Unit 5-2 Summary Response

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10/22/2013 Unit 5-2 Summary Response The Author of this particular article seems to be describing events of a TEOTWAWKI nature (The End of the World as We Know It). He writes as a senior citizen looking back on his life noting that all the scares society has been through have come and gone with very few problems. Overall, It’s seems he has tired of these events and just wanted a break from all of them, or he just gave up caring about them. Strange, considering the author was world renowned for writing novels based around world changing events and human folly. By and large it seems he has reason to regard future scares baseless. After all he has lived most of his life seeing these scares come and go with no major events to speak of or changes to society. Humans are wrong about a lot of their predictions. Only through lengthy, meticulous study, it seems, can one even be versed enough to make a credible claim. In the end, all that studying can be turned on its head and see entire careers washed away with it. While Mr. Crichton (at this point) has lived most of his life, the fact remains that he has lived MOST of his life. He isn’t as excitable as he used to be, nor is he inclined to live in such a manner. Experience and old age tell him to slow down and not care so much about what WILL happen as he knows death is creeping up on him. Most young people today are just that; young. They still have their entire lives ahead of them. They are constantly thinking “What if? What if?” Worrying is the province of the young. Those days are far from over. They must grow and learn and take the place of those like the author who came before them. That is the way of the world and the world is full of unknowns. It is natural to be scared of the
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