The hare hypothesis is a playful guide to the four life-scripts (friendly weakness, hostile weakness, friendly strength and hostile strength), and their possible relationship to atavistic trends in youth culture. At the heart of the hypothesis sits the wild hare, a convenient symbol of untamed youth. I'm currently compiling an e-book version of the hypothesis which can be found in the archived section in the links above. Newcomers may like to read the concise introduction first.

 

Hello and welcome to any new-comers who turned up on the bloggy world recently. Thank you to everyone involved with the hypothesis in the early days - Iain

Please note, there are no printed copies of the early hypothesis to be found via this web-site. Also, badly damaged copies going for free were only kept for a year or two then the remainder were binned in the recycle skip back in the mid 1990s. There's none left. Don't waste your money on copies on Amazon going for 40 - 60 pounds - you're being ripped off. As for the second editions, they were just a few pages rattled off the computer & stapled together to keep the last punters happy - they're not 'books' as such.

Top illustration depicts the Angel - friendly weakness, the Bull - hostile weakness, the Lion - friendly strength, and the Eagle - hostile strength, in mandalic form; taken from The Book of Kells, possibly 9th Century.

Portuguese version of the old hypothesis - an article recently appeared which looks like it was written by myself and then translated into portuguese. I didn't write it, someone has in fact plaigarised various sentances from this site and not used quotations. So no, that's not me. If you're out there, please show respect to other writers and stop causing confusion.

E-book version - this is (at the moment) an empty file. Originally it appears to have been made by some creeper who was trying to make small cash with a pdf - they get 20 cents or whatever for every download by way of adverts/surveys. I guess the idea is similar to spam in that it looks like peanuts until you consider they're putting up masses of different files. The grubby people who run the piracy site won't remove the link as it is now empty and, 'not technically in breach of copyright'. What can I say, if you're daft enough to download dodgy pdfs then look forward to the latest Zeus bypassing your virus scanner.
On a more positive note, I'm currently working on an e-book which should be up on Kindle by xmas. It'll be cheap at around 99 cents/pence. It won't include Lesley's artwork unless I can get her permission.

Copyright Iain Spence, Lesley Wilkinson 1995 - 2012