onlooker wrote:I do not consider many of the conclusions members have arrived at here to be doomerish but simply realistic given the available information. As for timetables that is irrelevant to the overall trajectory and dynamic that the human species finds itself in. So the flip side of criticizing premature end is nigh predictions is to assume thus that an end or doom scenario is not approaching or will not happen because it did not happen by so and so date
Yeah. onlooker, I think this is merely a result of our overload of binary thinkers. The whole "doom" thing is silly in that, for the most part, our lives are a process, just as decline and collapse is. It's easy to spot those who feel very secure about their futures, and those who are insecure; perhaps projecting their own inevitable "doom" on everything else. Some of us have determined that society, as it is, is in trouble, and expect that process to get worse over time. Critical inflection points may, or may not, be reached in our lifetimes, but our response is the same: Reduce one's expectations of, and reliance on, complex systems. Avoid the many traps that our current system sets; reduce one's liabilities, and embrace simplicity in ways that make one more productive in ways that matter. Above all, avoid distractions and delusionary paradigms that cloud one's vision of things. These things are meant to do only one thing; move so-called wealth around; away from you.
The age of diminishing returns.....