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GOOD GREED 2

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A society doesn’t Collapse Early And Avoid The Rush.  Individuals should of course, but I’m sure very few of you have already voluntarily downgraded your life styles to closely mirror a world with far less energy.  Good Christ on a pogo stick, I can’t even talk you into riding a bicycle to save money, get into shape and prep for no fuel.  And yes, I know some of you transitioned to the boonies with a commute to work and the lesser evil is having a car.  I’m talking of the near unanimous fear and loathing almost every single one of you has of giving up your motorized transport.  Regardless of circumstances.  Do you understand how embarrassing that is?  When all of us blog writers meet up in Idaho, they are all like, dude, I thought your people were hard core survivalists-what’s up with the trying to drive through Peak Oil?  I stand there all red faced having no answer and then everyone laughs and goes to the firing range and shoots all their cool HK-91’s and drink iced teas their trophy wives made them, along with eating cucumber sandwiches. 

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Don’t worry, I won’t cancel anyone’s membership in the Bison Brigade.  If we were old school and I had your paper newsletter address it might be a different story, but of course most of you are anonymous.  Let’s just move on by agreeing it makes sense to transition early.  When every single empire in the history of the Agricultural Age has collapsed after population outpaced energy ( or collapsed prior to that as a casualty of war ), what could I or anyone else know about the coming collapse?  I mean, other than you won’t have enough resources to survive real soon now.  And the quicker you downgrade your lifestyle the more of a stockpile you can have  to insure yourself ( with the caveat that your “insurance company” might still go teats up ).   So let’s move on to Kicking The Can.  Every human group ( and every animal ) acts the same way.  They breed past carrying capacity and then die off. 

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To think otherwise deserves the Hubris Of The Millennium Award.  We are ALL reindeer on a small island or microbes in a Petri dish.   We all breed like the soil/food/water/fuel/oil supply is infinite.  Look at your boss, expecting you to complete an extra infinite amount of tasks, in less time, for less money ( and THAT, right friggin there, speaks volumes uncountable in favor of having Unions ).  They truly have no problem believing in Growth Uber Alles.  Growth Forever And Ever, Amen.  And those are the supposedly educated ones.  This is how our feces flinging monkey tribe acts.  That This Time Is Different, that history is humbug.  That Our Tribe Is Bestest.  And the main culprit?  Greed.  Perhaps?  Yes?  Every swinging cheese dingus is greedy and thinks only of themselves.  It is easy and even required that in times of infant empire, social cohesion trumps greed.  There is enough for everyone ( everyone is still greedy, but a surplus allows the luxury of being both greedy and cooperative ).  You can look at our culture with its ZERO cohesion and readily conclude The End Is Nigh. 

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And greed ensures the rotted edifice survives just a smidge longer.  Greed, being a survival mechanism, benefit’s the survival of the fittest.  When everyone panics and does stupid crap like kills the oceans with Gore Warming ( let’s just set aside any issues of the warming being man made.  I see a  broken ocean conveyor off our east coast telling me ocean salinity is diluted.  Who gives a crap who caused the Artic to melt-it is a done deal ) to either profit themselves or wallow in the last days of luxury, the harm has already been done.  The point has already been reached where environmental destruction from overpopulation has occurred.  At this point, a society has no choice but to keep up the destruction to keep feeding everyone ( not that this works-so perhaps one should say Feed As Many As Possible To Keep Rebellion At Bay As Long As Possible ).  Overpopulation CAUSES soil loss.  By the time food production declines, there are already too many people around.  Baked into the cake.  So greedy businessmen find ways to stretch food out to feed everyone ( sawdust in McDonalds and everything frozen convenience food-wise ).  Greedy government workers, desperate to save their jobs, borrow unplayable loans to keep things going longer.  Everyone is motivated to wring more resources out of the place to keep Business As Usual going. 

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It does no good to call for a moratorium on resource use.  One, the die-off is already guaranteed.  Two, greed will ensure that the unscrupulous and immoral will survive, which means that to ensure enough survivors to continue the species, you can’t cooperate but must enter into conflict.  Three, human nature is confrontational anyway.  Greed is just a facilitator.  You’ve heard the saying, “why share my years supply of food with 100 people.  We all eat for half a week and then all die.  By hoarding my food I survive.  The other way, we ALL die with no survivors.”  Now, put that into a global context.  The 1% survival rate ensures species survival.  All the greedy humpers putting off the collapse a little while longer through greed, they are helping the few to survive.  Both by allowing training in slight deprivation to acclimate behavior and allowing stockpiling by the paranoid ( after the collapse starts, the ruthless stockpile by force- another species survival mechanism ). 

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Those writers advocating early collapse to husband resources fail to take into account the positive survival aspects of greed.  All poor human behavior has a flipside survival mechanism.  Being forced to live with a bad spouse helps the children.  Being forced to give unto Caesar means you won’t lose all your wealth to outsiders.  Eating high up the food chain feeds our brains caloric requirement.  And being greedy means rather than all of us dying, some will survive.

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