Peter Russell on life after oil, change and consciousness.

Gvil · Tar Sands Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 31

Exclusive to Transition Culture! Peter Russell on life after oil, change and consciousness.

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I wonder if this mind set he has that says change is bad isn't an underlying difference between the sheeple out there and the attitudes expressed here on peak oil. Most of the people here would not be typified by his perception of people, I can't see a lot of people here sitting around in fear.

If anything I think we;ve seen that most people once they accept the reality of peak oil and have time to assimilate and wrap their brains around it and come out of the other side of the resulting depression take on quite a bit of courage.

The rest are sheep and will follow along denying reality even as it presents itself until they equalize with a new reality in a form they can deal iwth: or they will die.

Likening this to a "dark night of the soul" is a joke and the guys obviously out to lunch on that one. I mean its bad, but no where near that bad.

I think his basic psychological reasoning is erronious. I think he's out to lunch really. Fear is one of the greatest motivators there is. If given a choice between the reward of something pleasureable and the avoidance of pain: in every study whether in a lab or out of it, its been proven conculsively that fear or more specifially the fear of pain is a greater motivator, if not the greatest.

the only exception to this is the fear of death but which of those two is the greatest motivator is still unproven.