the "chicken little syndrome", which can be exemplified by the following conversation........


C. Little:   "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!  Everyone run and hide!"

The rest of the world:   "C Little, why do you believe the sky is falling?"

C. Little:  "Because it is definitional........because I believe it to be so, it is........just a matter of definition!"


And so, the rest of the world left C. Little to his own space, ranting and raving........