Greetings good citizen, today's topic, 'The Cliff' tackles the subject that (apparently) is never far from the average person's mind (it is also directly responsible for apt label 'superstitious peasant'.)
It seems EVERY generation (bar none) lives with the suspicion they are living in the 'End Times'. [For better or for worse, a significant portion of the population also believes that this (existence) is hell.
Now most of us don't go around muttering to ourselves, fretting out loud about our fears...but when we have quiet time, a few minutes to reflect, many of us visit that media/church created nightmare known as 'The Second Coming'.
Perhaps it's easier to deal with all of the uncertainty of our mundane lives to believe that God has a 'Plan'...and isn't going to just wipe us all out with a wave of his/her/its hand/paw/snout.
Nope, somehow it just won't be 'the end' without all of that unimaginable suffering.
I know this isn't 'helpful' but the 'adults in the room' aren't any more optimistic...and the pain they foresee is staggering...because it's natural and much more likely.
It's the 'avoidable' part that's up for debate.
Without invoking 'creator's revenge', most 'thinking people' believe the end of fossil fuel will have a similar result to a dog reaching the end of its tether at full gallop. The dog doesn't break it's neck but we can only marvel as to why because the impact is, er, 'impressive' to say the least.
Like the dog, we will pick ourselves up off the ground and shake ourselves, inspect for damage and mentally curse whatever it was we were chasing that caused us to up-end ourselves. (In our case, good citizen, that 'rabbit' is the "American Dream", as seen on TV.)
Unlike the dog, we remain tied to post and no one is coming to bring us in the house.
It's a 'good news/bad news story'...good news, your creditors all went 'poof'...bad news, so did deliveries of food, the police and fire departments...[leading us back to those who opine this is hell. The good news is 'a little good' while the bad news is catastrophic!
Funny when you strip the flag from the 'rugged individual', you find a decidedly socialist infrastructure supporting their 'hard won' independence...
You'd like to think that most of you know this but the reality is most of you never go there. You are more worried about the end of...and this last part is important, 'the world as we know it' because some of you realize the world you were born into ceased to exist by the time you were ten, same as the world of the ten-year old you was a very different place by the time you were twenty.
What's going to kill a bunch of us is the sudden/abrupt return to 'square one'.
If we keep in mind man's legendary inhumanity to his fellow man I don't need to draw you a picture of how 'bad' things are going to get.
Naturally, as intimated/hinted at above, we ponder the 'necessity' of returning to the...er, 'stone age'?
For as long as the money spends and the trucks keep running the current 'crazy train' will keep chugging along. Don't be alarmed good citizen but there is ZERO data (publicly available) regarding how much 'energy' we have remaining to power our 'global' lifestyle.
This is the devil, we won't run out of resources, we simply won't be able to get them from where they are to where they're needed in time to do anyone any good.
And civilization can't survive in a resource depleted environment. The 'opportunists' among us will start hoarding the moment they sense the ship has hit a shoal...making an already bad situation much worse.
Well, good citizen, we all know...[and again, sadly we don't...because most of us never 'go there'] how 'fragile' civilization is.
We're [Western civilization] is running up against the inevitable exhaustion of resources that will bring 'life as we've come to know it' to an abrupt halt. The only reason we haven't crashed and burned yet is because we still have enough 'energy' to keep the skids greased but they're pumping money into the economy at a frantic pace...trying to engineer a 'relatively' soft landing.
A trip to the grocery store is like living in an episode of 'The Twilight Zone'...you mentally wonder how long you can keep paying more for less.
I can sense your attention is drifting...you get the picture, if we tried to touch ALL of the bases this blog post would become a novel.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
It seems EVERY generation (bar none) lives with the suspicion they are living in the 'End Times'. [For better or for worse, a significant portion of the population also believes that this (existence) is hell.
Now most of us don't go around muttering to ourselves, fretting out loud about our fears...but when we have quiet time, a few minutes to reflect, many of us visit that media/church created nightmare known as 'The Second Coming'.
Perhaps it's easier to deal with all of the uncertainty of our mundane lives to believe that God has a 'Plan'...and isn't going to just wipe us all out with a wave of his/her/its hand/paw/snout.
Nope, somehow it just won't be 'the end' without all of that unimaginable suffering.
I know this isn't 'helpful' but the 'adults in the room' aren't any more optimistic...and the pain they foresee is staggering...because it's natural and much more likely.
It's the 'avoidable' part that's up for debate.
Without invoking 'creator's revenge', most 'thinking people' believe the end of fossil fuel will have a similar result to a dog reaching the end of its tether at full gallop. The dog doesn't break it's neck but we can only marvel as to why because the impact is, er, 'impressive' to say the least.
Like the dog, we will pick ourselves up off the ground and shake ourselves, inspect for damage and mentally curse whatever it was we were chasing that caused us to up-end ourselves. (In our case, good citizen, that 'rabbit' is the "American Dream", as seen on TV.)
Unlike the dog, we remain tied to post and no one is coming to bring us in the house.
It's a 'good news/bad news story'...good news, your creditors all went 'poof'...bad news, so did deliveries of food, the police and fire departments...[leading us back to those who opine this is hell. The good news is 'a little good' while the bad news is catastrophic!
Funny when you strip the flag from the 'rugged individual', you find a decidedly socialist infrastructure supporting their 'hard won' independence...
You'd like to think that most of you know this but the reality is most of you never go there. You are more worried about the end of...and this last part is important, 'the world as we know it' because some of you realize the world you were born into ceased to exist by the time you were ten, same as the world of the ten-year old you was a very different place by the time you were twenty.
What's going to kill a bunch of us is the sudden/abrupt return to 'square one'.
If we keep in mind man's legendary inhumanity to his fellow man I don't need to draw you a picture of how 'bad' things are going to get.
Naturally, as intimated/hinted at above, we ponder the 'necessity' of returning to the...er, 'stone age'?
For as long as the money spends and the trucks keep running the current 'crazy train' will keep chugging along. Don't be alarmed good citizen but there is ZERO data (publicly available) regarding how much 'energy' we have remaining to power our 'global' lifestyle.
This is the devil, we won't run out of resources, we simply won't be able to get them from where they are to where they're needed in time to do anyone any good.
And civilization can't survive in a resource depleted environment. The 'opportunists' among us will start hoarding the moment they sense the ship has hit a shoal...making an already bad situation much worse.
Well, good citizen, we all know...[and again, sadly we don't...because most of us never 'go there'] how 'fragile' civilization is.
We're [Western civilization] is running up against the inevitable exhaustion of resources that will bring 'life as we've come to know it' to an abrupt halt. The only reason we haven't crashed and burned yet is because we still have enough 'energy' to keep the skids greased but they're pumping money into the economy at a frantic pace...trying to engineer a 'relatively' soft landing.
A trip to the grocery store is like living in an episode of 'The Twilight Zone'...you mentally wonder how long you can keep paying more for less.
I can sense your attention is drifting...you get the picture, if we tried to touch ALL of the bases this blog post would become a novel.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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