Richard Lynn: Memoirs of a Dissident Psychologist (2020)
Richard Lynn (1930-2023)
"I have generally had a happy life. I have only had two episodes of serious misery". Epitaph of a self-satisfied man who wasted most of his life in trite controversy
Published by Ulster Institute for Social Research, London.
This is available online; I don't know if it was ever printed by the 'Ulster Institute' in London.
The life part takes 425 pages. Followed by 30 pages of his publications, 10 pages of references, and 8 pages of index.
Lynn spent his life with men of similar psychological types—keen on 'IQ' without much awareness of the difficulties of describing intelligence, let alone measuring it. Like many small groups, from theoretical physicist to campaigners for animal rights, the same names recur often. Much of Lynn's life was spent in issuing warnings about dysgenics, just as in late Victorian times and between the world wars. These warnings were ineffectual; Lynn had no idea what forces were leading to odd behaviour. He liked to discuss race and sex differences, which were considered 'controversial', though probably 'controversy' was an excuse to waste time while unchanged policies were pursued. He has a few stories on attempts at sexual (but not homosexual) blackmail. He thought boys' IQs increased with some maturity, and considered this an important discovery. And he thought boys had more 'general knowledge' than girls; imagine trying to quantify that!
In his later years he turned to 'psychopathy', another ill-defined idea. But the
Talmud is a manual of psychopathy—child sex, use on non-Jews as prostitutes, habitual lying to non-Jews, arranging frauds against non-Jews. Lynn did not know, or was careful to avoid, all this, despite 'psychopathy' being invented as a category in psychology when the late 19th century planned invasion by Jews from Germany, Poland, and Russia took place.
All the researchers into intelligence seem rather dim; possibly less dim people are disinclined to investigate such a complicated topic. Or perhaps it's an artefact of science writing. But it has to be noted: they aren't entirely convincing, and have turned out to be unpersuasive. Lynn indirectly notices this, and his list of about 500 publications have no focus.
Was Richard Lynn a Jew?
Irritatingly, as with Eysenck, this looks likely, and would explain many aspects of his life, as with A J P Taylor, such as easy access to money and easy apparently upward mobility, and joining the Communist Party when Jews thought it as a good idea. I wonder if his work on blacks might have been designed to help race wars along, as Milees Mathis suggests. Here's a passage:
I was born in the London suburb of Hampstead on the 20th of February, 1930. It was there that I spent my first five years. My mother and I lived in a flat quite close to Hampstead Heath, famous from the paintings of Constable, and now a haunt of homosexuals cruising for casual partners, but in those days a thoroughly respectable place. My earliest memory dates to when I was three and is of being lost on the Heath. Some kindly person found me wandering alone and took me to the Police Station, where in due course I was collected by my mother. This was perhaps an early instance of my propensity to strike out in new directions, which has been an abiding characteristic. The child is father to the man. My mother was a single parent, so I had something of a deprived upbringing. My lack of a father was to some extent compensated for by my mother’s parents William and Agnes Freeman who lived close by...
Lynn makes use of official statistics, for example in alcohol consumption by counties, as a result of which he sates that Ireland has no alcohol problem. Meaning that other countries drink more. Rushton made more use of international statistics, including IQ figures. These of course are liable to errors in administration and scoring; and the maths by which integer scores are made to fit the Gaussian distribution are usually not understood. Comparisons of national income give more problems. So do emigration and immigration figures. And crime figures. None of this is Lynn's fault, but he seems sublimely unaware of the problems. This perhaps works in his favour: others wonder about arms spending on income per head, but Lynn just looks at countries or nations.
His book is arranged by places in Ireland and England, and by years, from 'Early years' to 1944-2018. I'd guess he used desk diaries; he recreates the intellectual atmosphere in his mini-milieu with brief remarks on books and their attempts at ideas. His views were mostly orthodox: he believed in nuclear bombs and power and the nuclear threat; he noticed churches without saying much about them, though he noticed fervent believers tend to be less intelligent than—he dodged the issue; he disliked corporal punishment in English 'public schools', he thought Auschwitz was a mass slaughterhouse, he thinks 'left' and 'right' are useful terms, that Nobel Prizes are serious, .he was critical of many lecturers and many books, a useful adaptation amongst a milieu of outputters of books. But he disapproved of the First World War, though exclusively the British dead. He makes comments on 'good music', which was common at the time. He has nothing to say on huge issues; just remarks on people like Thatcher.
It might be expected that Lynn would list people who'd been overlooked for their views. Arthur Keith's New Theory of Human Evolution (1948) which thinks nations are the main evolutionary unit is there. Clark Hull's theory of behaviour 'resembling Euclid's geometry'. Harry Jerison’s book Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. In this he
set out the general principles of the evolution of greater intelligence (1973) 'a masterly analysis which curiously has not been given the recognition it deserves.'
Lynn's work is rather crude, with hundreds of millions of people grouped together. (India and Pakistan are more or less ignored). Many of the assumptions look doubtful. Did mankind in fact emerge from Africa? If north America's natives came from China, couldn't they have done more? Granted that Africa has a hot climate, aren't there dangerous animals, snakes, insects—why are cold areas assumed to be more difficult?
The elephant in the room is of course Jews and their secrecy and numbers. Lynn notes that in a country he's discussing, known Jews make say 2% of the population. He says nothing of other secret groups, such as Freemasons. But Jews co-operate internationally, and Lynn had no figures for their world population. He has no idea that the US Federal Reserve was a gold-mine for Jews but with paper in place of gold. He's heard of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act but not who promoted it; and the Fed had much the same far-reaching effects—world wars in particular.
Lynn's misunderstandings extended to the problems generated by types like Soros, a Jew from Hungary. Lynn's power plays extend to a few colleague and employee appointments in a university department or two. He had no feeling for the ways controllers of large sums of paper money, gave it out and got permanent inflows. When a head of some college is told to tolerate fake demonstrations, or the police are instructed by Jewish fixers that they must stand down, then that's what they do. When the BBC and TV media and press all said the same lies, Lynn noted it without understanding why it happened. Lynn had no grasp of the invention of things like AIDS and COVID and fluoridation.
The unique Jewish contributions include the fantasy of their God, which has penetrated, so far, steadily. And the Kahal system, under which what's yours is mine (after a bit of work). And killing of goyim, preferably by other goyim. Their divide-and-rule system, in which part of a population is split off and paid to patrol the rest—Christianity and Islam as examples—is a masterpiece of remote parasitism. Their promotion of immigration into white countries is essential to understand, but is not in Lynn. Lynn did no work on any of this, or on Jews in the USSR and China. He knows nothing of addictions—alcohol and opiates. Lynn knows nothing of slavery, and the way slaves were sloughed off as mechanical power grew. He knows nothing of Jewish hatred for 'goyim' which shows no signs of diminishing. Lynn has no idea that Jews
don't want eugenics—why would they help their enemies? Lynn has no conception of the systematic lying baked into Judaism in the
Talmud.
Lynn gives some minor evidence of activity: as far back as 1978 he visited Jared Taylor and
American Renaissance, unaware perhaps of Taylor's link to Jews. Lynn mentions the
The Occidental Observer once, but not Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald's TOO ran a laudatory obituary; but MacDonald is the same type, saying nothing important or useful.
Jewish paper money is essential in keeping education systems under control. University budgets are colossal and probably kept unstably high. Lynn had little interest in money, except for himself. The existential threats of mysterious Jews' representatives explaining to University Presidents that they may be unwise in teaching certain truths are unknown to Lynn.
On the plus side, I only found one typo, 'formerly' confused with 'formally'.
Rae West 25 July 2023
