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[james_davis_nicoll]

The Economist looks at past moral panics and notes some striking patterns.

The memetic prophylactic recommended warning is for some of the comments.

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[peter-erwin.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I suspect that quote is spurious. A nearly identical one is sometimes attributed to an "Assyrian" (or "Babylonian") tablet from "2800 BC" (or "3800 BC"); a discussion in this open thread at Making Light (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012016.html) traced references back to 1908, without getting anything like an actual scholarly source.