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   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: ansaman@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/9/2021 3:25 PM, Wilson wrote:   
   >   
   > I actually like all of that, especially your "Church of Despair"   
   > concept.  It fits the feeling I get from the doomers.  And "existential   
   > horror"!  We don't hear talk like that very much these days.   
   >   
   > I've read 18th century explorers talk about the "bleak and fearsome   
   > desolation" of the wilderness.  Today we consider the natural world a   
   > soothing respite from civilization.   
   >   
   > But those guys knew something that we mostly don't think about.  They   
   > weren't as far removed from what nature is really about, "red of tooth   
   > and claw".  If they were attacked by an animal or another human, broke a   
   > leg or got a fever from an infected cut, there was a pretty good chance   
   > they'd die out there, in great pain and maybe all alone.  There was no   
   > rescue service to rush them to an emergency ward and no doctor within   
   > many days travel.  Personal experience with existential horror was close   
   > by and very real.   
      
   Relatively recent... the Franklin Expedition... glorious nature!   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition   
      
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