"The sky is falling!" cried Chicken Little.
In the story, the chicken simply reacts. In fact, it goes totally berserk, running around proclaiming a doomsday scenario without ever stopping for a reality check. At no time does Chicken Little investigate what triggered its response. Likely, fear of a cataclysmic disaster had already been deeply ingrained. If operating on ''red alert'' prior to the event in question -- and not just orange or yellow -- it was surely in panic mode long before an acor
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