More of the Same, 1/27/22

TOO again.

Henry Savage alerts us to this.  Excerpts:

And their striking physical appearance came to be the visible sign of such a noble personage. In this way, blue eyes, blondness, and very white skin came to be seen as good, rare, desirable, and beautiful—perhaps divinely-inspired, perhaps godly.[3]

When it came to formalizing the official gods and myths of the various European cultures, then, it is unsurprising to find that the southern Europeans, in particular, would construct their gods and heroes in the image of these divine northerners. 

...it shows that the Nordic/Aryan aesthetic is not just a matter of “good looks.” It is a reflection of a long genetic history in northern climates, and is a parallel marker with several positive human qualities: creative, trusting, culture-building, sociable, intelligent. The same evolutionary forces that gave people blond hair, blue eyes, and white skin also gave them a number of salutary virtues.

And then we can look at entire nations. Not long ago, Lynn and Meisenberg (2010) calculated average IQs for 108 countries. Looking just within Europe, we find a significant difference between the four Nordic nations (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark) and, for example, four south-European nations (Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal); the former average 99, and latter 95. Not a huge difference, but still significant.[16] Once again, this is in line with our expectations.

The blue-eyed blonds were smarter, more skilled, more industrious, and more robust.  They were more creative.  They were idealistic and altruistic.  They knew how to build and sustain civilizations.  They were, in short, better people.

But, of course, any observation of "movement" Nordicism and affirmative action is just my "insanity" and "paranoia."

If only the High Trusters would apply these standards with respect to their obsession with Oriental females. But, alas....Rosie and the Kids!

Gaston from Gab comments:

What is absolutely mindboggling is the fact that even a cursory knowledge about Greek mythology (which would later lend its imagery to the Romans) would refute such a delusional claim, as there were more dark haired and eyed gods than fair haired and eyed gods.

Even more embarassing is that actually ancient Greeks did write about their "racial ideal" in various works on physiognomy (as everyone with a cursory knowledge about such topics would or ought to know) and it wasn't blond and blue eyed, rather it was medium brown haired and eyed, not surprising for a folk almost obsessed with the golden mean ( I am referring to Adamantius's passage often mistranslated to forward nordic revisionism).

On the other hand it is indeed true they also referred to themselves as having white skin, but it's not surprising to anyone that knows how southern Europeans look like (though it seems this isn't the case for many people in der movement).

The mention of fair traits as blue eyes and blond hair isn't rare at all in the ancient literature but again anyone that has taken a stroll even in the very outskirts of Europe knows that neither are they rare in those places, so by analogy and by the results of archeogenetics it is safe to assume fair traits weren't rare in ancient Greece either (a minority but still a sizeable minority), thus the most obvious explanations is that blond and/or blue eyed gods weren't modelled after nordics but trivially after the traits some Greeks had.

I agree.

Getting back to Dalton's essay, I can assume that my critics will respond to my post here by asking what the problem is. They will aver that Dalton is simply expressing opinions and preferences, interpreting ancient authors, and citing some IQ data.  What's the big deal?  Why are swarthoids so "over-sensitive?"

Now, true, Dalton's essay, in isolation, is not a big deal at all, and is not even worth mentioning, apart from perhaps ridiculing it (or commenting as Gaston has done).  However, it is not "in isolation." It is yet another in an endless series of examples of Der Movement's views on these issues, the fundamental fossilized dogma expressed in numberless "movement" books, texts, articles, comments and commentaries, videos, statements, etc. going back to Der Movement's very beginning. These attitudes are the core of why Der Movement has a rigid ethnic affirmative action program that elevates inept idiots and grifters to positions of leadership while rejecting others who are objectively more qualified, it is the reason why White ethnics (particularly Southern Europeans but many Eastern Europeans as well) are eschewed and/or treated with contempt, leading those people to become alienated from pro-White activism, it is part of the endless litany of ethnic fetishism that led to Sallis' Law as well as to The Hermansson Humiliation. So, no, the Dalton piece is not just an isolated opinion piece, but it an expression of one of the (if not the primary) fundamental problems Der Movement has. It is another "brick in the wall" that shuts out the ethnics, it is another pillar of the affirmative action program, it is another statement of Der Movement's intra-European hierarchy and its expectation that White ethnics will play the fool and be content with a degraded, subaltern, second-class (if at that) status.