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TOO SERIOUSLY

Okay, really, just what the hell is going on out there in Doom And Gloom Land?  I’ve been accused of being off my medication for years, and yet it seems like the majority of doom writers are all exhibiting signs of reality withdrawal.  Rawles has fame and fortune and a pretty secure future in both this economy and one after a catastrophe, yet acts like churning out a couple of potboiler sequels is too much for him and partially retires ( if his latest book is an example of what retirement produces, we really need him to come back to work full time ).  I can’t fault Rawles for being the latest Yuppie Survivalist Guru- if it wasn’t him it would be someone else, and he is obviously sold on the concept and is living that life as genuine, so no hate here- it is just that I’m confused where he went off the rails.  The boy was the epitome of Type A hard charging take no prisoners career, and now seems to be taking it easy ( I know he would object, and give me his sixteen hour a day schedule.  What I’m saying is, compared to what he WAS doing, this seems like a sort of retirement ).  Then we have that McPherson ( I’m going by faulty memory here, forgive me if I’m a bit off ).  You know, the Arizona professor who dropped out of that rat race to preach about Gore Warming.  He was successful enough that he even emulated the man, flying all over the globe to tell us people flying all over the globe was killing the planet.  His website, “Nature Bats Last” was pretty good reading, a bit of a modern version of the book “Overshoot” ( the Malthusian bible ), and then it too went off the rails.  I mean, almost every article had some seriously dark undertone of suicidal innuendo.  If he wanted to start up one of those planes and suicide it into an IRS building, okay, I can understand checking out if it meant something.  If it was meant to galvanize action ( although, realistically, in today’s culture all that would amount to was a sick entertainment for the masses so it wouldn’t mean a thing ).  Remember the book “Ecotopia”?  All those terminally ill cancer patients going suicide against strategic federal targets to win the war of independence.  Those did some good.  But this guy, he just sounded like a whiny little bitch who couldn’t stand the thought of the Earth melting down from warming. 

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This guy went from being a crusader to just being scary.  I dropped his site before he decided to go Grape Kool-Aid.  I don’t need to be around that bummer, man.  First off, you can’t guarantee that we are all going to die.  Even if we are, so what?  You go down fighting.  And no, not fighting the establishment ( more on that talking about the next dude ).  You go down fighting all the ass-clowns who come to take your last kernel of wheat.  I don’t know f there is actually an afterlife, but if there is you can probably count on Hell for suiciding, but Valhalla for going down like a warrior ( suiciding in a fight, for a grand purpose, is fighting ).  Go down fighting, because then, if the human race survives, they have a better gene pool.  You actually owe it to humanity, which, despite all its warts, did you a pretty good solid by providing you the Twentieth century.  So now we move on to Survival Acres Dude.  He has started publishing articles again, despite his last proclamation to never to do so again ( hey, no judgment here.  You can’t ever eject the writing bug after it infects you.  Kind of like malaria ).  I was enjoying them, as he was highlighting another’s writing about the recent East Coast

Cold spell ( as Alaska saw above freezing temps ).  Okay, I’m pretty much sold on the current severe weather events ( before, a few weird droughts.  Convincing, but not conclusive.  Then, Elko has its second Very Mild Winter in a row.  Now I’m feeling the religion, brother.  Now, a mild Alaska February.  How much more convincing do we need?  Of course, I’ll never be sold that it is exclusively Man Made.  Which, as we’ve talked about before, is irrelevant.  The tripping point is past and Very Bad Things now baked into the cake ).  But the next article ( I believe 3-5-15 ), he goes bat crap crazy, starting to get excited we all need to Do Something To Stop This Tragedy Unfolding Which Will Kill Us All NOW!!!!  Wow, calm down dude.  First off, you told us a long time ago that we were past the tripping point.  Even if we halt all burning of carbon fuel today, we are still humped.  At this point, the burning is keeping us alive a bit longer ( a slight misnomer.  We don’t so much burn ALL fuels in agriculture as utilize them in other inputs ) in oil to food, electric for warming and cooling in extreme environments.  Second, even if Americans stopped, you still have those Chinese millions picking up our slack, and they do it for the same economic reasons we do.  Third, why are you screaming, hooting and hollering about evil oil companies?  Ever hear of supply and demand?  Every swinging dingus out there you demand do something, is driving a friggin car.  That is doing exactly the wrong thing.  The oil company is raping the environment on their orders.  And last, why ask folks, a survivalist audience, to waste energy and time protesting or politicking?  They need to tend to their own families survival, as you long ago suggested.  And I’m the one that’s gone crazy?

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Okay, moving on to the East Coast, with Kunstler and the Druid Dude.  Kunstler has had his plate full, having almost died from a vegetarian diet ( as an aside, the American Energy Crisis Blog Dude was sick for like the last two years with that Super Bug he got in the hospital, but he also fits right in here with Crazy Survival Dudes.  Read his last January 2015 article, jumping on the American Forever Fracking bandwagon ).  But he seems to be settling down with a few chickens and a few square yards of raised bed gardens.  And SLOWWWWWLY writing very little.  Which is kind of normal as he’s been at this at least thirty years with only a few books to his name.  Here he is, ten years in from The Long Emergency, with most of his projections ( which were some of the first mainstream warnings ) unfolding, and rather than prepping like crazy, he continues at his shuffling pace both personally and in his blog.  To be fair, he is an old guy and his health is just now improving, but I smell a definite lack of panic.  The Druid Dude is, of course, the only one of the bunch not really going nuts in some way or another ( even Engdahl-again, spelling?, author of Century Of War, jumped on the abiotic oil bandwagon to distance himself from panic- mongering ).  He is, if anything, settling down into enjoying his success and publishing like there is no tomorrow.  Granted, that could be his way of warning us of increased danger.  Getting the word out wider.  But to me, and I could be wrong, granted, he seems to be joining the conventional economy as a successful author.  Enjoying the fruits.  As if it will all matter in a few years.  So, at least from my view, he seems to be doubling down on his Low Slow Long Collapse theory rather than refine it as events unfold. 

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It seems paralysis rules here, the worse things get.  Some get lethargic, others get overly excited to the point they are being counter-productive.  And these are our “experts”.  Does doing something, even if it is wrong, exist outside the Marine Corpse ( spelling intentional ), as a good rule of thumb?  Well, if nothing else, it’s an entertaining show.

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