The saying among the boys who race the street rods is “ya’ don’t break ’em winding ’em up. You break stuff reversing the momentum to bring ’em back down.” True words, and every bit as true for population numbers as some hard running Saturday night street fighter of a stove-bolt Chevy.
Fact of modern life: for any number of reasons the population trends are sliding from population reduction into populations crashing down, and this is a very bad thing. Among the larger dangers of having your population crash is that people pressure behaves a great deal like gas pressures. When the numbers start to fall in one region people, like gases, try and equalize the population pressure… and this drives just all kinds of cultural and socio-political problems.
As a matter of fact with just a touch of tweaking to set the analogy flat you can actually apply the classic P=VrT equation from fluid dynamics to such scenarios (hint… the ‘r’ term is of cultural origins, and T is far more measuring an emotional state as a fraction of “sufficient motivation to act” than anything involving btu’s per pound… V and P play pretty much the same between the two applications).
Look at modern America from that perspective and the conflicted attitudes of both political polarities makes a great deal more sense than the reasons they’re willing to admit to do. But, go figure… it is a given that political science (using the word science very loosely) does not operate with anything to resemble the precision of the folks whose long labors over the centuries gave the word “science” its’ meaning.
February 2, 2022 @ 10:35 pm
The saying among the boys who race the street rods is “ya’ don’t break ’em winding ’em up. You break stuff reversing the momentum to bring ’em back down.” True words, and every bit as true for population numbers as some hard running Saturday night street fighter of a stove-bolt Chevy.
Fact of modern life: for any number of reasons the population trends are sliding from population reduction into populations crashing down, and this is a very bad thing. Among the larger dangers of having your population crash is that people pressure behaves a great deal like gas pressures. When the numbers start to fall in one region people, like gases, try and equalize the population pressure… and this drives just all kinds of cultural and socio-political problems.
As a matter of fact with just a touch of tweaking to set the analogy flat you can actually apply the classic P=VrT equation from fluid dynamics to such scenarios (hint… the ‘r’ term is of cultural origins, and T is far more measuring an emotional state as a fraction of “sufficient motivation to act” than anything involving btu’s per pound… V and P play pretty much the same between the two applications).
Look at modern America from that perspective and the conflicted attitudes of both political polarities makes a great deal more sense than the reasons they’re willing to admit to do. But, go figure… it is a given that political science (using the word science very loosely) does not operate with anything to resemble the precision of the folks whose long labors over the centuries gave the word “science” its’ meaning.