You said:
"When you read the extinction laws for Native Americans you realize that the US government is already planning for our extinction and I don't mean extermination."
Explain - it seems horrible, but probably impossible considering how Indians have done well among the white-eyes.
Falstaff is a favorite opera of mine. At first, I didn't much care for opera - until I found the emotion that can be conveyed by song even more than instruments. It seems to me that there is only one tune that can be hummed in Falstaff, so I don't know why I am so fond of it.
Must be just great music.
Harry
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Ray wrote:
In the 1970s when scientists began to study allergies they uncovered an
interesting point about certain types of obesity. The people who were
eating believed they were starving in spite of the huge amounts they ate.
Nothing satiated their hunger. The food they were eating they were
allergic to. So if they ate one of that type of food they would desire it
all day long in the search for satisfying the hunger. But the allergy
wouldn't let the mechanism of "satisfaction" take over. Eat one sugar
donut and you were likely to eat the dozen that you had bought.
On the other side of that is the stress mechanism that calls up various
types of skills from the population when there is the need. Like Coyotes
and space, our evolutionary side seems to provide exactly what we need in
the way of people when the society is under stress. But we don't know it.
So we keep trying to provide what we need by producing more.
Fundamentalists are basically at odds with the future. They are under
stress from the whole technological frontier of present day science as well
as the science of evolutionary archeology. What is the answer? To have
more kids that they CAN control, in fact, for YOU to have more kids and
let them adopt them if you don't want them.
I'm speaking of other than the
historical "poverty" reason needing kids (because they die so easily and that
they are the "poor" retirement policy).
Consider how illogical it is for
orthodox Jews to encourage Jewish marriage when there are problems in the
gene pool. I see many genetic issues here in New York from the large
European Jewish population. The cure would be intermarriage but
with conversion there is a huge dropout from orthodox Judaism.
Judaism's very intricate system of manners and spiritual processes almost
requires being born into it for one to be comfortable. The answer is the
three subgroups of Judaism that are less strict about the manners and rules.
But with the huge world populations of other groups (Southern Baptists 31
million not to mention Catholics [almost two billion] and Moslems [1.1
billion]. the 14 million total Jews worldwide are fewer than American
Indians to the total population of the US (2 million). When you consider
the small population base it makes a kind of sense to propagate, no matter
what the outcome.
When you read the extinction laws for Native Americans you realize that
the US government is already planning for our extinction and I don't mean
extermination. So population is "complicated." Is it any wonder that
groups with other complicated identities feel threatened when their base
is small.
That complication is not only political but it has a psychophysical basis as
well that makes designing populations seem hopeless.
But I would say again, as I did yesterday. Everything individual is a gift and
every group is an important part of the human identity that not only is crucial
but is not erasible except by extermination. That we hold so tenaciously onto
out identities is, for me, an issue of evolution and human nature. It must
serve some purpose and I believe that it does.
Got to go see Falstaff tonight at the Met.
REH
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