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| Big Cities : The origins of Tyranny |
| 2010-09-30 |
| Kate Parker doing her best Peggy Noonan imitation... |
| Posted by:Phosing Big Foot3926 |
| #9 It might also be the impetus for the Left's great desire to pack people onto trains and make them run on time. |
| Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2010-09-30 12:48 |
| #8 May have something to do with the carrying capacity of natural land within a days walk? Size of an extended family/tribe: your immediate relatives (minus any married-out siblings), their children (minus married-out cousins), and cumulative ancestors. And, yes, the totalitarian impulse does seem to be connected with city life. One clue is the seemingly universal impulse they have to "reform agriculture" and the universal result of their reform: famine. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-09-30 12:08 |
| #7 This is a perfect statement of the need for true federalism. If people in big cities need/want "four pages of restrictions" then fine, let them have them and live under the control of the local tyrant. BUT, the country is not one big city that the DC tyrant should control! Heck, the states shouldn't have that level of control. Devolve all these issues back to the locality where they belong. |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2010-09-30 10:25 |
| #6 I read somewhere that 150 is the magic number for human group size - that the brain was evolved to synthesize the actions & emotions of no more than about that number of group members. May have something to do with the carrying capacity of natural land within a days walk? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-09-30 09:11 |
| #5 My dad's comment on cities: Put two rats in a cage, and they make love - put twenty rats in the same cage, and they start killing each other. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-09-30 05:44 |
| #4 Pithy, but spot on. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2010-09-30 02:00 |
| #3 IIRC NEWS KERALA/TOPIX > ARTIC > the Perts were repor claiming that the BULK OF EARTH'S POPULATION WILL BE "URBAN" BY YEAR 2030, i.e. living in LARGE CITIES + [proto]SUPER/MEGA-CITIES. 2012/2013 SOLAR STORMS notwithstanding, just in time for the World to potentially be witness to MASSIVE LUNAR EXPLOSIONS iff our future OWG-NWO screws up its Math + Politix as per COMET APOPHIS + EFFECTIVE SPACE DEFENSE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-09-30 01:05 |
| #2 As is said here, "if you want a friend in D.C. buy a dog." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-09-30 00:43 |
| #1 Big cities are bastions of ignorance. Everybody must control everybody. They are stupid death traps and they always vote WRONG - hence they all flee the cities to make the rest of our lives the same as what they just left. The 11th commandment is leave other people the %&#k alone. Those idiots in those idiot cities could learn a lesson from that. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-09-30 00:35 |