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From Osher Doctorow
I'd guess from these figures (which if anything probable error toward
over-counting contributions) that:
A. The Cold War never ended (the USSR just decentralized), since the
main Superpowers seem to have exactly the pattern of conformity that
they had during the Cold War based on multiple-time papers far below
their production of conformist papers.
B. Several parts of the world are uninterested in time due to cultural
laziness or a philosophy of "transcending time" which is similar to
taking or zonking out on dope, or actually being hooked on dope:
Africa, India, Pakistan, Central and South America outside Mexico and
Brazil, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Japan.
C. Cold War or former Cold War nations are far below where they would
be expected if the Cold War were over, including the USA, Russia, the
U.K., China, France, the Balkans, Germany.
D. Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Germany, Austria, and
Israel arguably are unusual cases. My guess is that Italy, Germany,
Austria, Mexico are "undercover" USA allies, that Iran is an "uncover"
Russia-Chinese ally (and arguably Pakistan), and that it's a toss-up
whether the Saudis and Brazilians are allies of the USA-UK or
Russia-China.
E. As I indicated before, predominantly Catholic nations do have a
tendency to be unusually concerned with time, as do English-speaking
nations, but the conformist tendency is far stronger and the mainstream
is relatively uninterested in the two-time-axis or three-time-axis
ideas. They're arguably too busy with the Cold War now known as
"Victorious Capitalism fighting Islamist Terrorists" so that it
literally has become a hot War.
Osher Doctorow
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