[Twilight]

Anger is what you will see at gas stations. It is a reaction born of ignorance, not understanding. People will get angry, and you will be able to pick up and use their stuff afterwards.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'A')ll of us here are mentally prepared and have done a lot of preps, practically speaking. We are profoundly lucky, in that regard. People will not immediately start rioting in the streets. Many neighbourhood vigilante protection groups will immediately form , at the onset of crisis. Strangely, you may find your neighbourhood becomes more rather than less safe.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', 'L')udi, please explain for me or be more specific: "Now What?" Are you asking what You should do next? Or, what You should feel now?

[Gazzatrone]

Having read the scenarios that a depression will throw up, sure I don't doubt that any recession/depression that looks to be round the corner will be the issue.

The hard times will be when the Global Market tries to recover from a recession, and find that there isn't the means to create a boom after bust.

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'I')t would be better if people got angry now, while there may still be a little time to channel those emotions to head off the worst disasters, than later on, in food riots.

[Daculling]

Emotion is your enemy.

Emotion is generally regarded by Western civilization as the antithesis of reason.

[Heineken]

And we can see where "Western civilization's" emotion-rejection has led us. To disaster.

Emotions like love, empathy, and appropriate anger are what make us human. By rejecting them we end up with the cold, inflexible, selfish, murderous, cud-chewing society we have today.

Big Brother is doing a great job.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'L')udi, I don't believe there can be collective reaction to this impending crisis because a) it is too late (Hirsch), b) folks want to be in denial, and c) there is no way for us to predict how it will play out. It'll be different in different burbs, as is the nature of localization.

We have a built a fun society (for the majority of americans) based on cheap petroleum and it is going away. The country will probably continue to war against those who have stuff we want. I guess at one time it would have been possible to write our congresspeople and the newspaper and warn folks. But who knew?

I guess continuing to discuss the issue intelligently and positively here at PO is the best that we can do.

[roccman]

The reason why Americans don't have fun is because we use the earth. We are NEVER content. NEVER happy always wanting more and more and more.

This is not the way we use to be. We use to have a relationship with the earth. We use to be a part of the community of the living a species with an integral connection with the earth.

Even the wealthiest of Americans are insane miserable creatures. Drunk, addicted to sex, food, drugs, travel, shopping.

[emailking]

I'm American and definitely having fun right now. Most fun in my life so far. I will continue as long as it's possible.

[Heineken]

"Furniture, are you fun?"

---Soylent Green

[Heineken]

Get behind that curtain of redwoods and all problems go away, and stay away! Sing, kuckoo!

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'A')nd we can see where "Western civilization's" emotion-rejection has led us. To disaster.

Emotions like love, empathy, and appropriate anger are what make us human. By rejecting them we end up with the cold, inflexible, selfish, murderous, cud-chewing society we have today.

Big Brother is doing a great job.

[manu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', '[')url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion]Emotion[/url] is your enemy.

Emotion is generally regarded by Western civilization as the antithesis of reason.

[Heineken]

I was starting to think of Spock, but you beat me to it, manu.

Rejecting emotion confers some advantages but also comes at a cost.

Cur, it's obviously true that many people are extremely emotional (often in negative, irrational ways). I was referring not so much to individuals as to our society, the "corporate person." Think of our institutions: government, business, the law, the news media, medicine, even religion. They tend to reject all emotion or to favor only certain stylized, carefully delimited emotions.

Only an unfeeling society could build the sort of world we now have, which stomps on individuals and nature in the name of greater power and profits.

[threadbear]

There are people who are emotionally brilliant. Though intelligence and emotion are generally held to be separate, and interfering with one another. A highly developed intellect will never reach it's full potential without a corresponding evolution of the emotions. I don't think a person can be emotionally brilliant, either, without an intellect that is at least partially developed. I notice a lot of really stupid people have a really stupid emotional set too.

[Ferretlover]

I second that emotion.

[jdmartin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'T')he reason why Americans don't have fun is because we use the earth. We are NEVER content. NEVER happy always wanting more and more and more.

This is not the way we use to be. We use to have a relationship with the earth. We use to be a part of the community of the living a species with an integral connection with the earth.