The collapse was really a function of European disease being introduced. The story that's been told about these populations going crazy and creating their own demise may just be simply an artifact of [Christian] missionaries telling stories.

Carl Lipo

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There may not have actually been any collapse. With only 500 years, there's no reason to believe there had to have been a huge [population] growth.

It fits our 20th-century view of us as ecological monsters. There's no doubt that we do terrible things ecologically, but we're passing that on to the past, which may not have actually been the case. To stick our plight onto them is unfair.

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My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.

— Carl Gustav Jung

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We have received reports that the disease is fast spreading to other farms across the state.

I don't wish this disease on anybody.

— Charisse Strawberry