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This tendency is especially strong in young men, and civilization and technology cannot suppress it. There is something seductive about belonging to a tribe or herd—something missing in the anonymity of television and videogames. In the right environment and given the opportunity, many young men will choose to join gangs...
...Vries set up a distinction between between long-term and short-term solutions. While infusing democracy into a cultural fabric—a long-range project—will produce lasting result, he said, the introduction of basic freedoms into traditionally terrorist regions will suppress the threat in the shorter term...
Kane added that administrators are not trying to hide rooming information, but rather waiting to release information until it is finalized. “The attempt is not to suppress secret information, it’s to prevent confusion,” Kane said...
...should’ve taught him some history: It’s been 170 years since the British Empire began their worldwide campaign to suppress slavery and the slave trade with military force. It was a lengthy effort that stepped on many, mostly African feet—specific to Ghana, they forced the Ashanti empire to stop slavery, live sacrifices, torture of enemy tribesmen, and myriad other barbaric practices. It’s true that everyone who was anyone had a slaving fort. The British, of course, but so too the Dutch, Swedes, Danish, even the Brandenburgers before Bismarck...
...Infections are becoming harder to suppress because bacteria operate under the Nietzscheian principle: what doesn't kill them makes them stronger. As germs reproduce, some mutate, randomly developing genetic traits that give them some protection against treatments that were effective against their progenitors. (Viruses, which cause the common cold, are impervious to antibiotics.) By administering antibiotics at even the slightest symptom, physicians and patients are multiplying the opportunities for stronger strains to flourish. Trouble has already appeared in the developed world: in the U.S., where experts estimate that half of all antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary, about 90,000 people died...