Frank Evens writes
From: Frank Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Axial gnomons and riots
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:48:57 +0000
In considering the Oxford and Bristol reports and Hogarth's painting
(reproduced in the article) Poole believes there is no evidence to
support the stories of riots.
Hi Frank and all,
You have every reason to suspect that what happened in 1752 has been
overblown. But think how this year's millennium silliness will be seen 250
years from now by scholars reviewing the historical records. People in 1999
really believed that civilization as they knew it was coming to an end on 1
Jan 2000. Power would go off around the world. Airplanes would fall from
the sky. Refineries would explode. The army was called out to strategic
locations to protect government facilities. People stockpiled a years supply
of food, water and firewood. People armed themselves to protect their
families and stockpiles from roaming mobs. Banks and stock markets were
expected to crash as people converted their assets to cash and gold.
You will be seen by future generations as Chicken Littles, running around
screaming "The sky is falling" just because the calendar rolled over to a
new digit in the thousands column. Don't you know that this calendar didn't
start on the supposed day of the birth of a carpenter's son, skipped the
year zero and has had to be corrected on several occasions to keep in tune
with other cycles.
Sorry folks but this is how you will be judged by history.
It's good that I have a longer term perspective on these things.
As always, Sol Invictus
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