When The Wheels of History Are Turned by Incels

A recreation of one of my late iFunny textposts in the "Pre-Substack" era.

There is a theory that the so-called “Flynn Effect” — the rise in IQ in developed countries compared to before development — is partly a product of people whose ancestors were somewhat inbred peasants, coming out of their tiny villages and breeding with a larger community of people (for example, moving around their country) which reduces inbreeding depression. Now, it’s something I’m not so sure about. I have heard a lot of explanations for the Flynn Effect, being the type to frequent HBD communities, and I’ve also heard a lot of arguments which would suggest perhaps inbreeding isn’t the issue people should be looking out for. Genetically, marrying your third or fourth cousin is actually probably the most likely to result in more children, and on top of that more healthy children. However, if your tiny peasant village is marrying their third or fourth cousin for 10 generations in a row, then problems might start to emerge. Just to clarify, “hybrid vigor” is probably not relevant in human beings with the exception of very bottlenecked or inbred communities, and outbreeding depression is probably a bigger deal when it comes to interracial relationships (I would recommend this Aporia article if you want to learn more)

Anyways, the practice of exogamy is a common means by which cultures avoid inbreeding depression. Husbands don’t necessarily marry women from a different ethnic group, but they do often marry women from outside of their tribe and especially outside of their particular lineage. Sometimes these are confused for each other. People think that exogamy means ethnic exogamy when some exogamous cultures are actually very ethnically homogenous.

Usually the figure of the exogamous male is depicted as a high-status male, a sort of “gigachad” figure who goes around and takes another towns’ women through his high charisma. Sometimes this is the case, but I would say there is much more of an incentive for high status men to return back to their home and integrtae themselves into a society where they are already high status. There is a less spoken about second phenomenon, where men who do not have much luck in their own social spheres embark outwards in hopes of basically conquering other groups and establishing themselves as a new elite. Due to the danger of this process, it is its own sort of crucible which separates the cream from the milk. Sometimes, men who are not successful in their own society are actually rather capable, and these are the ones who will survive the hardship of this sort of life and thrive in it. Yes, these men are not necessarily “incels” but generally inceldom is an issue of lower status men in history, especially men of low socio-economic status. And reproductive success is generally the most prized material possession of men in history (yes, I’m calling it material. Not as a derogatory, it’s just clearly something phenomenological).

So basically, while the men who fight and win wars are generally of high status, the men who stay behind after the battle sometimes represent a lower element in their home societies. This is why some degree of female hypergamy is beneficial in traditional society, it stimulates group expansion and fractalization. However, too much female hypergamy and you end up in a situation where the “Incel class” is large enough to seriously disrupt the embryonic culture. So it has to be kept slight and regulated by families and religious authorities.

There are some historical examples of this I can think of off the top of my head. First is actually the Indo-European expansions. In some sense the Indo-European expansions were sort of a domino effect starting with the Yamnaya takeover of the steppe. The Yamnaya and Corded Ware Culture definitely were intermixing, but Corded Ware men are not descended from the same lineages as Yamnaya men. Yamnaya men are overwhelmingly R1b-Z2103. The Corded Ware are mostly R1a, perhaps a holdover from a more diverse preceding Sredny Stog culture. These R1a-rich lineages were basically pushed out of their elite roles and left the sunny grassland into the murky swamps of Polesia. They still engaged in cattle rearing, but were forced to rely less on it than they had. That is, until they miraculously conquered the entire Northern European Plain and stretched eastward as far as the Volga

But, this is not the end of it. Because, among the early Corded Ware Culture, there was a much more even mix of R1a and R1b males. Mind you, an R1b lineage not directly related to the Yamnaya lineage of R1b. But over time, R1a dominated (especially elite burials) more and more, suggesting that R1a became associated with more prestigious clans and families. The R1b men moved out to the periphery, and then found themselves conquering the entirety of Western Europe.

But, these are all very vague. Let’s get into actual recorded examples. The most well-known is probably the myth shortly after the founding of Rome. Whether or not it actually happened, is a mystery. But, it says a lot even if it didn’t. Romulus famously invited all sorts of miscreants from the countryside into Rome. Runaway slaves, bandits, vagabonds. Of course, there were no women in Rome. So Romulus invited the neighboring Sabines over, and had his men just kidnap their women and fight their men. The violence was eventually stopped, but the Romans got their wives in the end.

The last example is pirate colonies like Saint-Domingue, and arguably much of Latin America. A lot of people think that the Conquistadors were all aristocrats, but a lot of them were not high status at all. They were sailors. They were fortune seekers. The aristocrats led them, but went back to Spain when the fighting was done. This is why the Criollos of the new world referred to the Peninsulares as “Godos” — Goths. They had Gothic blood, the blood of the old Visigothic aristocracy. The average conquistador, was not so high and mighty. In fact, a non-insignificant number of them were Conversos — Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (or at least said they did) during the inquisition. This is despite the Spanish governments’ best efforts to stop such people from going to the New World. Albeit, these people weren’t the lowest of the low, but they weren’t the elite by any means. Saint-Domingue is probably the best example of this, as it was founded by Buccaneers. Pirates who the French let engage in Piracy because it screwed over their enemies the Spanish. There are earlier examples of these sort of “Pirate Colonies” turning into their own aristocracies or even toppling empires, most famously the mysterious (but actually not really) Sea Peoples.