#DavidAttenborough annoys me, because he's had an extremely privileged life at the expense of his own race & of our planet's biodiversity he has devoted much of his life to documenting.

He doesn't recognise this, of course, but means well, dissolving my annoyance into sadness.

Of course, he has hope for the future, because to recognise the truth would destroy his self-image as a fabulously successful individual.

The truth is that he & the White elite he belongs to have totally fucked up. https://t.co/y0Oz9JeR2y
What does this have to do with Race (the fact that #DavidAttenborough is White), you ask?

Race is our largest kinship group, contempt for which lies at the heart of our civilisation's self-destructiveness. You can't truly care about anything, if you don't also care about that.
As a biologist, of all people, David Attenborough should recognise this, & how civilisation perverts & corrupts evolved human nature into prioritising personal POWER & advantage over kinship, but like #RichardDawkins & all the others, he fails to do so.
Why this failure, even of evolutionary biologists, to recognise the importance of kinship?

1) The state (#BigBrother) has always demanded that we prioritise loyalty to itself over kin.

2) The bonds of kinship are TRIBAL, which, in overreaction to Nazi tribalism, is demonised.
This is why our elites, who are necessarily beholden to the state (as are we ALL), have embraced the ideology of White racial self-denial & self-contempt, which now dominates the West, esp. it seems, in Britain, France & America & is behind woke #AntiRacism = #AntiWhiteism.
The Nazis manipulated & abused German tribalism for their own evil purposes, which demonising human tribalism itself was a misconceived, knee-jerk, #NeverAgain response to, that is now paving the way to hell. https://t.co/KwEBwadWCf
We need to UNDERSTAND human tribalism, along with the importance of kinship & race, & learn how to work with them in a rational & civilised fashion, if we want to create the just, humane & sustainable societies on which our very survival depends.
It is no coincidence that most of the world's multi-millionaires & billionaires are White, at a time when their own race is in steep decline & within a few generations will have been replaced by other races, & by a plundered & spoiled planet. #GreatReplacement #WhiteSelfGenocide

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Excited we finally have a draft of this paper, which attempts to provide a 'unifying theory' of the long economic divergence between the Middle East & Western Europe

As we see it, there are 3 recent theories that hit on important aspects of the divergence...

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One set of theories focus on the legitimating power of Islam (Rubin, @prof_ahmetkuru, Platteau). This gave religious clerics greater power, which pulled political resources away form those encouraging economic development

But these theories leave some questions unanswered...
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Religious legitimacy is only effective if people
care what religious authorities dictate. Given the economic consequences, why do people remain religious, and thereby render religious legitimacy effective? Is religiosity a cause or a consequence of institutional arrangements?

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Another set of theories focus on the religious proscriptions of Islam, particular those associated with Islamic law (@timurkuran). These laws were appropriate for the setting they formed but had unforeseeable consequences and failed to change as economic circumstances changed

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There are unaddressed questions here, too

Muslim rulers must have understood that Islamic law carried proscriptions that hampered economic development. Why, then, did they continue to use Islamic institutions (like courts) that promoted inefficiencies?

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