Director | August 4, 2010
Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. If you were excited by our summary of critical state theory in Part 1, today’s post should sober you up. Everything in critical state theory is a load of bullshit.
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Tags: Adolphe Quetelet, critical state theory, Jeffrey Sachs, Mark Buchanan, scientific determinism, scientific history, ubiquity
Director | August 2, 2010
Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. During the past twenty years scientists have been working to develop a new theory, called critical state theory, from nonequilibrium studies of physics. Critical state theory, which is part of chaos theory, hypothesizes that disasters, upheavals, and other large-scale phenomena arise […]
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Tags: chaos theory, critical state theory, Mark Buchanan, power law, ubuiquity
Director | May 8, 2010
Review of Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings, New York: Random House, 1977. Marvin Harris became one of the most influential populizers of anthropology on the basis of his historical analysis in Cultural Materialism and Cannibals and Kings. Harris theorizes about the formation of the strong state systems that dominate history. He believes that agriculture arose […]
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Tags: Cannibals and Kings, cultural determinism, Cultural Materialism, John Zerzan, Marvin Harris
Director | March 22, 2010
Review of Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. The UNFPA became the central population control agency, but immediately it was criticized for bypassing national governments and being unaccountable to UN member states. UNFPA was criticized as a “U.S. front organization.” UNFPA had […]
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Director | March 20, 2010
Review of Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Fatal Misconception provides details of population programs that we have found nowhere else. Our brief summary below does not do justice to the wealth of detail in Connelly’s study. We give Fatal Misconception our […]
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Director | March 18, 2010
Review of Garrett Hardin, The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Traditional religious ethics promoting life are an investment in failure, according to Hardin, because eventually all species must run into the brute fact of a hostile environment that limits population. All species must? Really? Prove it, Dr. Evil. Ah, […]
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Director | March 16, 2010
Review of Garrett Hardin, The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Garrett Hardin belongs to the group of radical world population controllers that includes Paul Ehrlich and the Zero Population Growth Movement, Ted Turner, Jacques Cousteau, Al Gore, the Clintons, and the other notables at the Club of Rome. Ehrlich […]
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