01-23-2004, 04:27 PM
Hi,
2. How does one stop stupid people from breeding/multiplying? Gene splicing? Methinks not.
Italy has well under ZPG, India well over. Yet I don't think either group is stupider than the other. It is a question of what is seen as an appropriate family size. And that reflects the attitudes of the culture. It has long been known that those attitudes can be changed by appropriated advertising (propaganda) campaigns.
And, since the "stupid" are more easily manipulated by public opinion (having no private opinion to offset it), a less than ZPG international propaganda campaign might have the side effect of increasing the overall intelligence. Sort of a reversal on the joke: "The intelligence of the Human race is a constant, the population is shrinking." :) :)
--Pete
2. How does one stop stupid people from breeding/multiplying? Gene splicing? Methinks not.
Italy has well under ZPG, India well over. Yet I don't think either group is stupider than the other. It is a question of what is seen as an appropriate family size. And that reflects the attitudes of the culture. It has long been known that those attitudes can be changed by appropriated advertising (propaganda) campaigns.
And, since the "stupid" are more easily manipulated by public opinion (having no private opinion to offset it), a less than ZPG international propaganda campaign might have the side effect of increasing the overall intelligence. Sort of a reversal on the joke: "The intelligence of the Human race is a constant, the population is shrinking." :) :)
--Pete
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