[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'a')nother Titanic metaphor from yesterday's Boston Globe:

[galacticsurfer]

I had an idea for a metaphor for the current system which I wrote into the post on "are we a death cult". this could be useful as very flexible. Maybe someone could expand on it.

Essentially we have created a body where oil is the blood, electricity is the nervous system, The financial markets/money, stocks, etc. is the air we breathe. This Frankenstein Monster unfortunately has cancer which is spreading to all the organs(runaway capitalistic growth paradigm). The heart will stop pumping blood(oil/gas/coal-peak oil theory) very soon and then there will be no more nervous system(electrical system - see olduvai gorge theory) signals working after that of course due to lack of energy. Perhaps of course the lungs will give out first(economic collaps due to mismanagement-overdebted, etc) and the monster will die of Pneumonia with blood still left in its veins. Unfortunately the monster is a fat bastard having eaten up all the fish in his pond, destroyed the soil on his farm, poisoned the air in his house making the atmosphere unbearably hot by his sweating and breathing and farting(Global warming) so that he could die of suffocation or overheating first.

[worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ot any others you think are better?

[seldom_seen]

I like "house of straw," as they used in The Road Warrior.
It sounds even less stable than a house of cards.

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('galacticsurfer', 'E')ssentially we have created a body where oil is the blood, electricity is the nervous system, The financial markets/money, stocks, etc. is the air we breathe. This Frankenstein Monster unfortunately has cancer which is spreading to all the organs(runaway capitalistic growth paradigm).

[galacticsurfer]

Cool and I thought I had had an original thought- I guess all geniuses think alike(haha).

Unfortunately I only got the idea while thinking much more seriously and deeply yesterday morning of my father-in-law who is now dying of cancer in the last stages. This shit is brutal.

Maybe I will get the book. Thanks for the reference.

[Wednesday]

I vote for the Fall of Rome and its not in the poll.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wednesday', 'I') vote for the Fall of Rome and its not in the poll.

[AmericanEmpire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')east in a vat of grape juice or bacteria in a petri dish.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AmericanEmpire', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')east in a vat of grape juice or bacteria in a petri dish.

[Aimrehtopyh]

"Jumping the shark."

[OilsNotWell]

"THE DONNER PARTY"


As the food that supports our technologically inflated populations begins to disappear, we will start to eat shoe leather, and then, finally, ourselves.