Newfie wrote:Lucky,
Maybe but I am not so sure. What you say makes perfect sense BUT people often have a very strong bias to justify their world view. In my own experience I run into otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people, p people with an otherwise good technical knowledge, who are completely convinced ced climat change is a total hoax.
I think we here on PEAKOIL are not representative of the general population.
Yes, those people you interact with haven't a clue, but they are not Bush or Buffet or a Rothschild are they. They are just salary slaves who watch TV and believe what it tells them, they haven't the time, or inclination, to read what we have and digest it. It takes a certain personality to reject all the mainstream lies, all the fashion. I don't watch TV, I don't spend money on expensive cups of coffee every day, I don't have a $4000 dog, I have never changed out my wardrobe because this years shirts are Yellow and not brown. The average person does much of this though, they are a slave to fashion and to the beliefs held by society in general. It's why they buy these cheap modern houses with plastic plumbing rather than looking for an older decent brick one that has copper piping and solid timber floors.
They are brainless! They waste all their money on garbage and invest their life savings in a volatile stock market. Just look at the people who buy EV's, we know they are twice as expensive as a conventional car of the same design and comfort, we NOW know that they don't save bucket loads on running costs, they have all these shortcomings but people flocked to buy them, for no other reason than they were trendy, touted as "the Future"
Now how much TV do think the elites watch? Could you see Buffet sitting down to watch the weekly episode of Game of Thrones or some cheap reality show? He's entertaining friends over cocktails or sitting at table eating off silver service. Would he put his dinner on his lap in front of the TV like millions of average Americans? He know the TV is all lies, he spreads enough of them through that media himself. So do all the captains of industry, the elites. No, they are not stupid, they are not ill informed as the general public is. I can't see them believing the lies about climate change and oil depletion. Or the elite bankers the lies about borrowing your way into prosperity. Hell, they are the ones getting rich by selling those lies.
We are the lucky ones. Today I am surrounded by neighbors that are beginning to struggle with the high interest rates and the high inflation. They look disturbed, they are starting to sell their boats etc. They couldn't see this transition coming yet it was obvious it would come? It's come many times before, even in their own lifetimes. Stupid people, slaves to the TV and all the happy talk.