societal tolerance
May. 27th, 2011 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrInteresting 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-05-29 06:28 am (UTC)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.