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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: population,democracy.
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Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 11:42:59 EDT
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Keywords: population,growth,solutions,democracy



I don't have any quantitative data, but, looking at global demographics
subjectively, it appears as if there is an very strong negative correlation
between birth rates and the availability of TV programming.  One can speculate
about the reasons ("Not tonight, dear, let's watch the unspeakable drivel
show..."), but it seems that the way to cut down India's population explosion
rate is to make TV as cheap and widely accessible as possible, and to provide
volumes of mindless programming (i.e. end the state monopoly).

(Let's forumlate a theory that, just as we are inventing ways to control
undesirable insects by interfering with their reproductive cycles, TV has been
invented by an alien intelligence to control ours!)