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March 26, 2010 at 6:08 PM #532805March 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM #531872
Ricechex
Participant[quote=taz]James Howard Kunstler has been writing about this for years…the “Long Emergency”…[/quote]
I read him too. He has a weekly blog, new entries on Mondays. Here is the link for anyone that is interested.
March 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM #532001Ricechex
Participant[quote=taz]James Howard Kunstler has been writing about this for years…the “Long Emergency”…[/quote]
I read him too. He has a weekly blog, new entries on Mondays. Here is the link for anyone that is interested.
March 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM #532452Ricechex
Participant[quote=taz]James Howard Kunstler has been writing about this for years…the “Long Emergency”…[/quote]
I read him too. He has a weekly blog, new entries on Mondays. Here is the link for anyone that is interested.
March 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM #532549Ricechex
Participant[quote=taz]James Howard Kunstler has been writing about this for years…the “Long Emergency”…[/quote]
I read him too. He has a weekly blog, new entries on Mondays. Here is the link for anyone that is interested.
March 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM #532810Ricechex
Participant[quote=taz]James Howard Kunstler has been writing about this for years…the “Long Emergency”…[/quote]
I read him too. He has a weekly blog, new entries on Mondays. Here is the link for anyone that is interested.
March 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM #531882paramount
ParticipantFor the longest time I thought we were building towards some kind of event horizon.
Now though, I don’t think that event horizon will ever be reached – at least not anytime soon. The last 2 years or so have changed the country in a lot of ways, and over the coming years things will continue to change but we will adapt.
March 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM #532011paramount
ParticipantFor the longest time I thought we were building towards some kind of event horizon.
Now though, I don’t think that event horizon will ever be reached – at least not anytime soon. The last 2 years or so have changed the country in a lot of ways, and over the coming years things will continue to change but we will adapt.
March 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM #532462paramount
ParticipantFor the longest time I thought we were building towards some kind of event horizon.
Now though, I don’t think that event horizon will ever be reached – at least not anytime soon. The last 2 years or so have changed the country in a lot of ways, and over the coming years things will continue to change but we will adapt.
March 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM #532559paramount
ParticipantFor the longest time I thought we were building towards some kind of event horizon.
Now though, I don’t think that event horizon will ever be reached – at least not anytime soon. The last 2 years or so have changed the country in a lot of ways, and over the coming years things will continue to change but we will adapt.
March 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM #532820paramount
ParticipantFor the longest time I thought we were building towards some kind of event horizon.
Now though, I don’t think that event horizon will ever be reached – at least not anytime soon. The last 2 years or so have changed the country in a lot of ways, and over the coming years things will continue to change but we will adapt.
March 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM #533132CA renter
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]TexasLine: Actually, I do think you’re onto something here.
For the last generation or two, we’ve grown accustomed to cheap food, fuel and money and have built an unsustainable societal and business model around it.
We’ve gotten used to a unipolar world in the last twenty years and, like Rome and Great Britain, have grown complacent, lazy and morally weak.
As a country we’ve come to abhor hard choices and are unwilling to recognize that the cost of our lifestyle has grown exponentially more expensive, in terms of health care (due to poor lifestyle choices like all that cheap, commodified McDonalds food), resource extraction (fiscally ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), and business/finance (attempting to sustain wealth generation with a depleted manufacturing base and acting as though pushing pieces of paper around or selling each other overpriced houses is somehow actual work).
Nope, I think you’re right. There is a seismic change taking place and, even if you can’t see it, you can feel it coming.[/quote]
I know that we’re not on the same side of the aisle; but I agree with everything you said.[/quote]
Same here.
Good post, Allan (and Texas Line).
March 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM #533261CA renter
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]TexasLine: Actually, I do think you’re onto something here.
For the last generation or two, we’ve grown accustomed to cheap food, fuel and money and have built an unsustainable societal and business model around it.
We’ve gotten used to a unipolar world in the last twenty years and, like Rome and Great Britain, have grown complacent, lazy and morally weak.
As a country we’ve come to abhor hard choices and are unwilling to recognize that the cost of our lifestyle has grown exponentially more expensive, in terms of health care (due to poor lifestyle choices like all that cheap, commodified McDonalds food), resource extraction (fiscally ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), and business/finance (attempting to sustain wealth generation with a depleted manufacturing base and acting as though pushing pieces of paper around or selling each other overpriced houses is somehow actual work).
Nope, I think you’re right. There is a seismic change taking place and, even if you can’t see it, you can feel it coming.[/quote]
I know that we’re not on the same side of the aisle; but I agree with everything you said.[/quote]
Same here.
Good post, Allan (and Texas Line).
March 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM #533710CA renter
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]TexasLine: Actually, I do think you’re onto something here.
For the last generation or two, we’ve grown accustomed to cheap food, fuel and money and have built an unsustainable societal and business model around it.
We’ve gotten used to a unipolar world in the last twenty years and, like Rome and Great Britain, have grown complacent, lazy and morally weak.
As a country we’ve come to abhor hard choices and are unwilling to recognize that the cost of our lifestyle has grown exponentially more expensive, in terms of health care (due to poor lifestyle choices like all that cheap, commodified McDonalds food), resource extraction (fiscally ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), and business/finance (attempting to sustain wealth generation with a depleted manufacturing base and acting as though pushing pieces of paper around or selling each other overpriced houses is somehow actual work).
Nope, I think you’re right. There is a seismic change taking place and, even if you can’t see it, you can feel it coming.[/quote]
I know that we’re not on the same side of the aisle; but I agree with everything you said.[/quote]
Same here.
Good post, Allan (and Texas Line).
March 30, 2010 at 12:04 AM #533807CA renter
Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]TexasLine: Actually, I do think you’re onto something here.
For the last generation or two, we’ve grown accustomed to cheap food, fuel and money and have built an unsustainable societal and business model around it.
We’ve gotten used to a unipolar world in the last twenty years and, like Rome and Great Britain, have grown complacent, lazy and morally weak.
As a country we’ve come to abhor hard choices and are unwilling to recognize that the cost of our lifestyle has grown exponentially more expensive, in terms of health care (due to poor lifestyle choices like all that cheap, commodified McDonalds food), resource extraction (fiscally ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), and business/finance (attempting to sustain wealth generation with a depleted manufacturing base and acting as though pushing pieces of paper around or selling each other overpriced houses is somehow actual work).
Nope, I think you’re right. There is a seismic change taking place and, even if you can’t see it, you can feel it coming.[/quote]
I know that we’re not on the same side of the aisle; but I agree with everything you said.[/quote]
Same here.
Good post, Allan (and Texas Line).
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