Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Globe and Mail Article on Peak Oil Doomers
LATOC is best suited for the "worst case scenario" type of doomer preparation. For those that don't want to follow that route, you have other sites talking about how to mitigate problems instead of preparing for the worst while waiting for the **** to blow up in our faces.
But I think this blog article expresses my views much better than I can (towards the beginning of the article)
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Globe and Mail Article on Peak Oil Doomers
MattSavinar wrote:
JPL wrote:
Just some angry young man trying to rage against everything at once.
Your energy & your sharp intellect could also be a great force for change in the world if you would just turn it to positive ends.
Hmmmm...
JP
Sorry but I'm not so arrogant as to think I can "change" the world or that I am even smart enough to understand the complexities of how to go about changing a $50 trillion global economy. You'd really have to be pig-headed to think you know how to change things on that scale. You'd have to be something akin to God herself to even understand the complexities of these problems, let alone to think you are a "force" to change things for the better.
Remember what I told you in the other thread: those who claim they want to change the world actually want to control the world.
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There isn't any purpose behind the whole thing.
I run it as a news aggregation service and the forum gives people a place to discuss things they can't discuss with the general public.
Were you in my shoes, you would likely attempt to use it as a platform for your own grandiose visions of how things should be. This, by definition, assumes that you are so smart and evolved that you can even figure out what should be best for 6.5 billion souls. Since I don't share your grandiose delusions and don't seek to use my site to promote said delusions, you are unable to understand what the point of the site is.
No offense, but your thinking is deeply sick and egotistical even if you are sure you have good intentions. You can't understand me or my work because you and I are in completely different head-spaces with yours being filled with a lot of bizarre delusions of personal power. To you running an online news aggregation service and forum is just too simple and humble for there to be a point to it. That's your problem not mine.
I think I understand LATOC pretty well - I have spent some time there (grin).
You are also attempting personal attacks which would be very effective but I've already explained that I have Asperger's Syndrome which means - in simple terms - that I have no externalised emotions (that people like you would understand). Think of Spock and you're kind-of getting there. So accusing me of wanting to run the world is really not going to work (just a tip).
Anyhow, I appreciate what you're saying about those who want to change the world also wanting to run it - that's a valid point. That's an acute summary of 20'th century history but I personally don't think it's going to be valid in the 21'st.
Men & women of vision ARE going to be important in the future, for good or ill is yet to be seen. I know it's not going to be me, my unusual brain chemistry limits my chances of relating to people on an every-day level, but it MIGHT be you, that's all I'm saying.
Think about it. The dice are still rolling. No-one yet knows what lies in store for the future...
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