Lyndon has archly observed the catastrophic consequences of collapse,
presumably from the perspective of a natural theologian witnessing an act of
Divine
intervention.
Most cavers acquire a uniformitarian worldview along with their mother’s
milk, so it is not surprising that they climb breakdown piles by tugging at the
keystones held there by mudsnot and the long memory of mother earth. Seeing
such, I avoid their company, and thereby the consequences of their
presumptions. As they are squashed like cockroaches many experience a
“deathbed conversion
” to the Velikovskian view that not only life, but even geology, is an
ephemeral phenomenon.
As to the noise that it all makes, it is nothing compared to the noise made
by philosophers such as Bishop Berkeley and John Locke whose words echo
through the empty chambers of academia where no one is listening.
Sleazeweazel