love it or leave it

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
No, not the usual patriotic proclamations from Union members confusing love of country for love of government ( and obviously confusing government mandated above market wages for the free market ), but a plea to all those who moved to the desert in a moment of confusion. I finally got a chance to read the Claire Wolfe article that all of my loving minions sent and let me extend yet another heartfelt thank you for it. If I had spent five bucks to read that one article I would have been pretty steaming and you would have had to listen to me rant and rave about it for weeks. I’ve never included Wolfe in my list of top authors, but I’ve also always admired her for the list of titles she’s put out. She’s Libertarian Lite to my Anarchist, but even that doesn’t bother me much. She’s an okay gal, but she’ll never be accused of being a survivalist. If she was, she wouldn’t be publishing in Backwoods. Bless their hearts, they try. But the end of mortgage payments on their asparagus patch scares the hell out of them and so their advice will always be polluted with unreasonable amounts of optimism. As far as Claire, let me put it this way. Remember the Casa Nada book on the reporter that moved to the desert to his $300 lot and lived a slacker lifestyle? He was not in a survival position due to water unavailability, but he was a “economic freeman”. Claire is like that. Not a survivalist, so her advice is great but limited in value to doomers.
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Having said all that, I now must take exception to her article. From what I can tell, she moved to Arizona. No harm done there since she stayed out of my neighborhood. But her tone in the article reminded me that in my own neighborhood, there are waaaay too many people that don’t want to be here. They want the warmth from the sun, but no cold. And they certainly don’t want to see only ten inches of rain a year. They want the cheap land, but then want to add a garden and a lawn and trees. They want an uncrowded California with unlimited water. And they want all the conveniences of the city out in the country. The are California Yuppie Scum immigrants and they have completely screwed up the entire West. You’ve heard me rant and rave about them before. But even as bad as they are, their bastard cousins are even worse. The folks that are from other western areas that still seem to think that there are magical pipelines that exists to meet their every whim and desire. They get a government job, or a Union wages job and suddenly they forget what it was like to grow up here. Most people growing up poor quickly forget what is was like and eagerly embrace a wasteful lifestyle. They now have money and water is no longer scarce. It flows out of the firehose size tap and a few bucks keeps it going. Money masks resource scarcity. The idiots down near Vegas are constructing a new borehole to access the dropping level of Lake Mead. Don’t conserve water, just pay to get at the diminishing supply.
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So please, don’t move to the desert hoping to recreate California in the 1930’s. Moving to any location and refusing to live with nature will eventually bite you in the ass, but doing that in the desert you will get there a lot quicker. I moved out here mainly to get away from the legions of idiots. It would be a shame if they followed me here and used up all the water. When is enough enough? Stop screwing with me at least the last few decades of my miserable life. Ya pukes. Stay back at the place you already screwed up. I’m not picking on Claire. Like I said, she seems like an okay gal. It just seems like she doesn’t belong here. I’m already a chauvinist, a social Darwinist and whatever else my minions have accused of being ( not that I’m not proud to wear the label ), I might as well be a geographic elitist. New bitches stay away if you can’t live here somewhat in harmony with nature. You heard it right, I can hug trees with the best of them when it benefits me. One thing I will pick on her about-her alternate energy system. No, you don’t need a friggin generator. Learn to live with a lot less juice and a few solar panels. I try to tell myself to be nice, she isn’t a doomer, Peak Oil is just a conspiracy theory by grumpy people. It just irrigates me when people think you can replicate a city lifestyle off grid. Mother Earth News says you can. For fifty thousand dollars. Silly bastards.
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