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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby Hawkcreek » Fri 10 Mar 2017, 21:25:36

KaiserJeep wrote:You wimps want to check out because we are running short of energy, the environment is sick, and Trump won the election. You haven't even got a good excuse for angst, let alone depression.


I tend to agree. Most of their suffering is from social isolation, primarily caused by the same machine they are using to reach out with.
Most could be helped by becoming joiners - volunteer orgs, homeless shelter hash slingers, hospital bed pan cleaners, etc.
It is hard to see the world going by two by two, and know you are going back to your keyboard alone.
So like my parents used to tell me --- get the hell out of your room, and go play outside.
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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby Ibon » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 04:09:58

Hawkcreek wrote:
KaiserJeep wrote:You wimps want to check out because we are running short of energy, the environment is sick, and Trump won the election. You haven't even got a good excuse for angst, let alone depression.


I tend to agree. Most of their suffering is from social isolation, primarily caused by the same machine they are using to reach out with.
Most could be helped by becoming joiners - volunteer orgs, homeless shelter hash slingers, hospital bed pan cleaners, etc.
It is hard to see the world going by two by two, and know you are going back to your keyboard alone.
So like my parents used to tell me --- get the hell out of your room, and go play outside.


I totally agree as well. This is why I sometimes suggest that hell is not where we are heading but what we will leave behind. Angst and depression bloom when the body is unengaged and the mind is left to worry and chase dark shadows. Modern cyber culture promised connectivity but gave us isolation, each of us a private king in our cyber castle.
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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby Hawkcreek » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 12:24:27

Ibon wrote:each of us a private king in our cyber castle.

Don't know why, but that phrase rung with me. You have a way with words.
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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby Revi » Thu 16 Mar 2017, 12:51:05

I go easy on kids, because it is such a dark subject. I showed our film to some teenagers, but it really doesn't work for that age group because they aren't that interested in what's going on at that level. I try not to make them sad, because it isn't going to matter that much if they are peak oil aware or not.
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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 16 Mar 2017, 14:06:13

Revi wrote:I go easy on kids, because it is such a dark subject. I showed our film to some teenagers, but it really doesn't work for that age group because they aren't that interested in what's going on at that level. I try not to make them sad, because it isn't going to matter that much if they are peak oil aware or not.


Unless you make a big Hollywood style movie like the anti-war movies The Day After or Platoon you don't have a shot at convincing teenagers of much of anything about hard times in the future. Face it, unless they are very unfortunate their parents have done the best they can to provide the necessities of life and hope for a bright future.
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby jesus_of_suburbia » Thu 16 Mar 2017, 15:00:24

I'm in my early 30's. Times are probably objectively more difficult than when my parents were this age in terms of debt, upward mobility, home ownership, salary increase, the environment etc., but I never knew what that time was like. It's all kind of relative. We tend to normalize are situations rather quickly. I don't harbor any resentment towards my parents. You could make the same argument that having a child with the specter of nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was unfair and unethical.

My take is that it is what it is. Maybe I'll die of disease or starvation. Maybe I won't. Life is temporary, as is suffering. When I die, I envision nothing. I won't have a spiritual eternity to contemplate how crappy or fantastic my physical life was.
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Re: Peak oil and kids

Unread postby Revi » Thu 16 Mar 2017, 20:36:33

Tanada wrote:
Revi wrote:I go easy on kids, because it is such a dark subject. I showed our film to some teenagers, but it really doesn't work for that age group because they aren't that interested in what's going on at that level. I try not to make them sad, because it isn't going to matter that much if they are peak oil aware or not.


Unless you make a big Hollywood style movie like the anti-war movies The Day After or Platoon you don't have a shot at convincing teenagers of much of anything about hard times in the future. Face it, unless they are very unfortunate their parents have done the best they can to provide the necessities of life and hope for a bright future.


That's for sure! Thanks! Here's a promo for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owUIkQJ_btM
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