Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6625 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:54 am Post subject: Nothing is happening
Nothing is happening.
I see the same lines of migrating SUVs, the same hideous shopping strips a la Kunstler, the same knock-down and pave-over of forests and meadows for rows and swirls of identical oversized houses.
The same glittering seas of cars gathered at major consumption nodes.
The same endless suburbs growing more endless.
The same bottomless spew of predictable, manipulative hash from our "leaders."
The same lewd and garish "reality shows" cluttering TV---just one step away now from outright freak shows and public executions.
The same ongoing mass extinction of earth's infinitely precious endowment of plant and animal species.
In response to Peak Oil, Peak Water, Peak Health Care, deforestation, global warming, overpopulation, fiscal lunacy, runaway militarism, and a kind of creeping fascism, we are doing pretty much what we've been doing all along---NOTHING!
Nothing is happening. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:03 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
The down side is the longer we go w/o change the hard the fall will be. THATS what scares me! _________________ Everybody thinks they're righteous! Adam Baldwin "Jayne" Firefly/Serenity
Joined: Aug 04, 2005 Posts: 429 Location: Traded the man in front of the tank for a cat playing the banjo
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:07 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
Quote:
In response to Peak Oil, Peak Water, Peak Health Care, deforestation, global warming, overpopulation, fiscal lunacy, runaway militarism, and a kind of creeping fascism, we are doing pretty much what we've been doing all along---NOTHING.
shhhhh.... don't wake them up... thay are sleeping. _________________ When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
Think of a base jumper. As he leaps off a cliff nothing is happening, he's just floating, flying through the air. The ground is rushing in on him, and fast. Before it's too late he wails on the rip cord and the chute breaks open and jerks him back and he starts a controlled descent and a soft landing on to the ground with a big smile on his face.
Now think of another base jumper who falls off the same cliff without a parachute. Not only does he not have a parachute, he's so inibriated from petro-chemicals that he doesn't even know he fell off the cliff. The ground is rushing in on him. Yet nothing is happening...
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
Heineken wrote:
Nothing is happening.
I see the same lines of migrating SUVs, the same hideous shopping strips a la Kunstler, the same knock-down and pave-over of forests and meadows for rows and swirls of identical oversized houses.
The same glittering seas of cars gathered at major consumption nodes.
The same endless suburbs growing more endless.
The same bottomless spew of predictable, manipulative hash from our "leaders."
The same lewd and garish "reality shows" cluttering TV---just one step away now from outright freak shows and public executions.
In response to Peak Oil, Peak Water, Peak Health Care, deforestation, global warming, overpopulation, fiscal lunacy, runaway militarism, and a kind of creeping fascism, we are doing pretty much what we've been doing all along---NOTHING.
Nothing is happening.
What can we do. You think America will hand over the keys to the SUV's and go moped? You think China and India will decide not to industrialize and become the energy hogs they are gunna become.
Till tough times dictate tough measures, till the government mandates change, there will be none. The sheeple of the US are trained to scoot through life and pay taxes. The Sheeple tend to leave policy and dicision making to the elected officials. They are more conserned with keeping up with the Jones and one-up-manship 'anything you have I can have better'.
The sheeple will indeed give up eating out, entertainment, even eating at all before they will relinguish their status symbols, the SUVs, the 2nd home in the hamptons, the private jet and golf courses.
It almost seems like pple just dont want to know anymore. To consumed in their own lives to worry about you or tomorrow.
If your expecting a new world where we wake up and start taking lunches to work, giving more to the community and generally assessing the future world of our children, well, I think you might wanna go get a few snickers bars cause your gunna be here awhile. Go ahead, take the SUV to the corner store. Ride in style while you can.
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
My own personal litmus test is the neighborhood newspaper delivery person, who continues to deliver newspapers in a Hummer H2. As long as I see the Hummer used to deliver newspapers, I know people aren't changing behavior.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6625 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
zberry wrote:
My own personal litmus test is the neighborhood newspaper delivery person, who continues to deliver newspapers in a Hummer H2. As long as I see the Hummer used to deliver newspapers, I know people aren't changing behavior.
Ah, the psychology of previous investment, one of the major culprits underlying our hopeless stasis. The paper boy can't afford to give up that stupid Hummer---it will be prized only from his dead, news-ink-stained hands.
I used to deliver newspapers, long ago, but did so on my own two feet.
One of the most stupid, revolting sights I ever saw was an enormous Hummer covered with American flags, driven by a fat redneck who glared challengingly at me as he clambered out of it in the Food Lion parking lot. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
Nope nothing is happening, while the biodiesel enthusiasts run about on the tank of unleaded they just brought from shell.
The Titanic is just too massive to turn, even if anyone wanted to. I like the BASE jumper analogy, except I'm afraid for the first jumper, pulling your ripcord 2 seconds before impact does not a safe jump make.
Also if we were a jumper, we don't even realize theres' a cord that needs pulling! _________________ "One minute I held the key, next the walls were closed on me, and I discovered that my castle stands upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand."
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6625 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
Battle_Scarred_Galactico wrote:
Pulling your ripcord 2 seconds before impact does not a safe jump make.
That's a superlative analogy; I'll remember it. Yep, that sums it all up beautifully.
My own analogy is giving up cigarettes after learning you have advanced lung cancer. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Mar 24, 2005 Posts: 132 Location: Colorado
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Nothing is happening
As I commute to work in my little Scion XB, I can't help but notice that most of the other commuters can barely comprehend the fact that they are driving, let alone the more complex issues of Peak Oil, Global Warming, erc...
The self-styled, idealized visions of Americans standing for freedom and being industrious and resourceful may have applied to another generation, but not this one.
Expect no proactive planning or preparations for anything. It will be nothing but overreactions to problems beyond repair. It's become part of our culture. _________________ "One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill." -Ed Abbey
Isn't it strange that the same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously?
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