entertaining nut job

ENTERTAINING NUT JOB


Last night was the first night with a true testing out of the deluxe Bison Solar Heater ( SmartPool SunHeater for Above Ground Pools ). It wasn’t really a fair test, as we had unseasonably warm weather ( setting a record for the last thirty years ), but the water was scalding hot and had to have cold added to it before I could bathe. The remainder went into the thermos and was hot enough three hours later for washing dishes. Also last night, I watched the newly arrived DVD, “Collapse”( Collapse ), based on Ruppert’s book. Well, that was my thought upon ordering it. Overall, it was a hatchet job. Do NOT buy this DVD. Buy the guys book ( Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World ) for the same money. It contains ten times the information and isn’t someone else’s attempt at portraying the author as a crazy ass bastard, full of rage and emotion. Of course the guy is emotional. He’s been publishing for thirty years about how corrupt our system is ( Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil ) ( The Truth and Lies of 9-11 ) and by and large is being ignored. That gets old after awhile. And who cares if he is crazy. His information is accurate. No genius is recognized in his own time. Just look at me.

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Last weekend I tried to read “Power Hungry” by Robert Bryce ( Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future ). I read most of it but was able to skip a lot and still get enough information. His basic premise was that alternate energy is not enough power and he proposes natural gas, then nuclear, rather than wind and solar. As illustration, he points to a small obscure coal mine back east. The thirty-fifth largest in the country. And in terms of BTU’s it produces almost as much energy as ALL the solar ( Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit ) and wind ( Sunforce 44444 12-Volt 400-Watt Wind Generator ) in the country combined. He is correct there. But grossly inaccurate in his rosy future plan. He thinks that since the new technique of fracking has proved successful in Texas and the NY state area it will translate into a proverbial sea of gas wherever we look. No facts support this. He also totally ignores Peak Uranium. And his answer to Peak Oil ( Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (New Edition) )? He claims that we are finding more petroleum all the time, the transition to gas and nuclear is to reduce emissions. Yes, we are finding more oil all the time, Captain Space Cadet ( Danger in Deep Space (Tom Corbett Space Cadet) ). But we’ve been using far more than we find, for decades now. He ignores that part also. Another idiot to the rescue.

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During World War Two, the military and government were pretty forthright asking for cooperation from people and industries to help them in their propaganda efforts. It was for “the war effort”( Nim and the War Effort (Sunburst Book) ). We had to boost morale, so it was okay to paint things in the best light. I’d say by and large it was mostly positive rather than evil, with a few exceptions such as the false portrayal of Pearl Harbor as such a surprise. FDR, everybody’s hero ( ooooh, ahhhh, he is our hero since he turned the free enterprise system into a Commie Light state and employed us all in the military or war industry ), was the idiot that stole all the gold by force and devalued the dollar overnight 40% and the great unwashed idiot masses worshiped him. The same puke that was the bankers whore. Yes, geniuses, he tried to get us into the war because he was told to. And he had to goad the Japanese or Nazis to attack us. The details are unimportant. After the war, secrecy was more important. Now propaganda ( Propaganda ) is harder to prove or spot. But it never stopped, our masters brainwashing us for our own good. Part of that campaign is to discount any warning that exponential growth will lead to disaster and collapse ( keep the sheep content until they fall off the cliff ). Prophets of doom have been discredited as part of the propaganda.

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So what do you do? Forbid any warnings? No, you encourage them. Publish any crazy bastard that screams the sky is falling ( The Sky is Falling ). Make hundreds of movies about the end of the world ( preferably with giant ants or zombies ). Overexpose everyone to a mind numbing amount of doom and gloom. Then, it is automatically looked upon with distrust and scorn. When the papers scream of eminent death and destruction by crack babies growing up to be super criminals or chemicals from industry killing us all, or whatever, you stop believing the bad news. Then, when they publish nothing but feel good entertainment instead of real news, it is easy to go along. You saw for yourself that nothing too god awful bad happened. All is well. Remain calm. But, you proclaim, I’m different. I’m concerned.

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No, you are just like the guy that ignores the products on TV commercials but is still a consumer. You don’t think all is well, but you also think little baby steps in preps are going to solve the problem. You don’t think the ass will fall out of society. You think a few weeks of food and a gun will see you through. This is where I admire Rawles ( Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse )( he pisses me off with the long term slow collapse crap, but two sects of the same religion always disagree the worst over the small details ). He tells you to prep for multi-generational collapse. Since everyone listens to him rather than me, at least the word is getting out. Expect a long collapse. We disagree when it will get here, or how, but at least we agree it will be a bitch once it happens. You see, the propaganda HAS worked on you. You think you are courageous by stepping away from the herd by worrying about the future, but you don’t step too far out of line. You continue consuming, so those in power could care less why you are doing it. I’m not trying to be an ass here. To a good degree I am just as guilty. A foot in each world and hope your timing isn’t off. What I’m trying to say is that some crazy bastard out there is correct about how things end. By discounting his message we endanger our own lives.

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I know I tell you to have fun with the collapse ( Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ). By all means, let’s enjoy ourselves, have a few laughs. Be entertained by my paranoid ramblings. Just keep in mind that you still need to assume the worst and plan on that assumption. Do not be lulled into complacency just because the center has held so far. A growing population meeting declining resources equals die-off. Period. The details are unavailable, but that is the hard reality in broad form. On the remote chance things hold together until after your death, you can leave your preps to your heirs. It will be worth a lot more than money or stocks. Fight the propaganda!

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