Keith Hudson wrote:
[snip]
But it's a fact that the natural order of things can produce far worse
scenarios than anything man can produce if we interfere in what we consider
to be ordinary ways. What can spark these off is, quite simply, the way we
choose to live. When we exceed what is reasonable, then nature will hit
back -- and very hard. The overcrowding of cities
[snip]
We need to start paying more attention to the
social structures in which we lived for the most part of our evolutionary
past and get back to something similar to those. Otherwise there's no
future for us.
There is no reason not to outlaw CROWDS. I see every
CROWD as a trade show for germs to trade genetic material,
launch out in to new markets, etc.
Besides outlawing CROWDS, we need to curtail travel.
People can let their fingers do the walking in the
Yellow Pages. Nobody ever caught a communicable disease
over the phone or via the Internet.
It gets back to the problem dealt with in _The Tragedy
of the COmmons_: There are pseudo-goods which people are
mesmerized lemminglike to believe they have to have, at the
expense of all liberties and opportunities for
cultural growth: THe right to reproduce, the right to
crowd and the right to go to some place where the people
who are already there want to go to where you came from.
For those whose cup runneth over to have children to
share the abundance with makes sense. For persons on
a sinking ship to crowd into the lifeboats makes sense.
For persons in terrible conditions to emigrate
to a better place makes sense. But these are all
exception conditions.
Peregrinatio in stabilitate
"To undertake an adventure, one does not
need to leave one's native town."
(Matteo Ricci, early Jesuit missionary to China)
Three things are not possible:
The desire of the rich for more,
The desire of the sick for something different,
ANd the desire of the traveller to be any place but here.
(Arthur Appel)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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