Topic: Demographics

Quotes

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)

• Societies that forgo the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully on what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources into offspring.#Quoted in Johnathan Anomaly & Garett Jones, Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: how Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits (2020)

Johnathan Anomaly & Garett Jones, Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: how Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits (2020)

• The reproductive patterns that have emerged in large liberal societies are neither adaptive nor desirable from the standpoint of human flourishing across generations.#

Paul Johnson, Modern Times (1991)

• Nineteenth-century colonialism reflected the huge upsurge in European numbers. Twentieth-century decolonization reflected European demographic stability and the violent expansion of native populations.#