ahhh doom...

[thomasl]

I have been too busy with job and move to really participate in the forum....but then a few weeks back, a co-worker brings up peak oil..nothing like a closet-doomer meeting another one.  He must be kind of new to it, as he was visibly kind of freaked out...in the acute panic stage almost..trying to figure out what the hell he could do.  ahh sweet memories.  This episode reminds me to keep the prep up.

[Bill Hicks]

Tell the guy to calm down.  He still has time to deal with it and prepare himself. 

That's a lesson I had to learn myself.  I became PO aware in February '08 as the prices were shooting to the moon.  I became convinced that within a year the MZBs were going to be riding over the horizon.  Now I realize what I should have remembered all along, that betting against the staus quo (at least in the short term) is sucker bet when so many forces are aligned and determined to keep things as they are.

He should be comforted by the knowledge that it is far better to be PO aware instead being oblivious and having it hit him later like a speeding bus.   

[Hobo Vigor]

I'm only now learning of the PO model myself. But it's just a more quantitatively rigorous way of stating what I've always suspected, which is that this shit cannot last.

I always thought we'd nuke ourselves out of the picture. Or failing that, we'd run out of some vital piece of the clusterfuck puzzle, and the machines would run down, and the trucks would stop coming, and we'd all wander off into the woods and die.

I grew up in sprawlburbia and was free (to an extent probably unknown to kids today) to range all over the light-industrial wasteland of single-story, single-use, ticky-tack boxitecture.

Even a kid can look at that and realize it won't last.

Here's a blog that shows exactly how right I was about my developmental stomping grounds.

All this growing up doomed may have fucked my head up, but at least I didn't feel shock, panic, and paralysis when I finally got clued in about PO.

The OMG feeling was more like excitement because I'd finally stumbled across a real theory of what was going to pull my native habitat down the shithole. I knew it had to be something, and I had a feeling it was going to be sooner than we were told. PO didn't and doesn't panic me. It's more like the thrill of recognition. "So THIS is what's gonna fuck us! Great! I knew something had to do it!"

[mtlouie]

Hobo- You're a great addition to the forum.  Just wanted you to know that.

[Bill Hicks]

Hobo- You're a great addition to the forum.  Just wanted you to know that.

I agree...that was a spot on observation that was very close to my own experience. 

[pamela]

Hobo, you do have a way with words!
 
that was great!

[Hobo Vigor]

*blush*

Thanks!