Re: Putting the method to the madness

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 13:43:09 BST

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    On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Chris Klopper wrote:

    >It is my belief that certain things are <too small><too close><too
    >incremental> to grasp while
    >others are far too large.

    snip

    >potential candidates of the latter. I am not referring to apartheid (always
    >painfully visible)
    >or Bosnia, I am talking orders of magnitude bigger than that.

    Interesting -- so large that we can't perceive it, or so dominant that we
    don't perceive alternatives and instead take it as normal?

    Can you speculate about what might be of such a magnitude?

    - Lawrence

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