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Some time ago, over wails of anguish and denial, the Druid Dude set out to show how subsidized and vulnerable the Internet was.  In short, only a modern unique set of fortunate circumstances are allowing the Internet to consume such huge amounts of electricity and resources sold at bottom barrel prices to insatiable consumers.  What I would like to add today is the parasitic nature of most of its users, besides the end consumer, to illustrate why those vulnerabilities will wreck the Web relatively quickly once economic forces are altered.  If it happens independently of the general collapse this concerns me as my publishing is dependent upon its functioning ( I don’t know if I’d have enough subscribers to even justify buying a CD burner to send a monthly e-magazine through the mail ).  If it happens as part of the bigger collapse then of course it is no big deal in the great scheme of things.  You do have to admit, it is a bit scary how crack cocaine addicted we all have become on our computers hooked up to SkyNet.  I wouldn’t miss e-mails ( the original function of the first Net was University communications to stop research duplication, not nuclear war communications survival as most assume.  That might have been budgetary propaganda ) as mostly all I get is commercial mail.  I would miss publishing, because before the Net, you had to pay to get readers.  Not just advertising but actual publishing ink and paper and postage for them.  Self-publishing was NOT a paying proposition.  What is the point of writing if nobody reads you?

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But most of us ARE news junkies on the web, and it provides nearly all our entertainment.  Between shopping at Amazon for books and streaming Netflix, I’m as addicted to Internet entertainment as all those fools on Facebook and so we come to my main point about today’s reliance on the net.  It IS entertainment far and above any of its other functions, the modern day television ( even heavily used by those who denounce TV as Lucifer’s Glass Enema ).  There is no sense in subsidizing its existence outside of being the other vital half to our handlers of bread and circuses placating the masses.  Right now, corporations profit off of its use while the proletariat is mesmerized by its warm glow, and we all know the ultimate fate of corporations in a trade war Peak Oil PetroDollar Death economy-eventual doom.  In the meantime, companies use the Internet as another robot replacing workers-big time.  The Post Office replaced pesky hard to sort and deliver first class mail and advertising catalogs with parcels.  Without the Internet pimping online stores, they wouldn’t have enough business to stay in business.  The only reason there are any Mom & Pop businesses left in this wretched economy is the Internet.  They sure can’t afford rent for a retail business.  Amazon, much to its surprise, found itself downloading over half its book sales rather than mailing physical copies of them ( Amazon couldn’t even  have started without the net ).  Newspapers have no one but themselves to blame for their demise, wretched content not worth anyone’s time let alone their money, but some can still limp along on the Internet. 

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Too many businesses are alive just because of for-all-intents-and-purposes free to use Internet.  When the economy gets bad enough that those aren’t even in business ( you still need customers even if everything else is free to create and move about ), there is your signal the Internet is dead and just waiting to be buried ( one imagines the last subsidy to go will be the NSA propping up the data gatherers ).  Most likely it will happen in our lifetimes ( and by “our” I mean my mostly 50+ year old readers-by the time we are old enough to prep properly we are almost too old to enjoy the collapse, mores the pity ).

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