druid doomer denier

DRUID DOOMER DENIER

Just as Commander Zero gave me plenty to write about a few weeks ago when he suggested that every prepper tool should cost at least a days wages if you were to be considered worthy of saving, now the Druid Dude is up to his usual deriding all claims of doomers that The End Is Nigh And We Are All Going To Die.  He doesn’t deny that the end is indeed nigh, but his unrealistically optimistic ray of sunshine blowing out of his ass blinding most of his readers gives the illusion that once you embrace permiculture gardening you shall be a happy little peasant serfing ( intentional misspelling ) the collapse in style.  As I’ve said more than once, the Druid Dude is forever in my limited bro-mance circle, from having introduced me to the pretty close to one book fits all doomer needs “Overshoot” by Clatton.  The Druid Dude is far smarter than I, yet having the same source material refuses to acknowledge that pessimism is the order of the day.  That is our fundamental difference.  Like a close member of your family, you love him even as you admit he’s kind of a douche.

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Last week ( start of February, 2017 ) he was yet again hating on the Calamity Corps for ignoring history.  He unfolded the cycles of history to prove to us that empires fell and rose and civilizations collapses as others prospered.  End result, while the economic collapse will be painful it will be business as usual in a pre-carbon fuel way ( the gist of his stair step collapse theory ).  Now, if I was one of the faithful for this kind of soft collapse, I think I’d be a bit pissed that while the Druid Dude is entirely correct, it is only in the macro sense.  Some areas will be less effected than others, but those areas suffering the most will primarily be where all his readers will be.  They will experience a Rwanda circa the ‘90‘s, not a Great Britain who signed over its colonies more or less peacefully and settled into a Forever Crap Economy.  I’ve pointed this out several times, and you would be a fool to ignore the end of oil ushering in the end of oil based agriculture with STILL increasing overpopulation even if the rate of increase has fallen.  The Druid Dude has such a wonderful grasp of history that he is only seeing the big long term picture and ignores the immediate horrid journey to get there.

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I look at history in a generalist way.  And looking at the collapse of empires, you always see a near complete die-off.  Humanity in general is never, ever threatened.  But the imperial citizenry is pretty much double dog dingus humped.  Our imperial implosion will indeed be just like any other in history, just as the Druid Dude ascertains.  Which means that the center imperial nation is wiped off the map with only a minimum of successful escapees.  Population will be severely reduced.  Because one of the defining characteristics of collapsing civilizations is denuded soil.  That means you can’t feed your people.  Yes, we will return to decentralized organic farming.  AFTER the friggin die-off!!!  Sweet Baby Jesus On A Pogo Stick!  90%+ die-offs are absolutely no picnic.  They usually include close enough to everybody that you should just count on being part of the body count, a twisted bleeding corpse surrounded by your semi-auto weapons in the suburbs. 

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The Four Corners feathers not dots Indians had a nice civilization going on.  Then the long term precipitation changed and they couldn’t grow enough crops to survive.  Let alone build.  Only a few percentage escaped ( writers of said civilization like to give Happy Joy Hope that they all dispersed to neighboring villages and were greeted by distant family members with open arms.  This is a great theory, if we assume the weather didn’t change there for the worse-which to me seems like a lot to assume ).  The Mayans had a swell civilization going on in the jungles of Central America.  Then the rains stopped and the area never recovered.  Greece never recovered for two thousands years plus after they destroyed their farmland from overpopulation.  When the Spanish visited the Inca’s, those who survived the diseases were quickly killed off in the silver mines.  The Mongols had no problem accepting unconditional surrender, but if not they could easily kill every single non-new slave in an entire metropolis.  Now, granted, the last two examples were unlimited warfare rather than civilizations destroying themselves from resource exhaustion, but just like Rome that is usually just the slightly quicker collapse of an empire/civilization already on its way through decline.

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Going by historical example, as the Druid Dude wishes us to do, you might notice that the end is usually full of slaughter and starvation, disease and enslavement.  Not happy peasants tending their perennials in blissful contact with Mother Earth.  Why, oh why, great exalted Poo-Ba of the Druid Order, must you show me how much you hate me, when all I do is shower you with love and buy all your books to support your further research?  And, ah, yes, this time will be different.  Not because history won’t fulfill another cycle, because it will, but because the entire globe is now a resource collapse area once the oil stops pumping.  The dark ages will last about a thousand years, given the time it takes soil to rejuvenate.  At least in the fortunate areas.  How about that for a slight disruption of the historical cycles?  Yes, it will resume at a much later date.  But I certainly don’t call that a soft collapse.  I don’t call it a return to normalcy after a fall, not when the whole planet will see such a huge die-off. 

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Eventually, yes, all will be well once population drastically falls below solar economy output.  Then after that Dark Age we will indeed restart the whole ugly cycle.  And yes, during that Dark Age, family life will function as biologically normal.  But you can’t discount the die-off, because without it family life CANNOT return to normal.  And a 99% die-off is nothing other than a calamity.  Only by stretching out the time frame and averaging out deaths does it turn into background noise.  For those boots on the ground, at the time, the noise will be hideous.  And to think the die-off will last generations?  How can you think that when the oil won’t last that long ( and all our food is oil based, yo )?

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