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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1023361, member: 57463&quot;]Ummm... you know, I have been waiting for the end of the world since 1972.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Two books broke the reverie:&nbsp; Merchants and Moneymen in the Middle Ages painted a story about a businessman in Italy in 750 AD getting ready to go to Constantinople.&nbsp; It was the Dark Ages!&nbsp; And yet, trade and commerce continued, as it must.&nbsp; The other was <i>The Future and Its Enemies</i> by Virginia Postrel, then an editor at <i>Reason</i>. There is a strong millennarian streak on the far right (but also on the far left).&nbsp; Some people pray for the End of the World.&nbsp; Yet, it continues... as it should, will, and must.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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