Why is Somalia such a horrible country?
Look, here's the simple facts: Somalis have developed, through thousands of years, a way of life that worked for us. Unfortunately, because of geography, genetics, and perhaps other reasons, a significant portion of the rest of the non-black african world developed ways of living that are superior.
Somalis -- and the rest of black africa -- could any day be recolonized by the West, or colonized by China, and there is nothing black africans can do about it. Luckily, China, right now, doesn't care to colonize Africa, and the West isn't heartless anymore in that fashion.
We Somalis largely act according to animal-like instinct. There is nothing more animal like than tribalism, and tribalism is basically our whole existence -- not a mere part, but the substantial element defining our lives.
The West, however, largely acts according to Reason. It's children are raised in such a way as to look at the world through the spectacles of Reason -- and I would say the same is true, to a somewhat lesser extent, in Asia. If a society behaves largely according Reason, it will be undeniably superior to a society organized according to religion or not organized according to anything at all.
The problem is that in order to set up a society according to the dictates of Reason, you need a lot of smart people. Unfortunately it could be the case that black Africa lacks enough smart people to establish a society comparable to what the West and Asia have achieved.
It isn't that the average black African is stupid, but that Africa simply lacks the sort of smart people and geniuses that could be revolutionary leaders.
Really smart people tend to constitute the "creative class" that a society needs to flourish -- architects, engineers, scientists, writers, and so in.
In the West, the average IQ is 100. Just 14% of people in the West have an IQ higher than 115, and just 2% have an IQ higher than 130. That 14% -- and among them that 2% with an IQ greater than 130 -- are the people for whom we depend on nearly everything: to be inventors, to be doctors, to be architects, to be leaders, to be business creators, to be lawyers, to be engineers, and so on.
Most importantly, we need them to establish and care about the rule of law.
Suppose -- just suppose -- that black Africa lacks enough such smart people. Again, it's not that the AVERAGE black african is mentally retarded but that there just aren't enough smart people in his society. Not just the inventors and the business creators but also the sort of smart people who can establish and lead their people into creating a society based on the rule of law.
Naturally, the result is the sort of chaotic, hellish and unlivable (hence why we emigrate) society that constitutes black Africa.
It's time we Somalis -- and I say all black people -- to perhaps acknowledge the possibility that we are mentally disadvantaged in some very important ways.
