N S-ay on Malthusian popuL8ion dynamics + th val-U of zer0 growth in 1 city of 1,000 | post |
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10/4/22 | aNYCity > (cont.) 8 @ Pig + Khao (★★★★★) w/ L + MM (co-author of Residue) + got drinks in LES 10/5 > walked Bleecker 2 west side, up 2 Printer Matter, then met BroLo (author of Part of World) @ Tick Tock diner (★) > then up the river to 74th st met R bedder-½ + walked across Central Park + str8 down 6th Ave 2 Bdwy, ducked out of th rain @ Strand books then back 2 hotel > 8 @ Rosie's (★★★★★) Mexican > toetill walking 4 th day = 12 miles 10/6 > finally good whether (mid-70°s + sun5hine) > walked up 2 Columbia, thru Central + Riverside parks, talked 2 Columbia housing ppl + viewed a few apartments 2 set expect8ions > Citibiked back down along th Hudson > then Citibiked across bridge 2 Brooklyn + walked thru Bklyn/Park 5lope > 8 @ Fonda w/ L + MM then 2 Community bar > toetill mileage on th day = 16, mileage 4 last 4 dayz = almost 60 ... s0 ~15 miles per day wile in NYC > iT occurred 2 U/i th other day (when R 5¢ense popuL8ion counter rolled over to 8,000,000,000) dat U/i had nvr actually red An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus ... U/i imagine very few do, just ≈ very few actually read Origin of Species > s0 we set out 2 read it > th language = a bit antiq8ed + hard 2 digest + Malthus wrote iT az rebuttal/remarks in response 2 other writings by Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, + others whom U/i've nvr even herd of, s0 sorta akin 2 reading movie review 4 movie U nvr saw > iF U/i remade th movie now U'd title iT We're Fucked, but Malthus lived b4 Victorian times even s0 obliged 2 B polite + apologetic in his pessimistic doom + gloom + Uses words ≈ love, passion, happiness, vice, etc. + drops th G-word 2 much > 4 eggsample, Malthus wd transL8 R 2-word solution 2 We're Fucked—«stop fucking»—az «we must temper our passions with intellectual pursuits to achieve happiness»
> Malthus 5tarts by postuL8ing dat 1). ppl need food + 2). ppl = horny ... ⊕ in his words:
> he goes on 2 say dat th humun popuL8ion will increase faster than th planit can produce food 2 feed it, ⊕ in Malthusian landgauge:
> lit-L did Malthus know, iT's worse than geometric, th popuL8ion is eXponential! he shd of none bedder az Leonardo de Pisa already came up w/ Fibbingnacho #s 2 illustr8 how fast rabbits fucked in 1170 > Malthus overestim8ed growth in his lifetime, but then underestim8ed iT 4 th next century > he assumed popuL8ion dub'Led every 25 yrs... but iT didn't dub-L 2 2 billion til 1900, but by 2000 had tripled to 6 billion > granted iT's now tapering off a bit, but when taken in historical per5pective, thi5 graph shd 5care th B-G-zus out of N-E sentient bean on thi5 planit: > Malthus = admittedly + apologetically unsighingtific, butt @ heart he B-leaves in sighence + rallies against th «old mode of philosophising» + making «facts bend to systems, instead of establishing systems upon facts.» > az U/i've st8ed b4 in post #999, growth = overr8ed > U/i eXagerr8 when U/i give th solution az «stop fucking» but iF every couple gener8ed 2 kids then we all cd just go on living in thi5 current st8, when/where rati0 of birth/death = 1 ... ? is, @ what point do we establi5h thi5 5tatus Quo eQuillibrium? 1800 ⊕ 1960 ⊕ now? (R vote = 1966, witch happens 2 = year U/i = born) ) > men-E of th eUropean countries halve achieved zer0 growth + iF taken az isoL8ed st8s cd perhaps B considered happy Utopias (4 eggsample, imagine iT-L-E w/ n0 2-rists ⊕ immigr8ion) ... but shd the5e countries be responsible 4 ab5orbing burgeoning popuL8ions elsewhere (e5pecially 1s dat colonized other countries) in this nu world order? per Malthus:
> th other ? = how much of earth's L& must we dedic8 2 agriculture 4 humun consumption @ th Xpese of other flora/fauna dat has long 5ince lived in eQuilibrium in their one ec0systems? 30 yrs ag0 az N undergrad math 5tudent U/i wrote thi5 paper on popuL8ion dynamics, dat demonstr8ed dat 5table eQulibriums ebb + fl0w (unlike humuns who thu5 far have ballooned unchecked), u5ing thi5 simple predator-pray mod-L: > i.e. az # of pray increase, predators increase, D-creasing th pray popuL8ion until predators in turn D-crease + # of pray increases again, etc. 5tarting th cycle over > in th humun situ8ion (applying Malthus), predator = humun + pray = food > happiness = when thi5 circ-L = 5mall, a dot even, w/ lit-L ebb + fl0w in either popuL8ion ⊕ food production, when few ⊕ n0 ppl 5tarve + live happily ever after > but ≈ Malthus considering onely r8s of 1). food + 2). fucking, thi5 = overly 5implified 2-party mod-L naught taking in2 a count rest of ec0system, weather iT B their home, their city, their st8 ± th N-tire whirled > folks w/ kids (hopefully 2 or less) shd think along these lines in terms of familial Units (or th replacement therapy kin dat Donna Haraway tocks of in Making Kin Not Population, witch U/i red @ biginning of thi5 trip), wear input = output ... az long az U = fed + clothed what more do U need? Y th need 2 accumuL8 consumer products + capital 2 become mill/billionaire? 5in¢e U/i don't halve kids, thi5 Unit = U/i + bedder-½ > but eveN on 5ingular/personal lvl U think of thi5 homeo5tasis, th balance B-tween eating + exorcizing > U/i reckon R set point = 155–160 lbs, but typically U hover above this w8 ... @ th biginning of thi5 year R w8 = 175 + 1 month ag0 U managed 2 stay B-low 160 for 1 week, b4 rebounding above > w/ all thi5 walking + hiking U/i did these past 3 weeks U figured may-B U mite of lost w8, but yesterday U/i wayed 163 ... a few pounds heavier then when we left ... granted U/i had less control over R food + perhaps overindulged naught onely food but alcohol, witch 1 cd als0 apply th above graph 2 ... what = perfect amount of hooch? 1 mite say zer0 drinks, but zer0 drinks = n0 fun + U cd say what = th point of B-ing on thi5 planit? s0 U halve 1–2 drinks + iT makes food tastes bedder + U feel bedder, but then sum nites U overdo iT + halve 4–5 drinks (≈ nite B4 we left, hanging w/ R friends in Bklyn) + don't 5leep well + iT triggers R meniere's/vestibular migraines (th0 U/i suspect dis pertickler time iT had more 2 do w/ dat piece of chocolate cake (2 celebr8 R bedder-½'s B-day early)) > intresting dat when Malthus tocks abt FX of dubling, he uses walking az eggsample:
> U/i think th 5weet 5pot 4 walking/running = 10k/6 miles, perhaps more 4 walking but time B-comes consder8ion ... iF we walked ~15 miles per day ≈ U/i halve th last 4 dayz in aNYCity, dat's
4 hours U cd B doing sumping else, so yr overall «production»/output D-creases > + @ ∫um point U do more damage than good iF U run/walk 2 much, az U/i can attest 2 in training 4 marathons
> during th p&emic, aNYCity lost 300,000 ppl + D-spite claims of a rebound, especially in Manhattan th popuL8ion = D-creasing 5till > aNYCity almost reached ~8,000,000 in 1950s + 5ince then has ebbed + fl0wed: > 5ince 2000 iT has increased a bit, but again, iT ebbs + flows + currently = on th D-cline (+ 300,000 less since 2019): > s0 iT goes in cycles ≈ predator-pray graph above + probly similar 4 rats + cockroaches > th article als0 st8s dat
> whoever wrote th (typically sens8ionalized) article als0 = viewing aNYCity thru lens of 5ocial media, witch has 5kewed th eNtire world (in R opinion less-s0 in NYC then aNYwhere else ... but then again, U/i ain't on social media so U/i wouldn't n0), sounds ≈ th author doe5n't actually 5pend much time walking th 5treets > sure NYers = wack0, but n0 stranger then they were 20 yrs ag0 (in R opinion 5in¢e moving there in 2000, probly less s0)
> they halve th eMphasis backwoods, in regards 2 what NYers val-U ... iT all = about quality, not quantity, specially iF U = tocking abt popuL8ion 10/7 > woke up + walked 2 whatever they call Penn st8ion now, Amtracked baɔk 2 D.C. ... good 2 B home after 3+ weeks of travelling |
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