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What is the best metric to measure cultural decay?

Ffschmidt •
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I am not a scientist or theoretician or even a member of the HBD community. I am a practical person who seeks to uderstand things for my own practical goals. One useful goal is having a metric to give me an idea of what societies may be good, and therefore worth visiting or living in.

I believe that the best metric to measure cultural decay is the illegitimacy rate, and I will explain why. This metric certainly isn’t perfect, but no metric is. If you can think of a better metric, please tell me about it.

It is widely known that good culture have stable families. This has certainly been true historically. Breakdown of families correlates with cultural decay. Clearly the illegitimacy rate is an indicator of the breakdown of families. But all this is a standard conservative argument. I have a stronger argument.

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Leon Voss • • edited
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It’s highly subjective and multi-dimensional. Korea scores well on illegitimacy but I would much rather live in France than Korea. For absolute quality I would measure average IQ, feminism index, maybe some kind of government quality (how just are the laws, including tax rates and what they fund as well as moral laws), a marriage index including median age of marriage, median age ratio, divorce rate, TFR, etc. Korea does somewhat poorly when you combine all of these, especially when you take the position that the true Korean IQ is like 94, and their governments are tyrannical and unjust, in multiple ways but especially in education policy. Their governments actually come from their race and if anything the North government is less imposed by the outside than the South. Would you like to live in North Korea? They are obviously not a great race. Japan is a bit better than Korea on all metrics but Europe is better than Japan in most areas.

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