Friday, January 13, 2006

I Think Not

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Multiplying cultural change rates against geographical- cultural differences in the modern world seems to bring us to a precipice: The World is about to end.

This 'precipice' has been around for thousands of years as recorded in the VOOT, indicating that the 'cultural gradient' previously described was well known to the ancients who worried much the same way about much the same observations of rampant change versus obvious ossification. But the ancients were much less justified in their speculations given the relative change rate.

So it would seem. But were they, really? I think not.

What do I mean by that?