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What is the critical nature of the Taker manifesto for Quinn?

Maybe it depends upon the story? “If you go among the various peoples of your culture—if you go to China and Japan and Russia and England and India—each people will give you a completely different account of themselves, but they are nonetheless all enacting a single basic story, which is the story of the Takers.Continue reading “Danger of a single story?”

The penalty for breaking the law of limited competition is death.

How do cultural boundaries actually work? What does this mean in a world where one can move from one country to another or one religion to another? “They limited their growth because for the most part this was easier than going to war with their neighbors.” Why? “Yes. It’s another case where diversity seems toContinue reading “Leaver boundaries”

“True. But all the same, it’s hard just to sit by and let them starve.” “This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world’s divinely appointed ruler: ‘I will not let them starve. I will not let the drought come. I will not let the river flood.’ It is the godsContinue reading “I will not let them starve”

This is why we must increase food production.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#Population_as_a_function_of_food_availability “‘Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population.’ Peter Farb said it in Humankind.”

“Okay. We’ve killed off our direct competitors and our competitors once removed. Now we can kill off our competitors twice removed—the plants that compete with the grasses for space and sunlight.” “That’s right. Then there will be more plants for your game and more game for you.” “Funny…. This is considered almost holy work byContinue reading “Exempt from the law”

What does it protect? What is the benefit? How does this apply on our campus right now?