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“My goodness, did you see her hem? Six inches deep in mud. she looked positively medieval"- Caroline Bingley, Pride & Prejudice
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A phrase used by a possessed Michael Davies when he's is about to kill you from the horror indie game Faith: The Unholy Trinity.
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Get the WORSHIP MEEEEEEE! mug.An ecological-evolutionary theory that expands on the original Gaia Hypothesis (Earth as a self-regulating system). It proposes that planetary biospheres possess not just homeostatic (Gaia) tendencies, but also self-destructive or "self-culling" (Medea) mechanisms as inherent traits of complex life. Named after the mythological Medea who killed her own children, it posits that life, in its success, inevitably creates conditions for its own mass extinction (e.g., oxygen pollution by cyanobacteria, climate change from industrialization). This isn't an external punishment, but a built-in evolutionary dynamic where dominant species or metabolic pathways eventually destabilize the very system that birthed them.
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