tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post1396150796498044046..comments2024-03-29T14:07:15.567+00:00Comments on nourishing obscurity: [ochlocracy] and the teeming massesJames Highamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-14155418253174236282008-09-30T22:08:00.000+01:002008-09-30T22:08:00.000+01:00Thanks all. The simplest way to put it, Tiberius,...Thanks all. The simplest way to put it, Tiberius, is that it is not as black and white as you see it. There are things to be balanced and weighed against one another in any viable solution.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-65699073655581149022008-09-30T21:20:00.000+01:002008-09-30T21:20:00.000+01:00Be fruitful, and multiply ... :)Be fruitful, and multiply ... :)Sean Jeatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978285783271305489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-53097956920477293732008-09-30T20:00:00.000+01:002008-09-30T20:00:00.000+01:00Aren't you conflating two things- sorry but I'm sl...Aren't you conflating two things- sorry but I'm slightly confused. On the one hand you have the concern with the mob. ON the other hand you ahve the concern that resources are finite and we are approaching the limits of what we can consume. I'm not sure I see why those are logically connected- one seems to be a political judgement (are mobs or large collections of people good or bad?) the other a scientific and economic (what kind of resources are there, what does the average person need and when will we run out).<BR/><BR/>What's the connection?Gracchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06344262838391424797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-71099592057781286122008-09-30T19:55:00.000+01:002008-09-30T19:55:00.000+01:00At the risk of sounding like a'snob', I don't thin...At the risk of sounding like a'snob', I don't think this theory of population control is a horrific elitism but FACT.<BR/>In every species nature usually culls to keep the balance between numbers it can sustain and available resources.<BR/>Why should humans be any different?<BR/>Given 99% of people need to be culled-just look at the sphere for examples- I don't see a problem, as long as I am not part of the 99%. :)UBERMOUTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428848028109037855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-40634555980378970722008-09-30T13:31:00.000+01:002008-09-30T13:31:00.000+01:00That approach James, only works in certain culture...That approach James, only works in certain cultures and principally requires the emancipation but yet at the same time to make infantile the females. They are the key to the population dilemma, that is why rape has been so commonly part of warfare.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-6157728172396349872008-09-30T13:07:00.000+01:002008-09-30T13:07:00.000+01:00The key is Britains population. We can't do much a...The key is Britains population. We can't do much about the rest of the world.RobWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02255978974948870928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-45262028506602491182008-09-30T12:18:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:18:00.000+01:00By the way, is the solution to raise the quality o...By the way, is the solution to raise the quality of life of the economically lowest, high population producing peoples in order to, over one gneration or two, sociologically reduce the number of kids they have?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-86502944164913032442008-09-30T12:16:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:16:00.000+01:00Ochlocracy sounds like the study of Scottish cultu...Ochlocracy sounds like the study of Scottish culture.<BR/><BR/>I can remember feeling stupid asking someone who had a bag from the Institute of Tribology some social anthropology questions. He was a mechanical engineer.Colin Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991363859883869289noreply@blogger.com