Power and Domination. Pynchon first. Pynchon still

[Mark Kohut]

yeah, transliterated from The Economist.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The scientific argument that men are dickheads certainly resonates.
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jan 19, 2016, at 7:44 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have just done a quick self-study for a Talking Group. Population
> has gone down in (maybe) every country when the standard of living
> has enough 'middle class' in it.
>
> It is the still "developing countries" where the replacement births still
> exceed zero growth by a lot. The huge number of young now alive
> in the world does mean that they project continuing growth of population
> until maybe Peak Population around 2050.
>
> But growth is slowing and may accelerate its slowing.
>
> One fascinating aspect is how it seems women make this happen.
> They take charge of the number of children born since men are dickheads.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:31 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The roots of the 'over-population' concept are worth digging into. Big
>> in the US since the 70s but has only taken grip here recently. The
>> science is questionable. I'm not arguing one way or the other, though.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Nah. many countries, the US and Germany say, are at less-than-even
>> natural
>> > birth demographics.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I think it can all be reduced to over- population. There will be
>> >> inequalities, the more over-population, the more inequality.
>> >>
>> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>> >>
>> >> > On Jan 19, 2016, at 5:33 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Remember in the intro to SLOW LEARNER where Pynchon smoothly moves to
>> >> > suggesting
>> >> > injustice might be a class matter? As well as the major novels and a
>> >> > book about him with this title.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > ANTHONY ATKINSON'S NEW BOOK, Inequality: What Can Be Done?, is both
>> >> > emblem and evidence of this shift in mainstream economic thinking.
>> >> > Atkinson, of the London School of Economics and Oxford’s Nuffield
>> >> > College, is the dean of economists who study inequality. After an
>> >> > exhaustive compilation of data and trends, Atkinson bluntly
>> attributes
>> >> > rising inequality directly or indirectly to “changes in the balance
>> of
>> >> > power.” Thus, he adds, “Measures to reduce inequality can be
>> >> > successful only if countervailing power is brought to bear.”
>> >> >
>> >> > Though it has not attracted the celebrity attention, in many respects
>> >> > Atkinson’s work is more important than Thomas Piketty’s pathbreaking
>> >> > Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and is the perfect sequel. Where
>> >> > Piketty explained the tendency of wealth and income to concentrate,
>> >> > Atkinson digs deeper into what drove this shift and why conventional
>> >> > remedies will not reverse the trends. He has a far surer grasp than
>> >> > Piketty of the political dynamics that made possible the anomalous
>> >> > egalitarian era of the 30 glorious years after World War II.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > from a long review/ piece in THE AMERICAN PROSPECT by the estimable
>> >> > Robert Kuttner which I am not linking to since almost no one will
>> read
>> >> > it and those who will will eagerly go there on their own.
>> >> >
>> >> > PS countervailing power. an economic concept I first learned from JK
>> >> > Galbraith.back in the day.
>> >> > -
>> >> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >
>> >
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