[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I am playing with the idea that people need to be afraid. Just like some people need to put others down to elevate themselves, they need "something" to fear.

By having a stated fear (something their minds can justify), they can use that to focus on and control the other fears they can't control (or in some cases even identify).

They would use or even create a fear (for example) of pagans, or spiders that they can express. This allows them to identify or redirect their other fears onto this one thing or often group of people.

Instead of being afraid of "the man" or their government being out of control they will re-direct that onto their wife, the neighbours dog, or the bobcat they are sure is stalking their property (and is probably a skunk).

Any thoughts?

[Andrew_S]

Sounds plausible. I certainly find peak oil a fascinating hobby.

[Falconoffury]

People think too small to think far enough into the future to worry about peak oil. The system needs to be shocked. We need gas lines at every station and a president begging people to drive less.

[Specop_007]

I'm scared of mods

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m scared of mods

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m scared of mods

[I_Like_Plants]

I'm sure with you there Saxe.

This place is like the Simpsons episode when the kids take over the high school.....

"Now chew through my ball sack..."

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome of them have shown here that the step from modureiting a web forum and running a place like Bergen Belsen would be a very small step.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '
')Are you still pissed that your request to be a mod was turned down?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '
')Are you still pissed that your request to be a mod was turned down?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')I've never even been winked at.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m scared of mods

[Falconoffury]

Specop shouldn't fear me. He has lots of guns, and we would probably end up on the same side in a civil war against the government.

If he just fears my ideas, then I don't blame him. Heck, I'm afraid of them.

Back to the topic, I really think that peak oil has to hit home and cause a bit of suffering to make people really take a hard stance on it. Nothing like a little suffering to jolt people into action. Lately, people have been taking on huge debts, but they still have their mccars and mcmansions.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'S')pecop shouldn't fear me. He has lots of guns, and we would probably end up on the same side in a civil war against the government.

If he just fears my ideas, then I don't blame him. Heck, I'm afraid of them.

Back to the topic, I really think that peak oil has to hit home and cause a bit of suffering to make people really take a hard stance on it. Nothing like a little suffering to jolt people into action. Lately, people have been taking on huge debts, but they still have their mccars and mcmansions.

[Pops]

I think fear is the great motivator; fear of going hungry, of not being attractive to the opposite sex (or a whip weilding mod if that is what blows yer skirt up), fear of failure, whatever.

Fear is healthy, without fear you get self-indulged, fat, couch potato consumeaholics who not only have their head in the sand; they don't even know the sand exists.

Personally I think the US at least could use a little dose of genuine (not politically motivated) reality/fear.

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This is for you PMS;

For schwein, I’m not sure that post PO the mods won’t BE the zombies.

And Ludi, when did you ever disagree with anyone?

[Schweinshaxe]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome of them have shown here that the step from modureiting a web forum and running a place like Bergen Belsen would be a very small step.

[Carlhole]