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  • Historical Patterns Predict This Crisis Will Last Through 2025 [View article]
    This essay is long on a theory most respectable social scientists would eschew. It is born out of the science fantasy movement. This 10th grade level essay is long on IDEOLOGICAL STATEMENTS and short on facts. Bergmann defines an ideological statement as a statement of belief stated as it is factual, when it is not.

    For instance: "The natural force in play is the length of an average human lifetime, 85 - 100 years (also known as a saeculum)." Please tell me when the mean life span was this high? Maybe next century. This age cohort is now the 3rd standard deviation of the population curve and represents only about 1% of the world population!

    When this author starts making factual statements derived from factual data he will have more impact.

    Kants model: thesis-antithesis-synt... is more coherent and resonant with the history of mankind, but it failed to account for the process of unionization, and so Marx's adaptation of Kant and his prediction that Capitalism will fail and move into communism failed.

    Why does Alpha allow such drivel?
    Mar 08 15:21 pm |Rating: +1 0
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