tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post8777496312171800361..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: oil for nothingJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-59071999447887016432017-08-29T09:52:52.418-07:002017-08-29T09:52:52.418-07:00Of course, Hippies didn't help the image of th...Of course, Hippies didn't help the image of the poor, either. And hating the poor used to be about hating the minorities. Before that, it was immigrants. It has always sucked to be poor, culturally, here in the US. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-56408974862938928172017-08-29T09:44:22.171-07:002017-08-29T09:44:22.171-07:00I think people are looking for a big, lights-in-th...I think people are looking for a big, lights-in-the-sky sign that suddenly we are in a precipitous drop in energy/resources/wealth. They have been so brainwashed by simplistic economic theory that unless gas is $20 a gallon then it can't be a resource that is in trouble. Decline is hard to see when it has already been happening for 30-40 years, bit-by-bit. I liked (I know... your nemesis) the comment a while back on the druid dude's site, "What does peak oil look like? Look around you, pretty much like this." If you think new shiny smart phones mean we can't be in decline, then you can't see it. If you see that people are working harder and harder to get less and less and the wealthy are only getting wealthier by taking more and more from those below them, then you get it. I don't need to see oil production numbers to know we're in decline. When a society is on the rise, there is at least a little bit of "all ships rising with the tide" because the powerful have enough resources to buy off the masses. I would guess that is why demonizing the poor became so popular in the 1980's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com