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Speck Tater

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5. That's stage three.
Sat May 26, 2012, 06:18 PM
May 2012

Haldane's stages of acceptance of a theory: (paraphrased from memory)

1. This is nonsense. It can't be true.
2. This is interesting, but not widely accepted.
3. This is true, but the effect is too small to be concerned with.
4. Of course this is true. We've believed it all along.

I think the financial catastrophe will be irrelevant. When the population of the earth is reduced to 1/10th it's present number it will be a whole different world. I could be a toss-up whether that remaining 10% survives or not. But one thing is certain; even if the human race survives, what we call "civilization" will not.

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