Re: Year 2000 Supply/Production Risks

["Marasigan . Vicente" <vic@pusit.admu.edu.ph>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Christopher Byrne wrote:
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> It's not going to happen. I'm not going to let it happen. I'll accept
> inconvenience mode, but not survival mode. Nor will i take my chances
> with resurrection mode - progressive or theocratic. 
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"Progressive OR theocratic." A discontinuity is here assumed.  Can
continuity also be assumed?  Yes if the phrase is given a finely tuned
meaning resonant with human feelings, Christopher's and mine.

And Teilhard de Chardin's.  Teilhard's 22 short articles compiled in a
book entitled "The Future of Man" say what Christopher is saying "It's
not going to happen" in more than 22 different scientific ways, but
the resonance is unmistakable.

Teilhard does not mention memes.  The term was coined later by R.
Dawkins who says that a meme is an abstract gene and that all the
genes we have in our bodies in 1999 have been living for millenia in
ancient mice and men because of their memes.

The Y2K meme is contagious. For better or for worse?  For better, yes,
but not for worse.  Like Chris, I'm not going to let it happen.

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> unfalsifiable assumptions. I'll advocate for moderate "rainy
> day" prep for families and workaround contingency planning for my
> organisation (someting they do anyway). I'll bug the technical
> authorities to become confidence builders, nodes of trust. I'm going
> for continuity first and foremost, and I'll work around discontiniuty
> as and when it happens.
> 
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When it happens, deep down you will either discover continuity or
create it.

Vicente Marasigan