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 <p>The Arkian view is that modern culture has become intolerable, and that becoming Arkian is the best way to save one's family from modern culture.  I will explain the problems with modern culture, and then I will consider possible solutions, and then I will discuss the Arkian solution in detail.  The name "Arkian" comes from Noah's Ark with the idea being that the Arkian plan is designed to be a refuge to preserve good families in the face of global dysgenic modern culture that is making almost all of humanity go bad.</p>
 <p>This web page has two target audiences.  First are people who already recognize what a horror modern culture is, and want a way to deal with this.  Second are relatives of Arkians who may need some convincing of the value of the Arkian idea.  Everyone else should stop reading and leave.  In particular, anyone who isn't related to an Arkian and thinks that modern culture is fine should just go away.</p>
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+	problem: {
+		title: 'The Problem',
 		subs: {
 			modern: {
 				title: 'Modern Culture',
 				content: `\
 <blockquote>
 <p>Why is modern culture the worst culture in history?  Cultures have a natural life-cycle beginning with a rise and ending with a fall caused by decay.  The culture ends when the decay causes the culture to be too dysfunctional to survive.  Cultural decay is similar across historical cultures and is well <a href="/mikraite/Modern_Culture.html">described in the Old Testament</a>.  What is different this time is that technology sustains modern culture beyond the normal point of collapse.  Without modern technology, modern culture would collapse overnight.  So modern culture is more decayed than any culture in history.  Never has the world seen such a level of evil.  Besides modern culture, we now also have a number of welfare cultures that are sustained by welfare rather than by technology.  These culture are as bad as modern culture is.  An example is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-People-Colin-M-Turnbull/dp/0671640984/">The Mountain People</a> who live in an unnatural environment for them, in contrast to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forest-People-Colin-Turnbull/dp/0671640992/">The Forest People</a> who live in a natural environment and feed themselves.</p>
 <p>If you are not a psychopath, then you will fail at everything in modern culture.  Fail at business, fail with women, fail at anything that involves people.  Modern scum hate non-psychopaths.  Since modern scum hate all good things, anything good you make will be hated by modern scum.  To be successful at anything, you must leave modern culture.</p>
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-			idea: {
-				title: 'The Arkian Idea',
-				content: `\
-<p>The Arkian idea is to form a eugenic intentional ethnicity.  For what purpose?  To produce a group of people with high intelligence, religiousness, and ethnocentrism.</p>
-<p>It is my opinion that these traits are being rapidly lost in the general population.  The next section will go into details.  But generally I would ask you to name one single area that has improved since 2010.  I can't think of one.  In modern culture, everything only gets worse.  Areas that come to mind include music, art, movies, architecture, software, politics, conversation, science, customer service, etc.  The name "Arkian" comes from Noah's Ark with the idea being that the Arkian ethnicity is designed to be a refuge to preserve what is good about humanity in the face of a global dysgenic culture that is making almost all of humanity go bad.</p>
-<p>Most religions are independent of ethnicity and serve all ethnicities.  What religion wouldn't benefit from adding an ethnicity that is highly intelligent and religious?  This is the value that the Arkian idea has for religions.</p>
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-	problem: {
-		title: 'The Problem',
-		subs: {
 			culture: {
 				title: 'Cultural Decay',
 				content: `\
 <p>Here I will describe cultural decay but not its root cause.  One may say that children playing video games is a cause of decay, or a product of decay, or both.  So one can't call this a root cause.  It's confusing because cultural decay is like old age or a syndrome with many related factors.  So here I will just be descriptive.</p>
 <p>The sequence is roughly this:  Religion declines which causes morality to decline including a decline in effective prevention of adultery and this causes feminism and cultural decline which in turn is dysgenic and causes genetic decay.  This long sequence explains the lag.  This happened in Ancient Israel, Ancient Athens, Rome, Early Islam, and is now happening in the West.</p>
 <p>Why does religion decline in successful societies?  One can only speculate.  When society is poor then people feel a need for religion and intelligent people tend to go into religion as the only escape from the chaos of their world.  Once a society becomes successful, regular people don't feel as much need for religion.  But even more important is that intelligent people have many other options in a successful society besides religion, so religion attracts far fewer intelligent people.  Some of these intelligent people become degenerates and attack religion.  Since religion doesn't have enough intelligent people to defend itself, it either conforms to the degeneracy of its time or it simply closes its collective mind and becomes fundamentalist and rejects all reason.  This happened most clearly in Islam where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%CA%BFtazila">Muʿtazila</a> became degenerate in response to challenges from philosophy, and then there was a fundamentalist backlash led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbali">Hanbali</a>.  Muslims have been fundamentalists ever since which is why they never produced anything comparable to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age">Islamic Golden Age</a> again.  Christianity is now going through a similar process.  The end result is a loss of religious understanding as I described in my post <a href="/mikraite/Understanding.html">Understanding</a>.</p>
-<p>As far as I know, the only Christians who retain a good understanding of their religion is the <a href="https://saidit.net/s/nonmorons/comments/9e6z/please_visit_a_mennonite_church/">Conservative Mennonites</a>.  One can see the beginning of the process of religious decay in the <a href="http://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4641">Mexican Mennonites</a>.  Most of modern Christianity is too far gone to even be interesting.  Modern Islam is closed-minded but still retains the potential for a reformation that could make it a good religion again.</p>
+<p>As far as I know, the only Christians who retain a good understanding of their religion is the Conservative Mennonites.  One can see the beginning of the process of religious decay in the <a href="http://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4641">Mexican Mennonites</a>.  Most of modern Christianity is too far gone to even be interesting.  Modern Islam is closed-minded but still retains the potential for a reformation that could make it a good religion again.</p>
 <p>One last point is the relationship between religion and science.  Science only conflicts with fundamentalist religion, and in fact science depends on good religion, particularly good monotheism.  I discussed this in my post <a href="/mikraite/Science_Requires_Monotheism.html">Science Requires Monotheism</a>.</p>
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 			dysgenics: {
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 	solutions: {
 		title: 'Other Solutions',
 		content: `\
-<p>Here I will consider other possible solutions besides the Arkian solution.  A solution means a sustainable group, and this requires that the group maintain the culture and genetics needed for its surivival.</p>
+<p>Here I will consider other possible solutions besides the Arkian solution.</p>
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 		subs: {
 			religious: {
 				title: 'Religious Communities',
 				content: `\
-<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KUCY7XI/">The Benedict Option</a> is a recent proposal to form Christian communities.  This proposal has two flaws.  First, it has no standards, as I commented in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/RTR9K4PGGEICZ/">my review</a> of this book.  This means that it will not be able to resist the surrounding culture in the long run.  And second, it makes no attempt to form a coherent genetic group, so it can never advance genetically.</p>
+<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KUCY7XI/">The Benedict Option</a> is a recent proposal to form Christian communities.  This proposal has two flaws.  First, it has no standards, as I commented in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/RTR9K4PGGEICZ/">my review</a> of this book.  This means that it will not be able to resist the surrounding culture in the long run.</p>
-<p>These issues are intrinsic to the nature of earlier Christianity.  Before Constantine, Christianity was just a religious movement.  After Constantine, it became a centralized religion in the forms of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church.  These centralized structures fundamentally didn't allow for meaningful communities to develop.  The closest was the monasteries themselves which did have strict standards, but clearly couldn't become a genetic group.</p>
+<p>Traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism">Anabaptist</a> groups like the Conservative Mennonites have clear standards for membership.  This is one of the most promising possible solutions to the problem of human decay.  Whether it will work in the long run, I really can't judge.  But obviously it can only work for people who accept their beliefs.</p>
-<p>Only after the Reformation decentralized Christianity did strong communities become possible.  Early American towns were typically dominated by one church that set the moral standards for the town.  This was early Protestantism, but Protestantism became increasingly individualistic over time until it became too individualistic to form meaningful communities.  The Reformation movement that still has the capacity to form meaningful communities is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism">Anabaptism</a>.  Of the Anabaptist groups, the one I know best is the conservative Mennonites.</p>
-<p>Conservative Mennonite groups have clear standards for membership.  And they mostly marry within their group, so they form a coherent genetic group.  This is one of the most promising possible solutions to the problem of human decay.  Whether it will work in the long run, I really can't judge.  But obviously it can only work for people who accept Mennonite beliefs.  As a non-Christian, I would prefer a solution that works for all intelligent religious people regardless of their beliefs.</p>
 <p>Orthodox Jewish groups have much in common with Anabaptist groups.  They have standards and they form coherent genetic groups as subsets of Jews.  But ultimately they are Jews which takes precedence over their religious community, so everything discussed in the next section on the Jews applies to them.</p>
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 			jews: {
 				title: 'Jews',
 				content: `\
-<p>Jews are an ethnicity, not a religion or race.  I discussed the difference between <a href="#ethnicity">ethnicity</a> and race.  A convert to Judaism like Ivanka Trump is Jewish.  This conversion is like immigration into the Jewish people.  The immigration process is through the religion, but a Jew doesn't have to follow the religion.  Plenty of Jews are atheist and don't follow Judaism at all, but they are still considered completely Jewish.  So Jews are purely an ethnicity.</p>
+<p>Jews are an ethnicity, not a religion or race.  A convert to Judaism like Ivanka Trump is Jewish.  This conversion is like immigration into the Jewish people.  The immigration process is through the religion, but a Jew doesn't have to follow the religion.  Plenty of Jews are atheist and don't follow Judaism at all, but they are still considered completely Jewish.  So Jews are purely an ethnicity.</p>
 <p>The historical process that produced the Jews is described in the Old Testament.  First there were the Hebrews who were a clan/tribe.  They were defined by family relations.  The Israelites began when they left Egypt as a "mixed multitude" of Hebrews and others.  They were defined by religion.  And then finally the Jews were defined as an ethnicity by Ezra.</p>
 <p>Many would dispute what I just said, so I will provide evidence that Ezra fundamentally changed the nature of the group.  Ezra introduced meaningful genetic separation by making it more difficult to intermarry with outsiders.  Some would argue that Deuteronomy 7:3 already did this with "Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,".  But Deuteronomy 7:4 continues and explains "because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods.".  So the point here isn't ethnicity, but rather religion.  This is a prohibition against marrying people from bad religions, not other ethnicities.  And then there are Moses's wives.  His first wife was Zipporah, a Midianite (not Israelite).  And his second wife was a Cushite (Ethiopian).  This is discussed at length in Numbers 12.  And finally we have the conversion story of Ruth who joined the Israelites fairly easily after accepting their religion.  Ezra overturned all this by sending away all the foreign wives who hadn't gone through a formal conversion/immigration process.</p>
 <p>After WW2, most Jews left Europe.  The obvious choice for any intelligent Jew was to move to America.  But in America, intermarriage was accepted.  So basically what happened is that all the decent intelligent Jews rejected the Talmudic nonsense and assimilated into America.  My family background is Hungarian Jews, specifically scientists known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)">the Martians</a>.  These people were assimilated into Hungarian culture, and rejected Judaism.  Once they moved to America, they also genetically assimilated because their children (like me) did not marry Jews.</p>
 <p>By now all decent intelligent Jews have stopped being Jews.  The Jews that remain Jews are either stupid or they like the evil Talmudic nonsense.  This is why today's Jews are generally evil.  This is why Jewish intellect declined so rapidly.  And this is why Israel implemented a covid vaccine holocaust on their own population, because modern Jews are too stupid to know any better and too evil to allow dissent.</p>
-<p>I have described the Jews at such length because, in spite of their flaws, they are the closest to a general working solution to the problem of mass human decay.  The flaws in the Jewish system may condemn them to be evil and stupid in the near future, but they are still likely to survive as a group.  Since they are an ethnicity, they do not have the religious inflexibility of the Mennonites, so they can evolve as needed to survive, and anyone who is committed can join regardless of their beliefs.  Their rules of genetic separation ensure that they will remain a coherent genetic group distinct from the doomed masses.  The Arkian idea is inspired by the Jewish model, but is an attempt to do it right and avoid evil and stupidity.</p>
+<p>I have described the Jews at such length because, in spite of their flaws, they are the closest to a general working solution to the problem of mass human decay.  The flaws in the Jewish system may condemn them to be evil and stupid in the near future, but they are still likely to survive as a group.  Since they are an ethnicity, they do not have the religious inflexibility of the Mennonites, so they can evolve as needed to survive, and anyone who is committed can join regardless of their beliefs.  Their rules of genetic separation ensure that they will remain a coherent genetic group distinct from the doomed masses.</p>
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 			communities: {
 				title: 'Intentional Communities',
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 			race: {
 				title: 'Racial Separation',
 				content: `\
-<p>Some may blame the outcome of the story of the Southerners in <a href="#communities">Intentional Communities</a> on their genetically mixing with the local population, arguing that mixing with inferior races brings down the genetic quality of the population.  They may argue that if they had practiced racial separation, they would have been spared this fate.  Here I will argue that this is not the case.  Racial separation may slow down genetic decline but does not prevent it.  As <a href="#ethnicity">discussed</a>, race is not ethnicity.</p>
+<p>Some may blame the outcome of the story of the Southerners in <a href="#communities">Intentional Communities</a> on their genetically mixing with the local population, arguing that mixing with inferior races brings down the genetic quality of the population.  They may argue that if they had practiced racial separation, they would have been spared this fate.  Here I will argue that this is not the case.  Racial separation may slow down genetic decline but does not prevent it.</p>
 <p>Now I will enumerate the problems with racial separation.  The first problem is that the gene pool of a race is not static even if it is isolated.  The genetic composition of any group will change based on selection pressure.  In modern societies, the main pressure is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection">sexual selection</a> and this is largely determined by culture.  So if a community is genetically isolated but not culturally isolated, then the surrounding culture will seep in and this will result in the same evolutionary pressures being applied to the group.  And this will slowly change the genetics of the group to resemble the people around them.  Note that modern culture is highly dysgenic, so any isolated gene pool that has modern culture will genetically decline rapidly.</p>
 <p>The next problem is the failure to attract good genes from outside the group.  Successful ethnicities typically allow limited immigration which selects for high quality people who improve the gene pool.  The racist may argue that members of lower races can never improve the gene pool.  They often use the difference between animals as an analogy.  But this analogy fails because for any important human characteristic, the average member of the best race is inferior to the best member of the worst race.  This is not true for differences between animals.  The point is that the differences between races is smaller than the differences within a race.  Therefore attracting the best members of any race will improve the gene pool.</p>
 <p>A related point is that a race must maintain enough genetic diversity to be able to adapt as conditions change.  Limited immigration guarantees this genetic diversity, while genetic isolation threatens it.</p>
 <p>The fundamental point here is that genetic selection is the key to success, not genetic isolation.  I don't know of any historical examples where racial separation worked in producing a highly successful population, so besides the logical arguments I presented here, there is no empirical evidence to support racial separation.  All of the remaining suggested solutions will have some form of genetic selection.</p>
 <p>Finally, I would like to comment on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right">alt-right</a>.  This group is the major modern proponent of racial separation, and they are complete losers.  I will leave it to white ethno-nationalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes">Varg</a> to comment on the alt-right <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/3oGSkoDevWc/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/yBmMc6h_znM/">here</a>.  Note that Varg is primarily focused on ethnicity, not race, because he values religion and culture, not just genetics.</p>
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-			modern_eugenics: {
-				title: 'Modern Eugenics',
-				content: `\
-<p>The most recent proposal to reverse the decline in human quality is modern eugenics using embryo selection based on genetics.  This is clearly a progressive approach as descibed above in <a href="#eugenics">What is eugenics?</a>.  It suffers from reductionism and is extremely open to abuse.  Conservatives shouldn't play God, and should only use natural selection based on results.  This is the Arkian approach.</p>
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 	arkian: {
 		title: 'The Arkian Solution',
 		content: `\
+<blockquote>
+<p>Be fruitful and multiply</p>
+</blockquote>
+<cite>Genesis 1:28</cite>
+<blockquote>
+<p>Hate evil and love good, and establish judgement in the gate.</p>
+</blockquote>
+<cite>Amos 5:15</cite>
 <p>The Arkian solution to escaping from human decay is to try to protect one's descendants by trying to make them Arkian.  The <a href="/requirements.html">membership requirements</a> will encourage them to differ from the degenerate mainstream.  In particular, we want them to understand traditional religious morals and to be intelligent and persistent with critical thinking.  I will explain the reasoning for the requirements.</p>
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 			scripture: {
 				title: 'Old Testament Test',

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