Selfish genes & population demographics

[Gordon Fitch]

Gordon Fitch wrote:
> > The anomaly seems easily explained by supposing that
> > industrial, capitalist wealth is _contra_naturam_, as it
> > certainly appears to be given certain concepts of _natura_.
> > (By contrast, the wealthy of a tribal society -- the man or
> > woman with many pigs or reindeer -- might be expected to
> > reproduce vigorously and successfully.) The wealthy are, then,
> > perverts of a sort and may be expected to behave in a deviant
> > manner.
> >
> > Feed that to the Dawkinsites and they'll all go off to sit
> > at the feet of Zerzan, and we'll all be the happier for it.

Eric Franz Leher:
> But Gordon ... "By contrast, the wealthy of a tribal society -- the man or
> woman with many pigs or reindeer -- might be expected to
> reproduce vigorously and successfully ... '  - that's exactly what a
> Dawkinsite would say!  ...

Of course it is.  The request was for a rationale to save
Dawkinsism from an empirical difficulty, was it not?  So
I supplied one.  And suggested an added benefit.

-- Gordon