pretty darn'd cool. AFTER the oil runs out and about 3/4 of us die off. until then, well anything could still happen the day after tomarrow too. we keep hearing and seeing all kinds of things that the day before almost no one would have believed could ever happen. so far in my own life, living in the tent the u.s. is pissing out of instead of one it is outside of pissing in, compaired to a lot of people in other places i'm pretty damd lucky. i still feel like a damd prisoner living here though. i think a lot of what we take for ganted will eventualy colapse one way or another. and eventualy some time after that, maybe another century or two after THAT, then we'll all, those of us who are alive there and then, be way better off, even without, and possibly because of being without, what we may no longer then have. if we have to walk a lot, and ride arround on solar+battery powered 'trollys' we will all be a hell of a lot better off for doing so. but all that may be waaay far after i'm likely to be gone. for now it's pretty crappy at the moment and could get either better or worse with about equal probability. eventualy it really will get better though. a lot better, when we stop worshipping the automobile and romantacizing aggressiveness, and a few of the other silly stupid things we're collectively doing right now that are screwing everything up. =^^= .../\...
that all makes good sense. I hope yer not saying that I'm agressive though. I might say mean things or joke around to spite people on the Hip Forums, but in real life I'm a freakin pacifist. Totally.
i hope i'm not saying any ONE is anything. rather that conditions are created by policies motivated by incentives created collectively by a defacto consensus of priorities actualy lived by. =^^= .../\...
the only way for mankind to move forward is for the population to decrease dramatically. The earth can no longer sustain this many people, and we're still f*cking like crazy and having kids. We're running out our resources. I think WW3 will knock off a couple billion, then the after effects another billion or two. I think by the end of all that's going to happen, there will be less than a billion left.
Empires are built, empires are destroyed... I think there are plenty of resources in the world for its entire population to thrive, but when those resources are horded by elitists, things get ugly. When rich farmland is paved over with shopping malls and parking lots, and most of the products that are sold are manufactured elsewhere in China and places where products are cheap and people are exploited, one can only wonder what degenerative social disease caused it...surely there's no way we can sustain ourselves... ...and we call this "civilisation"?.... ...in light of the latest turn of events in Lebanon (I'll save my thoughts on this subject for a different thread), but I'm starting to wonder if what Nostra Domos (sp?) predicted is playing out, a religious war to end civilisation as we know it... ...meanwhile I'm gonna do what I always do, have a good time, party hardy, and do what I can to act locally for the global good, when my time comes, at least I'll know I've done what I can...
people still have this romantic notion that wars reduce population. sure lots of people die in them. but as soon as the're over they turn arround and make more babies then there ever were before so they end up having the opposite effect. population implosion is not improbable. certainly tends to happen in nature, which, dispite so surrounding ourselves with our artifacts that it's easy to forget, we are still very much inside, part of and dependent upon. this thing we've done to the weather with cars and combustion gerating plants, this is likely to have a severely unfavorable impact on the very realities of our environment we depend upon. that and the way nature comes up with diseases and malnutrition that increases suseptability to them when populations of a species get out of balance with all the others in an ecosyustem, these things can and are more likely to do it to us then wars, though there's nothing to stop there from being wars too of course. appearantly the gratuitousness of starting one out of thin air didn't stop the forces bush represents, but i think enough people will eventualy get tired enough of that nonsense for it to stop again for a while, and maybe this time when it does, it might not start again. not if the oil runs out and the dollar collapses and a few other things like that before it gets a chance to. so eventualy things are gonna be pretty good for those who survive or the children of those who survive. and there will be survivors, as long as there's any capacity to support the existence of life remaining on this earth. which, while uncertain, it is highly probable that there will continue to be. for now though, yah, things might get pretty rough. like they already are in a lot of places for a lot of people. mostly because of what is happening as a resault of fanaticly trying to make everything have to begin and end with little green pieces of paper. but you know, all of this unplaesant things, they mostly don't happen all that romanticly dramaticly, just seemingly interminably drawn out unpleasantly. and a lot, probably most, of them, can still be ended/avoided, and possibly, just possibly, some of them will be, when people get tired enough of how things are now, which is something people do pretty much tend to do. =^^= .../\...
