tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617568.post625424954855345884..comments2023-05-26T05:32:16.537-05:00Comments on Edge of Chaos: New Rules (Apologies to Bill Maher)Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14511045883879753073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617568.post-19910984439199848592009-09-09T14:48:10.970-05:002009-09-09T14:48:10.970-05:00Chaos welcomes the sage comments of a fellow trave...Chaos welcomes the sage comments of a fellow traveler and Texan (although how one could be proud of the benighted people of this state is quite incomprehensible). Those who are long time followers of Peak Oil know exactly the disorienting feeling of observing the masses continuing their wasteful and unhappy lives, oblivious to their own profligacy and willfully ignorant of the most basic questions of resource and habitat depletion, overpopulation, and the defacing of the planet and its other beings. After waiting for four years or more to see, well, not much, Chaos has become just a trifle cynical. Or realistic. Take your pick.Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511045883879753073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17617568.post-12888583758813145852009-09-09T14:25:00.724-05:002009-09-09T14:25:00.724-05:00That about sums it up.
Jay Hanson (dieoff.org fam...That about sums it up.<br /><br />Jay Hanson (dieoff.org fame) is running a discussion on environmental cues and leadership. He makes some good points about how decisions are made, based not on facts and logic, but on presentation.<br /><br />Which describes well how our media system, shapes our lives.<br /><br />The media decides what we talk about and don't talk about. It defines the limits to knowledge we are allowed to have about issues. It guides us to make decisions that seem logical, in the framework of the presentation.<br /><br />But stray a little outside the presentation and you're provocateur, a looney, a tinfoil hat conspiratist...<br /><br />Peak Oil? Bah, those godlike environmentalist whackos, are stopping our titans of industry from fulfilling their godly duty of getting God's oil out of the ground! Oil can't run out! Jesus would never let that happen!<br /><br />And so it goes...Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.com