Zipf Says World Dictator Unlikely

Speaking on the "Sociology of World Domination,' 'George Zipf '23 yesterday declared at a meeting of the Social Relations at a meeting of the Social Relations Society that "the findings of systematic social science today suffice to give pause to world political ventures in finance and trade, however cleverly disguised."

Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities.

The other obstacles to world domination, according to Zipf, are the nature of the dominant hierarchy, which the world dominator would have to use in order to coerce the population to slaves, and the problem of language and communication.