Ibon wrote:Would be if this doom orientation had the power to freeze you into just complaining and doing nothing pro active with your life.
OK, here comes the judgmentalism. Monte said it himself. Peak-oil is economic, is it not? Well, I'm doing something. I'm making a very good living in BAU while I'm still able to do so. That is my competitive advantage, which is not the standard doomer off-grid playbook. It doesn't score a lot of points with those with their doomsteads, but at my current salary I can afford to weather very expensive oil. I would not be nearly as well positioned had I abandoned my IT career and moved to the doomstead to sell organic veggies.
So, do you still think I'm not doing something pro-active with my life? I'm making a grave error? That's your prerogative to say so. But I spent years weighing the pros and cons of zigging or zagging. I've made my peace following this path. It works for me.
Do people want to transfer this thread into nothing but people bragging about their solar arrays and their water catchment systems? I find that kind of doomer bragging just illustrates how insecure some people are, that they have made such a high-cost bet on things going to hell in a handbaket that they need to justify unplugging from the rat-race. I'm not going to come down on anyone for taking the Mosquito Coast approach as long as they don't come down on me for holding onto the BAU career track for the time being.
Ibon wrote:Who is this "doomer" if not your alter ego that you go around projecting on to others?
It's a conglomeration of the attitudes that some posters project. You don't think it's accurate but it is. If I need to compile some statements of people here to prove it, I will. Sometimes I think people don't really step back and evaluate what they write and how it comes across. It just streams out of their fingers like a reflex.
Ibon wrote:creative force rather than a reason to just whine and complain.
Whining and complaining cuts both ways though. There's nothing Orlov or Kunstler writes that can't be classified as whining or complaining. And Greer isn't far behind.