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Originally Posted by Paul Frindle
A few years ago (in one of my more depressed moments) the notion that people could be 'poisoned' on mass in such a fashion caused me some panic. I mean luckily this 'resolution virus' only affects digital audio. But what if someone came up with a similarly compelling idea that was similarly damaging, that was accepted immediately by everyone on first exposure to it (because it was so apparently obvious an indisputable) and yet it was destroying the whole of our society? But nothing and no one could oust the idea - whatever they said or did and however much evidence there was to show it was wrong and damaging - because applying the idea itself actually caused the symptoms and produced the very damage that convinced people the idea was valid in the first place!!!!
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Um... happens all the time, Paul. Google "Eugenics" or "Bell Curve", not to mention "Global Warming" or "Overpopulation".