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The Secret to Long Life: “Right Tribe”
In this video, speaker Dan Buettner reviews three world spots — Sardinia, Okinawa, and Loma Linda, California (home of a community of 7th-day Adventists) — where people regularly live to be 100.
He throws in some political correctness (like claiming that the Adventists are racially mixed, which I question the extent of), but the biggest conclusion is: You live long by having a connectedness with your fellow humans, as well as a sense of both daily and ultimate purpose. More than drink, drugs and fried foods, it’s isolation and nihilism that kill. Never mind the Stairmaster — get some friends.
How is “tribe life” best achieved? Well, racial homogeniety is an unstated but obvious factor. Neither Sardinia nor Okinawa are even remotely multiracial or multicultural.
On the basis of studies, demographic movements, and a thousand personal anecdotes, I surmise that the most corrosive environments for humans are multiracial societies where everyone’s got their guard up about everyone else — including members of their own race. Rather than cooperate and blend, they scrap and fight. In effect, life in a multiracial society — especially for Whites denied any sense of an explicit White community — is de facto isolation. We know that human racial groups are programmed by evolution to trust in-group members more than outsiders — not because they’re “racist” or morally deficient, but because from primitive to modern times, the outsiders were rightly seen as competitors for resources and power.
It’s not much of a stretch, then, to imagine that a lot of stress reduction comes from living in a racially homogeneous setting. Who knew that we “scary racists” were really just health gurus underneath it all?
The Occidental Observer Blog, February 7, 2010
Christopher Donovan
Christopher Donovan is the pen name of an attorney and former journalist whose writing has appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the media critic for The Occidental Observer (www.theoccidentalobserver.net).
“Who knew that we ‘scary racists’ were really just health gurus underneath it all?”
Indeed, we are about true peace, love & understanding. Deep respect for true difference as opposed to the violent liberal monster whose ambition is to make everyone racially indeterminate promiscuous consumers without any kind of will to high culture.
From the guillotine to the Bolshevik exterminations through the nightmare that was WWI & WWII to the homicidal multiracial chaos that is today. That is liberalism. It is all about hate. Hatred of difference, envy, hatred of high culture.
My vision of nationalism is modeled on The Lord of the Rings: The various races live in harmony with deep respect for each other — The Ring (=multicultural liberalism) wish to dominate all and exterminate all beauty and make Orcs and Uruk-hais from the biomass.
The various races of the world should do as the races in The Lord of the Rings: join hands and crush the liberal demon and then seek their own respective path, suitable for their respective identities and abilities.
So indeed, we “scary racists” seek harmony and deep tolerance of bioculture.
I don’t know much about Sardinia or Okinawa, but I do have, through extended family, knowledge of the SDA church. My knowledge is based on discreet questions and some attendance of church functions pertaining to relatives.
They fact is that they – in the United States – are multiracial, but generally NOT mixed. I have observed all races, but never any mixed couples. The SDA membership in this country tends to be predominantly White, although Hispanics are joining in larger numbers, due to the influx of that group. A common occurrence is that there are “ethnic” churches in the same area, e.g. one Korean, one Chinese, one Hispanic, one Black and several “general” (read: White) churches. Separate, but equal, in the true sense of the word.
Loma Linda is not in my neck of the woods, so I don’t know about that particular community, though. Internationally, they are growing most rapidly in the Third World, which is the case of most Christian churches.