More on Free Riding

Problems.

Ethnocentrism, collectivism can outcompete atomized individualism, but free-riding is a problem.  Hence, someone can benefit from the altruism of co-ethnics while selfishly pursuing their own interests, not reciprocating the altruism not contributing to common co-ethnic social goods, and in some cases actually acting against the interests of the ethny if that action is of personal benefit.

Thus, ethnocentrism is stable and adaptive if free-riding can be detected and punished. The problem is that Whites currently do not have policing of free riding. Thus, Whites who betray their race for personal advantage, or for whatever other reason, do so with complete impunity. Openly treasonous free riding is rampant among Whites, especially high status Whites, who see race treason as the path to career advancement, wealth, power, status, social praise, etc.  In the absence of a strong counter force, and given the tropism toward individualism of Whites, we can see how free riding, particularly by elites, heavily contributes to White dispossession and the ongoing racial crisis.

Of relevance: Please see this.

The fact that traitorous and selfish genotypes perform just as badly against humanitarians as they do against ethnocentrics, and the lack of any mediation effect of free-riding contradict the alternative mediation hypothesis that only ethnocentrics out-compete selfish free-riders. Although ethnocentrics can exploit selfish agents in neighboring clusters, the self-limiting properties of defection against the free-riders' own gene pool tend to diminish this advantage. Under many conditions, there are not enough free-riders to allow this potential ethnocentric advantage to be widely used.

Take home point: free-riding strategies are the worst possible, so bad that they perform badly even compared to humanitarians!  The idea that ethnic nepotism is “not stable” because of free-riding is not supported by the data.  Quite the opposite: it are the free-riders and their genes that will be weeded out; they can’t even prosper against humanitarian milksops. Free-riders will be so few in number that they won't even be efficiently exploited by non-ethnic ethnocentrists. Free-riding is a genetic dead-end.

Notice that the dominance of ethnocentrism over humanitarianism, and the marginalization of selfish and traitorous strategies, can be explained purely via individual selection, without recourse to group-selection mechanisms.

This is an important point, because the anti-Salterian HBDers would have attempted to discredit these data by suggesting they are wholly dependent on group selection and, thus, "unreliable." No, sorry, individual selection is sufficient to explain the dominance of ethnocentrism and the pathetic failure of free-riding.

Unlike selfish free-riders, traitorous agents have the additional problem of being exploited by the very out-groups they cooperate with. This explains why traitorous genotypes typically do even worse than selfish genotypes, despite the traitors' greater capacity for cooperation…strategies that fail to cooperate with their own kind (selfish and traitorous) never gained much of a foothold.

Treason never prospers. White leftists, White cuckservatives, White “race-realist” HBDers are all headed for the genetic rubbish heap.  Unfortunately, due to their social and political power, they will drag ethnocentric Whites along with them, unless we leverage our ethnocentrism against the System and save ourselves.

So, the literature, based on computer simulations, suggests that that ethnocentrism can be evolutionarily stable and highly adaptive, while free riding, particularly free riding traitors, are strongly selected against.

How is the above consistent with my concerns with free riding?  If those simulations are correct, then why is free riding currently prospering among Whites?

Two issues, one practical and the other theoretical.  First, all that is described above with the computer simulations would apply to normal humans, not masochistic sissified pansy cuck weakling freaks such as the White race.  Are Whites, or at least significant portions of them, so atomized in their hyper-individualist pathology that they are incapable of policing free riding and defective in normal ethnocentric responses? Is this part of the “spiteful mutant” phenomenon the HBDers like to talk about?

Second, I can hypothesize that while, even for normal people, free riding is counter-selected eventually, there may be short term benefits (particularly exacerbated with relatively weak policing) and there may be a short window in which rampant free riders – particularly “traitorous genotypes” - can severely damage the genetic interests of an ethny before the free riders are brought under control. Thus, even if Whites are not so abnormal, we may be in the middle of such a window and, given current trends, if the situation is not quickly reversed, things may indeed become irreversibly bad.

There is more. A third possibility, which can fit in with the possibilities above, is that the presence of Jews in Western societies as powerful Culture Distorters, increases the severity of these problems, as they boost White free-riders by leveraging societal resources to reward anti-White White free riders (the traitorous genotypes) , while inflicting social pricing on more ethnocentric Whites.  Jews may be an “X” factor here- some may argue against this by citing White nations with few Jews that still exhibit these problems, but, first numbers are not so important, a few powerful Jews in important positions an cause much damage; second, Jewish influence in America and in international institutions, including academia, etc., may be sufficient to spread the “virus” if rewarded free riding even to those White areas where Jewish influence is not so immediately apparent.

So, because of the Jews and overarching Jewish influence, the adaptive fitness of traitorous genotypes us being artificially inflated, since these traitors are specifically rewarded and protected by the Jewish-influenced System.  The “state of nature” taken into account in computer simulations is instead replaced by a “state of yarmulkes.”

What to do?  First, we simply may not be able to save all Whites; perhaps our priority must be the more ethnocentric Whites - and we cannot let the less ethnocentric Whites threaten the interests of all. Second, we cannot let the current window of “adaptive” (*) (traitorous) free riding go on as it has; somehow, we need to police and punish free riding and shift adaptive values more in the direction of ethnocentrism.  Third, along with inflicting social pricing on race treason, we need to alleviate the System’s social pricing against White ethnocentrism. Easier said than done – we are in a “catch 22” paradox here – in order to achieve our goals we need to shift the White fitness spectrum away from treasonous free riding and toward ethnocentrism and that requires facing down (Jewish-influenced) System power, but to have the power to do that, we need a critical mass of ethnocentric Whites whose fitness is not being negative affected by System power. Thus, the ability to police free riding presupposes that we already have the capacity to police free riding, which of course itself presupposes that we are policing free riding.  How to break the circular nature of the situation? I have no easy answers in this essay – we need further analysis on the subject – but if there is any way to start building communities of more ethnocentric Whites, and shield those communities from System power using the abilities and resources we have now, we must do so. Starting small is fine, as long as it is stable, and how the potential for growth. But the incompetent “movement “always mucks things up.

In any case, this post outlines the problem. Solutions come later.

*Please keep in mind when I talk about adaption here, it is more on the personal level.  Looking at things more broadly, ALL free riding that harms the ethny is maladaptive form the standpoint of EGI.  But looking at this from the short-term.