societal tolerance

[kengr]

Interesting article about what may predispose societies to being "controlling". Stuff like wars and natural disasters.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/05/27/3225700.htm

It occurs to me to wonder if this explains the "Bible Belt" in the US as it pretty much covers tTornado Alley & the places that get regularly hit by hurricanes.

Comments

[mistresscayenne.livejournal.com]

I think this was a very interesting article. Portland, San Francisco and other liberal places do not see all that much strife from the natural disasters or war, like the US civil war. So this article makes a great deal of sense.

Cayenne

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Interesting indeed.

I wouldn't call the West Coast all that disaster-proof, since it's all an earthquake zone, and Portland certainly gets the occasional flood or storm. However, other factors mentioned in the article are definitely us, such as having a low population density and almost no danger of wars. (Southern California's eternal water shortage is more of an ongoing nuisance than anything which actually kills people.) We grow quite a lot of food relative to our population as well.