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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Day BrownDay Brown Date: Sep 19, 2008 11:29
Jerry Kraus wrote:
> Well, obviously without cities one can't very well have major wars,
> Day. And, you have very little reason to have them. If everyone's
> spread out enough, major conflicts are much less likely to arise
> between people, and there aren't large population concentrations to
> engage in them.
>
> On the other hand, our current "Nightmare" has dramatically increased
> human life expectancy. Then again, so did Comrade Stalin, in Russia.
The Mongols did pretty well without cities. But in general, yes.
I expect cities will remain attractive to adults, who enjoy the nite
life. But kids need to be raised in the country or villages. They are
not instinctively equipped to deal with masses of people.
My quibble with increased life expectancy is that it evolved out of an
economic system dependent on oil which has expanded faster than oil
production can be increased to supply it.
Republics work well as long as the pie is expanding. But when that
stops, the exploitation of the power elite increases so that they can
continue to have increasing levels of bounty, thus giving them the
illusion that 'progress' continues. The problem with this is that
increasing portions of the lower classes no longer have any investment
in the system to protect, and will follow any demagogue who arises
promising to seize the assets of the rich for their benefit.
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