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| #Post#: 6057-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: guest5 Date: May 2, 2021, 1:23 pm | |
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| I would also add this to the debate: | |
| [quote]Obernigg provided British intelligence officers with a | |
| detailed description of Hitler's daily routine at the retreat. | |
| Hitler was said to favor waking up at about 10 a.m., breakfasted | |
| on coffee, bread and marmalade shortly afterward, and received | |
| visitors including his doctor in the afternoon. The accounts | |
| show he apparently worked until late in the night and went to | |
| sleep as late as 4 a.m.[/quote] | |
| [quote]The deserter also described Hitler's attitude toward his | |
| personal guards. | |
| "Hitler cannot bear to feel himself watched ... guards were | |
| instructed to keep him in sight but to remain unobserved | |
| themselves," said Obernigg, according to the files.[/quote] | |
| https://www.ctvnews.ca/newly-released-files-show-hitler-s-daily-routine-1.568696 | |
| I may not be able to relate to Hitler's sleeping schedule, but I | |
| can relate to him not wanting to be watched. lol! | |
| Lastly, just because a farmer gets up at 5:00 a.m. to catch the | |
| sunrise does not necessarily mean he enjoys it. Did the | |
| aristocracy the neolithic revolution created also rise at 5:00 | |
| a.m. to catch the sunrise along with the farmers? What about the | |
| temple priests? There is some evidence that artists especially | |
| are night owls because they can maintain better focus when | |
| there's no people around to bother them. When I used to stay up | |
| into the early morning hours I was either playing video games or | |
| working on art. Now that I own my own business I cannot afford | |
| those hours any longer. I suspect many children are night owls | |
| because during those hours there are no working adults | |
| around.... | |
| #Post#: 6082-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 2, 2021, 10:28 pm | |
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| "There is some evidence that artists especially are night owls | |
| because they can maintain better focus when there's no people | |
| around to bother them." | |
| I agree that artists can maintain better focus in quiet hours, | |
| but disagree that this implies they must be night owls. I myself | |
| access such hours by going to sleep early in the evening and | |
| getting up several hours before dawn. I imagine Golden Age Aryan | |
| artists similarly getting in a few hours of art before starting | |
| farm work, which seems to make more sense than trying to do art | |
| in physical fatigue after a day's farm work? (When I'm | |
| physically tired, I just want to eat and then sleep!) | |
| "I suspect many children are night owls because during those | |
| hours there are no working adults around...." | |
| I agree that children may relish quiet hours, but again waking | |
| extra early is as valid a way of accessing these hours as is | |
| going to sleep extra late. | |
| As for Hitler, from your article: | |
| [quote]He was said to have been at Hitler's retreat in | |
| Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps between 1943 and 1944.[/quote] | |
| I doubt Hitler was concentrating on painting by then! He was | |
| much more likely working on WWII! | |
| #Post#: 6109-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: guest27 Date: May 3, 2021, 6:16 pm | |
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| [quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=85.msg6082#msg6082 | |
| date=1620012526] | |
| I agree that artists can maintain better focus in quiet hours, | |
| but disagree that this implies they must be night owls. I myself | |
| access such hours by going to sleep early in the evening and | |
| getting up several hours before dawn. I imagine Golden Age Aryan | |
| artists similarly getting in a few hours of art before starting | |
| farm work, which seems to make more sense than trying to do art | |
| in physical fatigue after a day's farm work? (When I'm | |
| physically tired, I just want to eat and then sleep!) | |
| [/quote] | |
| Farmers only work full days during parts of the year when they | |
| need to till, sow, and harvest. If they eat the same calories in | |
| the same pattern (modest breakfasts, hearty dinners) during less | |
| labour intensive periods, surplus energy would be most | |
| concentrated after dinner when the body and mind are flooded | |
| with glucose, which is no longer all being quickly used up to | |
| replenish and recover. | |
| #Post#: 6120-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 3, 2021, 10:31 pm | |
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| Or they could eat less. | |
| #Post#: 6122-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: rp Date: May 3, 2021, 10:34 pm | |
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| Exactly. My mother frequently remarks that those in | |
| non-agricultural occupations should not eat as much as those in | |
| agricultural occupations. I agree with her. | |
| #Post#: 6131-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: guest5 Date: May 4, 2021, 12:22 am | |
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| Interesting stuff. I would imagine farmers would eat more during | |
| the fall and winter months to gain some fat as a protection | |
| against colder weather, no? Is there evidence that neolithic | |
| peoples crafted winter clothing at all, or did they stay inside | |
| mostly near fires? (Even in a warmer climate region a drop of | |
| ten degrees will still feel cold to a person that lives in that | |
| region year round will it not?) | |
| #Post#: 6142-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: guest27 Date: May 4, 2021, 6:03 am | |
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| [quote author=NuminousSun link=topic=85.msg6131#msg6131 | |
| date=1620105768] | |
| Interesting stuff. I would imagine farmers would eat more during | |
| the fall and winter months to gain some fat as a protection | |
| against colder weather, no? Is there evidence that neolithic | |
| peoples crafted winter clothing at all, or did they stay inside | |
| mostly near fires? (Even in a warmer climate region a drop of | |
| ten degrees will still feel cold to a person that lives in that | |
| region year round will it not?) | |
| [/quote] | |
| I question whether we'd insulate ourselves with fat or just rev | |
| up our metabolism to increase heat production, since the body | |
| preferentially burns excess carbohydrates as heat and excitement | |
| rather than converting them to fat (de novo lipogenesis is | |
| notoriously inefficient). In any case, excess calories are | |
| already being used, so you'd need to intentionally eat more just | |
| so you can make art, or happen to have a hearty appetite | |
| (gorging is a hunter-gatherer trait) and spontaneously use that | |
| energy artistically. | |
| But we're talking as if artists in the Neolithic were equally | |
| farmers. A hallmark of farming was that it created surplus which | |
| allowed for specialization. Art also doesn't require as many | |
| calories as physical labour, so instead of eating more, artists | |
| could choose to eat less in exchange for working less. The | |
| carbohydrate-rich diet of farming societies would be ideal for | |
| artists and thinkers in terms of caloric efficiency, since the | |
| brain disproportionately prefers glucose compared to the | |
| muscles. | |
| #Post#: 6572-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: rp Date: May 21, 2021, 12:15 am | |
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| I wanted to point out that Autism seems to be a different | |
| phenomenon (and hence would have evolved under different | |
| selective pressure) than ADHD. Autistic kids are usually ones | |
| who are only capable of doing the same activity for a long | |
| period of time, while they are unable to deal with multitasking. | |
| This is in contrast to ADHD kids, who are unable to do the same | |
| activity for a long period of time. | |
| What do you think? | |
| #Post#: 6640-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: Zea_mays Date: May 23, 2021, 5:10 pm | |
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| I think "autism" is such a broad spectrum and seems to consist | |
| of many different root causes manifesting with broadly similar | |
| 'symptoms', that it is useless to talk about the diagnosis as a | |
| single cohesive thing. Some people diagnosed with autism are so | |
| retarded that they are unable to understand/express many | |
| emotions and have severe difficulty learning things. Others seem | |
| to be somewhat normal people who fall into the extreme of | |
| "nerdy" personality traits, with normal intelligence but | |
| difficulty with social matters. Others still have been suggested | |
| to be "hyper-empaths" who are so perceptive of emotions and | |
| social matters that they become emotionally-overloaded and | |
| short-circuit. This outwardly manifests in symptoms that seem | |
| similar to the individuals who genuinely are unable to | |
| understand emotions. | |
| Others may be diagnosed with autism because they do not comply | |
| with Western cultural and psychological standards. (For example, | |
| in many cultures it is discouraged or even considered an extreme | |
| taboo to make eye contact with people for various reasons, but | |
| apparently this is considered a major 'symptom' of autism. | |
| ...Or, you know, the child has been so traumatized by their | |
| parents/adults that they try to avoid initiating contact with | |
| them at all costs by avoiding eye contact). | |
| I think this is similar to ADHD to some extent as well. There | |
| may be evolutionary causes for hunters and herders to have | |
| evolved ADHD, but kids are also diagnosed with ADHD simply | |
| because they get bored as hell by the Western school system, and | |
| instead of adapting the system to the kids, they drug the kids | |
| so they comply with the system. | |
| (For reference, here's a study about how ADHD could benefit | |
| herders as well. I think there are other articles on this | |
| subject also.) | |
| https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14100-did-hyperactivity-evolve-as-a-surv… | |
| I recall reading a study which examined brainwave scans, which | |
| determined that a disease as uncontroversial as schizophrenia is | |
| actually something like 7 different things that all express | |
| somewhat similar symptoms, but have different root causes in the | |
| brain. Things like ADHD and autism, which are much more complex | |
| and have a broader range of symptoms, likely have many more root | |
| causes. | |
| #Post#: 9235-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Non-Aryan ADHD | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 5, 2021, 9:52 pm | |
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| Our enemies posted this first, so I will repost: | |
| https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/55970/VDARE-nobel.jpg | |
| They even included a second picture: | |
| https://assets2.rappler.com/2021/10/david-julius-ardem-patapoutian-ls-163334157… | |
| Recall from the top post in this topic: | |
| [quote]Enjoys new ideas, excitement and �the hunt.�[/quote] | |
| https://vdare.com/posts/first-2021-nobel-awarded-will-the-hard-science-nobels-f… | |
| [quote]�When you find a field that�s not well understood,� he | |
| said, �it�s a great opportunity to dig in.�[/quote] | |
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