| 1. | Contemptuous of the familiar and despise their urban surroundings and all associated with it —their community. |
2. | Revere the unusual or rare which for most of them is the flora and fauna not seen close to their cities. |
| 3. | Susceptible to irrational fears, which makes them anxious about:
| The purity of their food, drink and air, making them obsessed with fears of pollution and toxic waste. |
| Change, such as the introduction of mobile phones, new drugs, genetic engineering, nuclear power. |
| The risk of supplies running out, which is why they insist upon zero population growth and allowing only self-sustaining industries. |
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| 4. | Feel a sense of impending doom, as the thing they most cherish —themselves—must eventually perish, so they are particularly sensitive to any notion of global catastrophe that will doom everybody. |
| 1. | A reverence for nature (flora and fauna away from cities) with its imagined sacred and delicate balance essential for global life.
| Pretending that people are not part of nature and ignoring Charles Darwin's work 'The Origin Of Species', which revealed that nature is a continual series of accidents that randomly destroy and create species: and that humanity only appeared because countless previous species were exterminated. |
| Ignoring that there is no balance in the natural world, only chaos. And unless humanity controls nature it will remain dependent upon blind chance for its well-being. |
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| 2. | Contempt for Western Civilization that is expressed by a ruthless (without any moral restraint) opposition to anything and everything that excites their irrational fears, and this includes:
| Any expansion of the community in size —it encroaches upon nature. |
| Any expansion of population— it uses up more finite resources. |
| Any change (improvement) in technology regardless of its potential (including the stifling of nuclear power, genetic modification, high dose radiation for food preservation). |
| The use of substances new or existing, such as insecticides, drugs, etc. (this includes DDT, Thalidomide, Devron, Asbestos) |
—all to avoid the possible threat of global catastrophe—impending doom.
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| 3. | Being Paranoid: that is frightened of imaginary dangers, while being blind to real threats such as social decay and human obsolescence. |