[ExI] Famous Scientists saying Racist Things

[William Flynn Wallace]

Evolutionary psychology might suggest our real troubles will not happen so
long as people have the necessities of life.



spike    Maslow's hierarchy too. *except for fanatics/martyrs*

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 5:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Famous Scientists saying Racist Things
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> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> >>… *A long time ago, I was told of a particularly savage form of
> execution reserved for bad guys who did things like raping and murdering a
> child…*
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> >…The real life inspiration for the Dracula myth , Vlad the Impaler
> (1428-1477), once impaled  20,000 Men women and children at the same time
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> *>…"**The sultan's army entered into the area of the impalements, which
> was seventeen stades long and seven stades wide…*
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> Vlad the Impaler <http://Vlad%20the%20Impaler>
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> John K Clark
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> Owww damn.
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> The capacity of humanity for inhumanity is astonishing.  But I have a
> reason for hope.
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> As recently as the middle of the last century, mass starvation was a very
> real threat in some places.  Now it really isn’t, or it isn’t a huge
> threat.  Keith’s model of the bleak future leading to war makes us stop and
> think: how grim does the future need to be in order to compel a society to
> go to war?  If starvation is not a threat at all, immediate exposure to
> lethal elements are not a threat, but the other guy has better basketball
> shoes and somehow ended up with a rolex watch, is that sufficiently grim to
> risk everything?
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> I think it isn’t.  I can envision people having to travel a long distance
> to get supplies in Chicago’s food deserts, but not actually starving
> there.  They may pull down statues and paint graffiti, but stop short of
> armed resistance for the most part.  Evolutionary psychology might suggest
> our real troubles will not happen so long as people have the necessities of
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> spike
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