Comments on: Fixing One Thing

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 13:48:47 +0000

Forgot to add. Where’s the Bureau of Sabotage when we need them. (Frank Herbert fans will understand).

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 13:45:07 +0000

There is no doubt what so ever that White people are responsible for the deaths of those poor Africans. If they had not put those wells in they would have never been alive to kill. Showing the great deviousness of the White man.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:26:26 +0000

Herbert certainly has a point, but I’d be willing to bet that there was more to the social disruption he witnessed than simple availability of water. Monistic, single-issue explanations are usually just as misleading and inappropriate as monistic, single-issue solutions.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:08:19 +0000

“The leading cause of problems is solutions”

…which doesn’t imply that there should not be solution-creating.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:58:23 +0000

family feuds, murders, all kinds of things that never occurred in those places

I had no idea North Africa was so peaceful! We should put them in charge of the UN! Cheap sarcasm aside, I think Herbert's obviously right about lowering the water table = BAD. I don't know what we should have done. Underground canals, underground houses?

By: Candide III

Candide III — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:25:11 +0000

Africa cannot wage world war. Nor true mass migration, either — the few hundreds of thousands which come each year to the EU are a drop in the ocean.

This is also one of the two options in the neoreactionary position — the other one being unabashed colonialism à la Britain in Egypt.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:17:01 +0000

On the other hand, without the Green Revolution we would be living in Paul Erhlich’s dystopia, or maybe worse if we had a world war.

Herbert is perilously close to adopting the stance that we should leave the darkies to their own devices whatever the outcome. This is by and large the modern Green position.