Hey Didactic Mind,

I hope you are doing well man. Man I about the podcast we did and how much change afterwards.

Anyway I have question and this is more in regards to intelligence, marriage and North East Asian Males. Do you think there is such a thing as over thinking it in terms of getting marry and having children. The reason pointed to NE Asian males is in part due to their low birth rates, which of course has a number of factors. But I must say one thing I notice with a lot of NE Asians is the low risk taking and concern about all sort of future possibilities. If we simply looked at IQ Asia should be ahead of the West in terms of innovation but it isn’t, I put it in part of the reason of bell curve being narrower but also the ideas of not rocking the boat.
How this relates to the birth rate and marriage for NE Asian and I might add European countries beside Western (Britain, Germany, France) , is that they are doing marriage wrong for their people. Post WW2, these nation have taken a western view on relationship and it doesn’t work for them, better would be the old ways of arrange marriages, not because some individuals can not sort themselves but the collective as a whole can not, since the ideas is built for a different set of people. The average Chinese, Japanese, and Korean man and woman is more lost today. If they went back to Parents organizing their marriages (in the case of China ban sex selected abortions), they would be more healthier and the men would be less stuck in their own heads, the females less bombard with choices. Add that if girls get taught that beaty disappears, would make them less likely to want to leave the man.
Even in Europe, those ideas are Western and more towards the Anglo-Saxons, what might work in England, doesn’t work for Italy and work even less so in Eastern Europe, yet we try to fit a squad into a circle. Anyway just a thought.