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.cb ESCAPING THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY


	This article is for other people who worry that America
may become an unpleasant place to live because of the excesses
of liberalism, irrationalism and anti-technology or even that
American society may collapse and be replaced by some kind of
totalitarianism.
It considers how smaller groups might escape the collapse
rather than how to prevent it even though I am not at all
sure that a collapse will take place.
On the one hand, the suffering caused by the present disastrous
trends may cause a reversal.  On the other hand, blame for the
energy crisis has easily been diverted from the guilty, and past
societies have persisted in going to ruin.  Today, Britain shows
every sign of continuing to disaster even though its neighbors
provide immediate examples of the better results of better
policies.

	We begin with a catalog of possible disasters.  The catalog
is intended to establish a common ground with people whose thoughts
run in similar directions rather than convince people of opposite
views.

genetic decline, educational decline, character decline, judicial
and bureaucratic tyranny, Science for the People intellectual
thuggery, Harvard is worst, growth of bureaucratic ethic,
anti-intellectualism, anti-science scientists,
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John McCarthy
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

ARPANET: MCCARTHY@SU-AI
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