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From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Funny how the definition of "the sky" keeps changing.
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:50:08 -0700


A year ago, someone who predicted that in 12 months the Dow would lose 40 
percent of its value and Congress and a Republican Administration would give the
Treasury Secretary the money and authority to start nationalizing American 
banks like a Latin American socialist caudillo would have had to endure taunts 
about "The sky is falling!"

It amazes me how quickly the previously "unthinkable" has become normalized.


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and 
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence 
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).

Mark Plus

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