One of my favorite posts pops up in Posted Today, where I wondered if western/white culture only had the cynical opportunity to try (disingenuously) to claim “superiority” because of the dumb luck of geology, not the destiny of genetics. It grew out of contrasting an excerpt from Superior: The Return of Race Science with stuff I was reading in Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History.

It wasn’t being “blessed by nature to have superior genes” but being “blessed by a head start and a helping hand by the nature of geology”.

It was like stumbling into a gold mine beneath your house and then claiming to be Midas.