I'm glad to know someone else here worries about that, Harry. Selma
----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Selma Singer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Ray Evans Harrell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Keith Hudson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Harry Pollard'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: RE: Over and under pop (was More hardwiring) > Selma, > > As do we both. > > Harry > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Selma Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:17 AM > To: Harry Pollard; 'Ray Evans Harrell'; 'Keith Hudson'; 'Harry > Pollard' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Over and under pop (was More hardwiring) > > > Harry, > > As you may or may not remember from messages I have posted in the > very distant past on this list, I worry less about our being > overwhelmed with stupid poor people and more about all the > geniuses that are lost because simply because they are born into > poverty and remain there. > > Selma > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Harry Pollard > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Selma Singer' <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; > 'Ray Evans Harrell' <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; 'Keith Hudson' > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; 'Harry Pollard' > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:19 PM > Subject: Over and under pop (was More hardwiring) > > Selma, > > People who worry about such things are often vocal about > the failure of the West to maintain their populations. Also, they > relate the fecundity of the "lower classes" (and by implication > the intellectually challenged classes) to the childless, or > single child families of the professional classes. > > Wasn't it Murray with his "Bell curve" who warned us all > of the dire consequences of a future in which the less able in > every way would be increasing in numbers, even as the > intellectually brilliant people were diminishing and perhaps > dying out. Science-fiction writers tend to be futurists. You may > remember me mentioning "The Marching Morons" - with which more > than 50 years ago Kornbluth entertainingly brought this future to > our attention. > > However, this is something that governments, countries, > economies, are concerned with. All of them try to manipulate us, > and worrying about a diminishing population takes its place > beside worrying about an increasing population. > > Harry > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Selma > Singer > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 12:57 PM > To: Harry Pollard; 'Ray Evans Harrell'; 'Keith Hudson'; > 'Harry Pollard' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] More hardwiring. > > > Gosh, Harry, I didn't think that maintaining a population > was a problem for any society today. > > Selma > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
