This article on the “elite” is fascinating for a number of reasons. And if I had not been investigating my own family line in conjunction with concepts like Vox’s SSH , 1 I would probably too have mostly dismissed it as “water being wet” because obviously the progeny of the ultra-wealthy will be more represented for generations.
The interesting thing however is that the article points out that even after social purges specifically directed at these people, with full confiscation of rights, property and wealth, within a generation, that is, the grandchildren of the affected class tend to have clawed their way back up the ladder.
There are clearly too many variables to point to a single one as being predominant, however, as epigenetics seems to at least have been proven statistically, 2 it makes sense that certain attitudes, and ways of being would be passed down not just verbally and culturally as well as from the perspective of specific family traditions or beliefs, but also from a genetic perspective.
Furthermore, there at least two separate indicators of this that would be related; IQ, which has been demonstrated to mostly be genetically determined, and morphic resonance, which despite initial outcry by supposed “scientists” has been demonstrated and replicated in various laboratory experiments around the world.
My own personal interest in this matter came from noticing (again long before I came across Vox and his SSH) that my family line, as far back as it’s possible to find any information (beyond my own grandparents whom I met and knew well in all four cases and their direct stories concerning my great-grand-parents along with a few photographs), every time they appear in various historical narratives, tend to stand out for being of a rather iconoclastic, counter-to trend types, with a definite leaning towards bellicose resolution of differences, as well as what might be an almost obsessive trend for travelling to far away lands and exploring anything as yet undiscovered. In short, almost pathological Scout traits.
The fact that by any objective metrics, my own father, paternal grandfather and by all accounts, also both great-grandfathers from the patrilineal line were clearly of this bent, I thought was statistical very unlikely unless some genetic factor was involved. Researching as best as possible, the rest of the family line, we first appear as returning from the Crusades, when Europe was retreating from the Outremer, after holding it against Muslims and backstabbing Eastern “Orthodox” for some 200 years. They were returning via Albania to Southern Italy.
This means even prior to this time, someone from that line decided to either GO on the crusades, or was born in the Outremer and carried on doing what Crusaders in that day did out there. So either a typical Scout decision, or the result of being born to a Scout type.
Either way, when Europe could no longer finance what was essentially an occupying army surrounded by hostiles, the Crusaders had to retreat. After first offering all the fortifications they had built over two centuries to the Eastern “Orthodox” —who they had come to rescue (some 40 years after their schism by the way) and then been consistently betrayed at every turn— and the Orthodox predictably refusing to defend their own lands, the Catholics returned to Europe.
On the way back, my family landed in a region of Italy that had been in a feud amongst four or five families for literally the entire duration of the crusades. So they promptly beat the crap out of everyone and pacified the region. As a result to this they were made into nobility and given the Tower of St. Susanna. Their noble titles were later raised (after a handsome payment) to the first born sons being Marqueses in perpetuity. However, it appears that there are two branches of the family, a gold one, which until a short time ago retained ownership of the tower of St. Sunna before donating it as a museum, who also retained the noble titles, and a second, silver branch, with a slightly different heraldic shield, which travelled North and settled (inasmuch as they settled anywhere) in Venice. Apparently this branch had somewhere along the line lost the noble title, because it was reinstated, but only as Patrizi, the lowest rank of nobility as a result of their prowess, courage under fire and valiant efforts in the War of Candia. Considering the Venetians lost that war, it must have been quite the exploits as back then it certainly was not usual for people on the losing side to receive noble titles. They also worked as consiglieri and various other trades, but certainly had men-at-arms as pretty much their go-to trade.
Despite this, they apparently had enough sense of honour or at least loyalty to not be considered ruffians, pirates, or generally vicious, but simply honourable warriors that it would be best to leave alone. And they have always had a tendency to if not completely ignore all sort of authority, at least have enough disregard for them to not let it affect their general life trajectories.
Some eight centuries of a certain attitude making multiple appearances large enough to warrant noting in history and heraldry books indicates to me it’s a trend. And that is leaving out my great-grand-father from my paternal grandmother’s side who was some freak of nature all on his own.
But every story I was told about my ancestors (by people who had known them in life) indicates a secondary perspective, and it is that they tended to marry to women that were at least crazy enough to mostly go along with their husband’s anti-hierarchical tendencies. And once again, looking back as far as I can, the women from which I descent were rather unusual too.
I think I am fairly objective about this and am under no illusions of grandeur because of it, but it has certainly been interesting to take stock of the fact that perhaps, there are trends in family lines, as I am sure there must be after all.
The fact these appear to be not just limited to physical aspects but also social ones is less intuitive than most would imagine though.
That all said, if you come from a long line of degenerate thieving murderers, do not despair, ultimately our free will is what governs the larger part of our destiny, and recall that God can use even evil as a force that ultimately produces good. Your God (?) given talents can certainly be put-to use for good, regardless of what bad gene you may have inherited them from.
Although I had my own version of the SSH, many years before I came across his more developed theory, we both had the class he refers to as Sigma, and I referred to as Scouts. Which are essentially analogous to each other. In his perspective Sigmas are a rounding error percentage of men, in mine they are the inevitable product of those types of men that wish to explore beyond the limits of their tribes (hence the label Scout) and who when they encounter a different tribe are not only able to survive the encounter, but even to become part of it and thrive and reproduce in it. A small percentage of men must have this ability and it must be somewhat transferable to later generations otherwise humanity would have remained as isolated tribes that would mostly kill each other on sight. I estimated that such a population of Scouts would number no more than about 2% of the male population, but also that it is somewhat contingent on culture. For example, strictly speaking, the English eccentric gentleman or military officer of the 1800s, despite being rather bound by social caste, was probably the most likely place to find a Sigma type. In corresponding Italian society of the same period however, a Sigma type may be found in almost any walk of life, as the Italians generally tend to be far more comfortable with idiosyncratic individualism.
That is the concept that a skill learnt during the lifetime of a parent can be more prominent in his offspring directly. As a second and separate indicator, the same phenomenon is statistically backed up by morphic resonance too.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
