---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : I've been enjoying "Empire" which plays on FOX. It's a very good representation of the politics of the music industry of which I was a part for many years. I've also been watching episodes of the original Australian version of "The Slap" on Hulu+. I'll be comparing episode two of the NBC version tonight also via Hulu+. The Australian version is much more HBO like and couldn't be broadcast in prudish backward America. Melissa George plays the same role in both versions and does an exceptional job for such a complex character.
According to what I've read, human overpopulation occurs if the number of people in a group exceeds the carrying capacity of a region occupied by that group. The lack of civility comes primarily from overpopulation and inequality. People are feeling "pinched" and yet they won't do anything about it. They should be taking to the streets in mass and forming a New Robin Hood Society to rescue the rich for their excess wealth that makes them insane. :-D Non sequitur. Overpopulation mainly occurs in third world countries with high birth rates. It's a problem in China and India and Sub-Saharan Africa, but not in the Western world, however the population of these countries will slow due to the stability brought on by rising wealth and economic stability. Obviously the solution to overpopulation is birth control and urbanization, not wealth reidtribution. On 02/19/2015 04:17 PM, ultrarishi wrote: I'm still a meditator (2x daily for 20 minutes since 1975). Used to do the Siddhis, but the time investment got way to large for the return. Does this put me in the TB camp. Fine. I don't really care one way or the other. Lately, I'm here for the book, film and tv recommendations since this is a pretty damn smart group in spite of the histrioncs. I've been mostly a lurker here over the years and I would hvae to agree that the state of forum has sadly declined. Some issues really get my goat and so I speak up. Free speech is one. The right to know is another. I see a general decline in civility everywhere these days, though, not just here. Somebody tell Kanye to just STFU, please, or get his own show on Comedy Central. There is orchestrated trend right now to try to smear by association. It's a very old trick, but folks still use it because it works. It's being applied to the anti GMO folks by trying to associate them with the anti vaxers, the global warming denyers and the "we never went to the moon" nonsense. Truth be known, it's just the opposition trying to change the narrative away from them.
