Pops wrote:The main character, once in the publishing business in the Big City, reflects on his prior homosexuality (back when there was oil) and wonders if he was really gay at all or had he merely played out a role that the decadent, consumerist civilization had set for him...
That is as far as I got. LOL. I'm not gay and don't know anyone who is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with peak oil, plastic Christmas trees or consumerism.
The feeling in the first few pages is of how serene the world becomes after most of the population dies off from the epidemics and the good people who are left pick up all the stuff left laying around. The first couple dozen pages I found trite and predictable and I hate to say it, but; "plastic".
It's Peaker Heaven, though. A total reset world where the lucky bottleneck survivors get to remake themselves in the low-tech image of their former company-time daydreams — using materials left behind by that same cursed world.
It is Little House except with the constant subtext that all the characters are descendants of the modern Noah. If you hate modern civ and think everyone deserves to go but leave their stuff intact; you'll like it.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Pops wrote:The main character, once in the publishing business in the Big City, reflects on his prior homosexuality (back when there was oil) and wonders if he was really gay at all or had he merely played out a role that the decadent, consumerist civilization had set for him...
That is as far as I got. LOL. I'm not gay and don't know anyone who is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with peak oil, plastic Christmas trees or consumerism.
The feeling in the first few pages is of how serene the world becomes after most of the population dies off from the epidemics and the good people who are left pick up all the stuff left laying around. The first couple dozen pages I found trite and predictable and I hate to say it, but; "plastic".
It's Peaker Heaven, though. A total reset world where the lucky bottleneck survivors get to remake themselves in the low-tech image of their former company-time daydreams — using materials left behind by that same cursed world.
It is Little House except with the constant subtext that all the characters are descendants of the modern Noah. If you hate modern civ and think everyone deserves to go but leave their stuff intact; you'll like it.
Pops wrote:
The feeling in the first few pages is of how serene the world becomes after most of the population dies off from the epidemics and the good people who are left pick up all the stuff left laying around. The first couple dozen pages I found trite and predictable and I hate to say it, but; "plastic".
Withnail wrote:Pops wrote:
The feeling in the first few pages is of how serene the world becomes after most of the population dies off from the epidemics and the good people who are left pick up all the stuff left laying around. The first couple dozen pages I found trite and predictable and I hate to say it, but; "plastic".
Kunstler basically hates other humans.
Ibon wrote:
Time to move on?
Lore wrote:Ibon wrote:
Time to move on?
Move onto what? You can say pretty much the same thing about Peak Oil. Pretty much its all been discussed. Only tapping out the time now.
Timo wrote:Lore wrote:Ibon wrote:
Time to move on?
Move onto what? You can say pretty much the same thing about Peak Oil. Pretty much its all been discussed. Only tapping out the time now.
Solutions.
Lore wrote:Ibon wrote:
Time to move on?
Move onto what? You can say pretty much the same thing about Peak Oil. Pretty much its all been discussed. Only tapping out the time now.
Lore wrote:
So, I would suggest we have the solutions we just can't move on to produce the action.
Ibon wrote:Lore wrote:
So, I would suggest we have the solutions we just can't move on to produce the action.
What's stopping you? And I am not singling you out. I mean this for everyone reading this. What is stopping anyone?
Ibon wrote:
And the irony is that he is far more engaged and in relationship to the very society that he has so much disdain for. That is why his writing is so visceral.
Ibon wrote:Lore wrote:
So, I would suggest we have the solutions we just can't move on to produce the action.
What's stopping you? And I am not singling you out. I mean this for everyone reading this. What is stopping anyone?
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