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Most people are far too complacent when it comes to the consequences of a shrinking economic system. Many claim that we can easily downsize to smaller homes and smaller lives, since there’s so much we don’t really need anyway, that we will move in together and return to “good” conversations, growing our own tomatoes and all that. But that’s just not going to happen voluntarily, not on a large and wide scale. The human mind has no reverse. It doesn’t even have a steering wheel. We are built for one of two things: go forward or crash. It looks like there’s no forward left before a major crash happens first. It also looks like there’s not a whole lot of people who realize this.

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-17-2010-forward-or-crash.html

Ilargi is so, so right.

Posted by Søren Renner on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM in
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Posted by Guessedworker on March 18, 2010, 07:30 PM | #

The human mind has no reverse. It doesn’t even have a steering wheel. We are built for one of two things: go forward or crash.

So “they” will crash and “we” will go forward.  The only question is: at what point do we start asking who is this “we”, so we can get the ball rolling?  Return of the group and all that.

Of course, this is a question for a political elite that does not yet exist.  The present pre-revolutionary elite began asking the same question in secret some time after WW2, I would say, and came up with the answer “us”.  The result is that they’ve made the people hate them:

American politics as a system has ceased to function, because the system has gone from representing people to representing money. And that is something that can only go well as long as the people have at least some of that money. Now that they’re increasingly shut out, the system shuts down; it’s inevitable. Which is why even rating agency Moody’s comes with an at first glance curious warning: even the credit raters now predict pitchforks.

But do they care?  Do they figure things are still on track, and they can keep it that way?

This guy Iliargo is pretty good, Soren.

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Posted by Søren Renner on March 18, 2010, 08:25 PM | #

Thank you for your excellent question: “At what point do we ask “Who is we?”“

We don’t ask. We answer. And not only in words. Another way to look at it is this: if you have to ask who we is, IT ISN’T YOU.

Of course you, GW, don’t have to ask that.

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Posted by cladrastis on March 18, 2010, 08:59 PM | #

The world is too complicated.  As an apple tree becomes overgrown with age, so too, civilization possesses many dead limbs and produces copious amounts of insipid fruit.  When the big storm comes (as storms inevitably do), it might just blow the whole thing over.

However, the prudent gardener will periodically prune his tree; indeed, it is necessary to do so to produce fruit of any quality (and what is a fruit, but the vessel of a seed?).  If skilled, such a gardener does not randomly hack off limbs, but chooses them carefully - for some branches are already dead, some are diseased or dying, while other branches produce the best fruit. 

Not only will the pruned tree produce bigger, sweeter fruit, but it may also weather the storms ahead.

Question is: who’s willing to tend to the orchard?

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Posted by Drifter on March 18, 2010, 09:58 PM | #

He’s wrong. His lamentation is that of a butthurt Fukiyama fanboy in the throes of cognitive dissonance.

Furthermore, forward or crash is a false dichotomy.

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Posted by Gorboduc on March 19, 2010, 07:38 AM | #

Cladastris: the tree analogy has clear echoes of the New Testament.
That doesn’t bother me, although it will perhaps upset a few others.
What DOES bother me is this:

and what is a fruit, but the vessel of a seed?

So the fruit is useless, and the seed must just go on to produce more seed?
I’m reminded of the joke “The chicken is just the egg’s way of producing another egg!”, and also of
“Jam yesterday, and jam tomorrow, but no jam today!”

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Posted by Søren Renner on March 19, 2010, 11:52 AM | #

Perfect.

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Posted by Søren Renner on March 19, 2010, 12:14 PM | #

The commandment to the apple tree:

Be multiple and fructify.

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Posted by Robert Reis on March 21, 2010, 11:19 PM | #

Meet your enemy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdwCYCkclg&feature=related

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