{"title":"Edward Dutton","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"witches-feminism-and-the-fall-of-the-west-paperback","title":"Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe archetype of the \"witch\" is burnt deep into the European psyche, recurring again and again in folklore and fairytales. But is she merely the stuff of fantasy? Roald Dahl warned that witches don't always don black hats and ride on broom sticks. They \"dress in ordinary clothes, and look very much like ordinary women. . . . That is why they are so hard to catch.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWitches, Feminism and the Fall of the West\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward Dutton examines the history of witches and witch-hunting in light of evolutionary psychology. Throughout the centuries, witches were ostracized across Europe and often condemned and executed for sorcery and harming children. They generally adhered to a type: witches were low-status, anti-social, and childless, and their very presence was viewed as poisonous to the community. Dutton demonstrates that witches did, in their way, represent a maladaptive mentality and behavior, which undermined Europe's patriarchal system. When times got tough-that is, when Europe got poorer or colder-the witches were persecuted with a vengeance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, the evolutionary situation has been turned on its head. The intense selection pressures of the past have been overcome by the Industrial Revolution and its technological marvels. Modern witches survive and thrive in the postmodern West, still possessed by the motivations and dispositions of their sisters of yore. \"Sorcery\" (nihilism and self-hatred) is no longer taboo but has become a high-status ideology. Roald Dahl was all-too correct. Witches do exist, and they mean to do us harm. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369346040031,"sku":"9781593680794","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/74RjVIkbns9781593680794.webp?v=1789140697"},{"product_id":"the-genius-famine-paperback","title":"The Genius Famine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in a society where, for whatever reason, genius tends to be unacknowledged, denied, ignored or even (usually for 'politically correct' reasons) actively persecuted. For the past four hundred years, geniuses have been common to all the major humanities and sciences, art, literature, medicine, law, politics, the military and religion - yet today they have almost disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genius combines extremely high intelligence with an unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit into normal society; they will seldom want to. Nor should they, since it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, make breakthrough discoveries or solve unyielding problems by intuitive insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut modern society has been hit by a genius famine. There are ever fewer geniuses and modern society has become actively hostile to those we still have. \u003cem\u003eThe Genius Famine\u003c\/em\u003e explores the nature of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how it threatens civilization and what we can and should do to overcome it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377584505055,"sku":"9781908684608","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/trcRN4p-8r9781908684608.webp?v=1789236118"},{"product_id":"spiteful-mutants-evolution-sexuality-religion-and-politics-in-the-21st-century-paperback","title":"Spiteful Mutants: Evolution, Sexuality, Religion, and Politics in the 21st Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery zombie movie has a terrifying underlying message. The enemy isn't supernatural or an alien from another planet. \"The enemy is . . . us!\" The \"undead\" -- mutated humans, grotesque versions of their previous selves -- are destroying everything in their path and bringing about the downfall of civilization. Even worse, they are contagious, gradually absorbing the few survivors left into the hoard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSpiteful Mutants\u003c\/em\u003e, evolutionary psychologist Edward Dutton argues that we are experiencing a \"zombie apocalypse\" of our own. The critical threat to civilization is not so much enemies abroad as it is nihilistic and self-destructive tendencies within our own populations. Dutton examines such salient social phenomena through a Darwinian lens: from BLM to QAnon; from those seeking sexual transformation to the Incels who don't have sex at all; from atheists to those with a religious zeal for \"social justice.\" All these phenomena can best be understood as genetic results of the Industrial Revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman evolution is an ongoing process. The question of who we, as a species, will become is a matter of who is being selected for in a particular ecology. Before industrialization, child mortality was the crucible of evolution: those who were physically and mentally sick -- that is, who possessed high levels of genetic mutation -- rarely survived into adulthood. The Industrial Revolution, and resultant medical advances, brought about the collapse of child mortality, allowing the explosive growth of people who are highly mutated in body and mind, and who would not have otherwise survived. These mutants, walking among us, are \"spiteful\" in the sense that they actively affect the functioning of the group. They generate polarization and chaos, depravity and dysphoria, and even the gradual collapse of fertility. A new specter is haunting the industrialized world, the specter of Spiteful Mutants, a menace of our own making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A ripping yarn, though a handsomely footnoted, scientific one. There is also a seductive, meta-level lesson hidden in plain sight. Until and unless opinion leaders return to a biologically informed survivalism, the West will continue to decline.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Frank Salter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormerly of the Max Planck Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Dutton\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University. Born in London in 1980, Dutton read Theology at Durham University, before completing a PhD in Religious Studies at Aberdeen University in 2006. He is based in Oulu in northern Finland. His books include \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense of Race\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eWitches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), \u003cem\u003eIslam: An Evolutionary Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), among many others.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378722373855,"sku":"9781593680831","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/v98dJkXZsl9781593680831.webp?v=1789261584"},{"product_id":"islam-an-evolutionary-perspective-paperback","title":"Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intellectual gap separates the Islamic world and the West. Muslim children under-perform on most all educational measures, and Muslim societies produce fewer books, scientific advances, and cultural achievements. Evolutionary psychologist Edward Dutton demonstrates that this is not just a matter of genetics, war, or politics; the problem derives from Islam itself. Holding to Islamic belief forces people to avoid analytical and creative ways of thinking. Veiling, female circumcision, the Ramadan fast, polygamy, and even praying regularly does the same, leading to worse education systems, increased poverty, and less intellectual development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat said, Islam has its advantages. The Muslim practices that reduce cognitive ability also elevate ethnocentrism: in-group cooperation. And it is the more ethnocentric groups that win in the intense struggle of Darwinian selection. Thus, Dutton predicts that Islam will come to triumph over the West precisely because it reduces intelligence. This raises disturbing questions. Are there terminal disadvantages to developing cultures of high intelligence and individualism? Might the West need to adopt something akin to Islam, and become rather less thoughtful, in order to survive?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward Dutton\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Lódź, Poland, and is a prolific researcher and commentator. 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