Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ 1090
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samzenpus
from the man-vs-channel dept.
from the man-vs-channel dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The manifesto of the man holding the Discovery Channel hostage with a bomb has been released. He has fired shots and taken hostages. His main complaints are about overpopulation, religion and civilization. He wants them to avoid encouraging people to produce more 'disgusting human babies,' to get people to accept 'Malthus-Darwin science,' reject civilization and its 'disgusting religious-cultural roots,' and to stop 'ALL immigration pollution.'" The man has now been shot by police, and the hostages have been freed.
Well... (Score:5, Interesting)
Of only it was for a good cause (Score:5, Interesting)
Like making Discovery Channel an interesting channel to watch again. I am not interested in (*City) Ink or in a cake-baking italian. No more seasons of crab/lobster/nessie fishing. I want the interesting stuff back again, learning things I wouldn't have learned otherwise. I will tolerate endless Rex Hunt reruns if this would be the case.
But no, mister hostage taker has some sort of higher goal here. Typical.
Re:Ok you first... (Score:3, Interesting)
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.
Re:Malthus Primer (Score:3, Interesting)
The key missed insight that we have, that Malthus didn't, is that supplies of things that are highly constrained in the short run are subject to economic pressures that may make them less constrained in the long run.
So as soil quality and aquifer levels decline, their portion of the price of food will rise (because supplies are more scarce). This will create enormous demand for good soil and better aquifers, i.e., the prize for doing things differently becomes enormous, and only then do people change their behavior.
But people can and do change their behavior when the incentives are right - if I call you Malthusian, I'm generally implying that you're failing to realize this.
So, you can absolutely believe that there are problems in the way we produce food, and still realize that Malthus was wrong, wrong, wrong. If you still think Malthus was right, then it's simply because I have failed to communicate what the word "Malthusianism" means in an economics context.
Re:the real question is (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Get Hell off the Planet!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
That's not how psychotic disorders work, sorry.
People pick up elements of their environment and attach them to their personal madness, but the media they incorporate into psychotic fantasies isn't remotely causing it.
I'd recommend a book called The Center Cannot Hold, by Elyn Saks - it's a memoir of a woman afflicted with psychotic episodes.
BS (Score:4, Interesting)
Christ all mighty, this Neo-Con bullshit again.
"Oh noes, teh evil immigrants are going to kill our nation and history, blah, blah, ADDED FOR EXTRA SCAREMONGERING!1!one1!"
I call BS.
I live in Australia and over the last 50 years we've had so many new groups integrate it's not funny. The local racist organisation will tell you that the Africans have come to destroy the Australian way of life. Maybe but 10 years ago that same racist organisation said the same thing about the Indians (so how are the Africans going to succeed where the Indians failed). When I was a wee tacker (20 years ago) they used to tell me how the Asians were going to steal all the Jerbs and there would be none for me (yep, saw how that one turned out). When my dad was my age the same thing was said about the Wogs (Greeks and Italians), the Irish before them, going back to when captain Cook first settled onto Botany bay there were these same scaremongers spouting the same bullshit and to be quite frank, I'm sick of it.
So with a Greek Kebab (souvlaki), Kwai Teow, Indian Curry, Meat Pie and Cold Beer I call BS. Immigration has done nothing but help this nation and I can say with absolute certainty that introducing and integrating new groups has not destroyed the things that made Australia great.
So kindly sod off with this nonsense.