Re: 10 Golden Rules
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Originally Posted by Amorsite
8– If in doubt, bet UP. Following rules 1, 2, 3 and 4. UP types have remarkable internal variability and comprehend most of Europe’s population. If the individual in question does not seem to be an easy case, or looks somehow “local”, one should begin investigating whether he or she is an UP type. Mediterraneans vary less in appearance than Upper Paleolithics.
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This one I don't agree with at all. Doubt/remarkable/"local" -> UP. That's just wrong. And I'm not convinced by the arguments offered. "Remarkable internal variability" is a very dubious concept, that doesn't offer as much as a clue in the individual case. This rule seems to be designed to prevent Mediterranean badges of honour to be handed out in dubitable cases. It's a biased rule on a certain mediterraneanist agenda, the other end of what OEN criticised in "North Atlantids Do Not Exist"; the antithesis to inclusive nordicism, only on a general mediterraneanist viewpoint. It is exclusive and obscure mediterraneanism.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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