Don’t mention the population
25th August 2010
Steve Sailer points out an inconvenient truth.
Third World population growth is becoming an unmentionable in the press. There’s nothing much more fundamental in human affairs than population, but we talk about it less and less.
This reflects the general anti-reductionist trend in Western thought. As the education level of the elites rise, the popularity of Occam’s Razor seems to decline. Who wants to figure out the simplest way to comprehend how things basically work when it’s better for your career to assert that everything’s very, very complicated, and only an expert like yourself could possibly begin to grasp the complexities of it all?