 
Date: 01 Apr 1993 21:14 -0500 (EST)
From: BLUECANARYINNAOUTLET 
Subject: Re: Has the Cat gone the way of the Dodo?
To: angst+@CMU.EDU
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Jon sez:

>With regard to Jesse's comments about population levelling out at a
>pessimal level - does anyone have any info on that kind of thing? are
>there studies or resonable projections based on factual data that give us
>projections? at least, what do you thing is the projection for everything
>going to hell?

   Damn-- I really should go hunt up the place I saw it, but yeah, that
was a projection made by the kind of population-bio folks who do that kind
of thing.  How recent it was, how reliable, who can say.  I suppose it
just *made sense* to me, you know? It seems to be the way that things
*turn out* in the real world-- the end of the world never comes.  Have a
Susan Sontag quote somewhere, where she talks about AIDS as "apocalypse in
slow motion", which really seems to be the (post)modern paradigm.
   Apocalypse, see, violates Murphy's Law: it simplifies things.  Whereas
in reality, things just get messier... and messier...

>i guess what i would like to know is, do you believe i should i be
>dropping everything right now, or can i wait a year or two?

   Um.
   I'd say, do nothing hasty.  Intensive thinking would be in order, I
guess.  I think that if we each spend at least part of our lives trying
out the kinds of different ways of life we've discussed, we will be part
of the solution rather than part of the problem.
   Hope.  Hope.  Hope.  And perservere.


   --Jesse.


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