On Mar 14, 11:55 pm, "M=F6bius Pretzel" <M0bius_P_Pret...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Meanwhile smart people are working on alternative energy resources.
Well yes but, a lotta stupid ones are going to starve. The way that
agribusiness grows food takes 10 calories of petrochemicals for every
1 calorie on your plate. Sheeple sorta have that figured out.
Wallace, in his anthro classic "Culture & Personality" observed that
when people's coping skills dont work so well any more, and they see
the system headed for hell in a basket, they engage in "magical
thinking". A term he coined. Thus we see the fundies speak of the
"Rapture" hoping Jesus will come to save their asses.
The Untied States of Denial actually has the alternative and
indigeneous sources of energy to get by, but not enough to support the
nuclear Christian family model. There's not enough heat for that many
houses. There's an interesting lesson in some obscure North European
settlements where they can see that after the Christians cut down all
the trees to heat their nuclear family homes, they had to give it up.
They were then replaced by Viking Longhouses in which people lived
polyamorously. One fire to keep everyone warm didnt use nearly as much
fuel.
but you know, pheremones being what they are, monogamy was impossible.
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