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mdehnersWhich for many folks is NOT the attitude toward EOTWAWKI but somehow so me;>. Both observations and Sight don't give me much hope for Humanity. Now, I don't see/See Extinction(for one, we exist in too many biomes and too many isolated communities that it'd take a Dinosaur Killer to get rid of us)but our present civilization?
It's too resource and maintenance dependent for a species that is so stingy and lazy. There was an example locally where a neighboring town cut taxes so much that they couldn't even replace street lights when they burned out, let alone fix pot-holes. Folks STILL "bitched" about taxes even then. Sadly, it took the business community who was losing tourist dollars to "ram" through tax legislation so at least the lights stayed on(amazing how tourists don't like walking down dark unfamiliar streets;>....). Watching both local and world events I don't see much more than a couple of decades left.
But then there is ennui. Neither of us have long lifespans or kids. My brother's are so Modern that they've disowned their parents because they gave them everything they wished for and didn't "prepare" them for the "real world". Seeing them hunt for rats to feed their kid in Portland doesn't particularly bother me(I don't See the boy surviving at all. He's the type that when the grid goes will sit and sit and die waiting for someone else to fix it...). None of the really bad stuff will happen till both of us are gone so it doesn't really affect us. And Honestly, I think I'll do fine in an agricultural or even Hunter-Gatherer culture for future Incarnations. Heck, if it wasn't for the Diabetes, I could survive without aids meds for more than a decade foraging for me and Chuck in this one;>
Cheers,
Pat
It's too resource and maintenance dependent for a species that is so stingy and lazy. There was an example locally where a neighboring town cut taxes so much that they couldn't even replace street lights when they burned out, let alone fix pot-holes. Folks STILL "bitched" about taxes even then. Sadly, it took the business community who was losing tourist dollars to "ram" through tax legislation so at least the lights stayed on(amazing how tourists don't like walking down dark unfamiliar streets;>....). Watching both local and world events I don't see much more than a couple of decades left.
But then there is ennui. Neither of us have long lifespans or kids. My brother's are so Modern that they've disowned their parents because they gave them everything they wished for and didn't "prepare" them for the "real world". Seeing them hunt for rats to feed their kid in Portland doesn't particularly bother me(I don't See the boy surviving at all. He's the type that when the grid goes will sit and sit and die waiting for someone else to fix it...). None of the really bad stuff will happen till both of us are gone so it doesn't really affect us. And Honestly, I think I'll do fine in an agricultural or even Hunter-Gatherer culture for future Incarnations. Heck, if it wasn't for the Diabetes, I could survive without aids meds for more than a decade foraging for me and Chuck in this one;>
Cheers,
Pat
