at the hospital).
@EnopoletusHarding So you are formally diagnosed schizophrenic or self-diagnosed? And why do you keep mentioning race and ethnicity? Also, I happen to know one of the researchers who established the genetics if schizophrenia, Pablo Gejman, so you are mistaken about the lack of a genetic link.
@BTE There are no genes for schizophrenia WITHOUT AN ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULUS. This is why I keep mentioning genes against schizophrenia, but strongly deny the existence of genes for.
Formally diagnosed, never once accepted it. I lost control of my body for a month in July-August 2020 -couldn't do so much as reach down to turn the shower tap on. Basically everyone's worst nightmare. I thought it was obviously posture-related, almost noone accepted it. Who's laughing now?
Edward Neumeier's daughter is a fervent advocate against these mental institutions for a reason. I still have zero clue what exactly happened to Neumeier, but he's very, very bicam (and also an obvious neo-Nazi, like Verhoeven).
@BTE I keep mentioning race and ethnicity because ancenvs, contrary to some idiotic claims, are not all made equal.
@BTE Ancestral environments. Mandarin Chinese is the most bicam language. Which is why the Soviets wrote in a heavily Mandarin style until the end of the famine era c. 1950.
Our hosts actually have a huge interest in Mandarin Chinese, although many depart from the traditional phonology. Stevo created a "mini language" of one thousand morphemes (I will not stoop down to call them words).
@EnopoletusHarding Mandarin Chinese didn't exist until the 1900s. Also known as Standard Chinese based on the Beijing dialect and simplified characters, as opposed to the traditional Cantonese characters.
@EnopoletusHarding It was created because of the extreme local variation in language that would basically keep people from neighboring cities/provinces from understanding each other.
@BTE No, Mandarin Chinese existed from around the early eighteenth century, with earlier antecedents. Simplified characters don't enter into it, it can be written with any script (I prefer Zhuyin bc of ease of writing).
I am well aware of the fangyans. Mandarin was just what was spoken in Beijing city and the environs directly to the North and Northeast of the capital.
A Shandong dialect would have had more Malthusian history, but any Hebei province dialect would not be that different in evohist.