Re: Bad times traits

From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Wed 16 Apr 2003 - 04:35:25 GMT

  • Next message: Keith Henson: "Re: Bad times traits"

    At 05:50 PM 15/04/03 -0400, you wrote:

    Snip............
    >My comment re rivers as boundaries and such would be that if Africa had been
    >divided up into states on tribal boundary lines, you would have wars between
    >these states for "Lebensraum" instead of civil wars for the same reason.
    >The problem is not population so much as it is resources per capita.
    >
    >And to bring it back to memes, when things get tight from population growth
    >a latent human psychological trait emerges, which supports the spread of
    >memes that dehumanize those your tribe is about to kill.
    >
    >Keith Henson

    Maybe, IMHO, and maybe not. Jeremy

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