ennui2 wrote:I think the fact this site has posts that go as far back as 2004 is incredibly instructive.
ennui2 wrote:I remember projecting myself into the future and wondering how long this site would remain online and whether any of us would be able to keep comparing notes while the world crumbled beneath our feet. Never did I imagine that the center would hold this long and the main talking points would be that oil being cheap during a glut is the main problem rather than oil scarcity.
ennui2 wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again. The reason there are so few posters here is that fast-crash peak-oil doomerism has been effectively discredited.
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ennui2 wrote: It's really down to a literal handful of posters ... Any rational person faced with such dwindling peer support would probably have thrown in the towel. So by definition, those who remain, do so because there's something wrong with their thinking.
Plantagenet wrote: Actually, there's quite a range of different kinds of interesting people here, and there are many different viewpoints and perspectives still represented here.
Plantagenet wrote:Yup. You never did have a very firm grasp on reality, even back when you were posting as mos.
Plantagenet wrote:there's quite a range of different kinds of interesting people here, and there are many different viewpoints and perspectives still represented here.
SeaGypsy wrote:As Planty said, peak oil is dead, long live peak oil.
We don't have to be ranting raving looney tunes like half the site was in 2007 to stick around here. In my book, very long discussions have become a rare treasure in life. 30 years ago I started sitting in cafe's all day in Byron Bay, hanging out with the most intelligent conversationalists I could find, soaking up knowledge, trying earnestly to become wise. 20 years ago they started to die. 10 years ago, Byron became a hollowed out shadow of what it was, the cafe intelligencia went the way of the dodo & the gay bar, everyone scattered & the internet took over. The gays went to grinder, the straights to tinder, the cafe scene moved to themed groups & forums like this one.
The forums here provide the stimulus & continuity I used to find hanging out with the guys (& the odd girl) in the cafe scene which no longer exists. The virtual cafe has gone pretty quiet the last few years, but the core crew are still around, enough that the conversation is ongoing & valuable, enough that I'm going to keep coming here for my coffee.
At some point, it is written, this cafe is going to get insanely busy again, busier than ever. Will that make it better? More or less fun? Will the owners ever make a profit? Will any of us still be around if it takes decades? Who knows? Who cares?
It's my cafe & I love it.
pstarr wrote:Each of you guys/gals have contributed so much to this site. I thank you all. I am constantly challenged and delighted by the so many different attitudes and personalities.
A megalopolis is where you live.
Your confusion is evident in your contradictory positions on doom, which you scoff at but believe in.
SeaGypsy wrote: Why the hell are you here? Nobody likes you & you don't like anyone, so why?
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