Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity
William Liu (Liu Zhongjing, 劉仲敬) is a historian who is often called “Auntie (阿姨)” by his audience. Auntology is Liu's study, works, and philosophy. The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity is a podcast series created based on Liu's articles, speech, lectures, and book chapters. The original materials were documented in Mandarin Chinese at https://www.lzjscript.com, translated into English by DeepL and human translators, and narrated by Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. The podcast was produced by Lumina Society, which is a nonprofit organization aiming to provide insightful and alternative narratives of history.
Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity
S03E01 [SEASON PREMIERE] Dense but homogeneous populations
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Season 3 Pandemics and Beyond
Episode 1 Dense but homogeneous populations
"... The spread of infectious diseases requires densely inhabited conditions, which is tantamount to requiring civilization itself. Civilization has the innate concept of a dense population... One byproduct of civilization is that it allows its certain beneficiary groups, such as those that first invented agriculture, to breed in large numbers with relatively homogeneous genotypes, and as a result create a susceptible population in an epidemiological sense..."