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Pirates: Great Pirates:
"their East India Company. Malthus discovered that the world people were multiplying themselves much more rapidly than they could produce goods with which to support themselves. His calculations showed an arithmetical progression in the rate of gain of the vital supplies and a geometrical progression in human reproduction. Darwin’s ‘Evolution’ and his explanation of it as being caused by ‘survival only of the fittest’ was formulated 25 years after Malthus and successful survival of only a minor fraction of humanity-- by the shrewdest, toughest, swiftest, most farsighted, and hardest hitting-- seemed to be as scientific fact. To their thinking, any altruism was fatal.
“This was the basic conception upon which the great pirates and all the sovereignties which they established were operated. Neither they nor the rest of the world society ever foresaw an era of technology which would continually do much more with ever less resource investments per each function until, as today, suddenly, all unexpected by the world’s economists, business-men, and politicians of all ideological persuasions, a 1/4-ton communications satellite outperforms the transoceanic message-carrying capability of 150,000tons of copper cables.”
¶ Citations
- BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.27, 1968
