Comments on: The Eaten and the Enslaved http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: elambend http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html/comment-page-1#comment-18882 elambend Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html#comment-18882 <p>That stretch of Africa has such a cruel history, even by Africa's standards.</p> That stretch of Africa has such a cruel history, even by Africa's standards.

]]> By: Michael http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html/comment-page-1#comment-18883 Michael Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html#comment-18883 <p>Hmm, maybe next time we interfere with the region we should arm the pygmies instead? 'course, we'd then probably be hearing about how good Bantu tastes. . .</p> Hmm, maybe next time we interfere with the region we should arm the pygmies instead? 'course, we'd then probably be hearing about how good Bantu tastes. . .

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html/comment-page-1#comment-18884 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html#comment-18884 <p>It's important to realize though there is nothing necessarily African about this -- cannibalism is so universal that there is a nearly species typical mutation that guards against brain diseases caused by eating other brains, and in... the other only population in which this disappeared (the Japanese)... it re-evolved elsewhere in the genome.<br /> <br /> The necessary cause "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" horror of the Gap is the lack of Systems Administration. The reason that we need to hedge -- but not wedge -- China [1] is that this terror must end.<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/06/africa-and-taiwan-hedge-it-don-t-wedge-it.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/06/africa-and-taiwan-hedge-it-don-t-wedge-it.html</a></p> It's important to realize though there is nothing necessarily African about this — cannibalism is so universal that there is a nearly species typical mutation that guards against brain diseases caused by eating other brains, and in… the other only population in which this disappeared (the Japanese)… it re-evolved elsewhere in the genome.

The necessary cause “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” horror of the Gap is the lack of Systems Administration. The reason that we need to hedge — but not wedge — China [1] is that this terror must end.

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/06/africa-and-taiwan-hedge-it-don-t-wedge-it.html

]]> By: purpleslog http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html/comment-page-1#comment-18885 purpleslog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/17/the-eaten-and-the-enslaved.html#comment-18885 <p>Wow. This blows my mind.<br /> <br /> I'd like to know how the UN will respond. I fear there will be no response whatsoever.<br /> <br /> Are the Pygmy activists Pygmies or non-Pygmies?<br /> <br /> "short life expectancy"...well yeah if they are being hunted as food and as magic ingredients.</p> Wow. This blows my mind.

I'd like to know how the UN will respond. I fear there will be no response whatsoever.

Are the Pygmy activists Pygmies or non-Pygmies?

“short life expectancy”…well yeah if they are being hunted as food and as magic ingredients.

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