[Bas]

enjoy!

The Trigger Effect

PS pay attention to flight 911 for you more mystically inclined doomers

[MattSavinar]

wow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'w')ow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it.

[MattSavinar]

25 minutes into it. Now the city has collapsed and we're fleeing out to the hinterlands where it's either kill or be killed. "What in your comfortable urban life has prepared you for this?" asks the host.

[MattSavinar]

28 minutes into it and it looks like we've killed the owners of the farm and are now fumbling about trying to hook up a plow to some cows.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '2')5 minutes into it. Now the city has collapsed and we're fleeing out to the hinterlands where it's either kill or be killed. "What in your comfortable urban life has prepared you for this?" asks the host.

[firestarter]

A great find! I watched this 20+ years ago in my college analytical chem class and remember being a bit freaked out over it, even though I was drunker than a skunk the night before.

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'w')ow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'w')ow, that is good. I"m only 18 minutes into it.

[MattSavinar]

at 37 minutes now we're examining egyptian artifacts. on a wall they've got tax collections being depicted. pretty funny actually.

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'a')t 37 minutes now we're examining egyptian artifacts. on a wall they've got tax collections being depicted. pretty funny actually.

[killJOY]

WTF???

Was this made in the dark ages? They show people SMOKING on an airplane!

[essex]

I recorded this in 1978 and have been using it ever since in my teaching. Good that it is online as my videotape is getting rather worn ! The others in the series are also all on the theme that inventions don't come from thin air but rely on incremental advances made by others. This episode is the best IMO.

[lys3rg0]

They actually made 3 seasons of Connections, a total of 40 episodes. I'm downloading season 1, got to ep 5 already. I predict i'll have a very sedentary weekend in front of the PC

[jdumars]

This reminds of a super-obscure doomer movie called "Deadly Harvest"

From their description: " My God! How bleak can it get?! The movie details the plight of North America when global weather patterns shift causing crops to freeze and harvests to be lost. The government realizes that there is no food left and before long, it's every man for himself. "

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ElijahJones', '
') payback, being wise enough is all you need.

Will anyone else here admit that part of the allure of peak oil and climate change etc. is that it means there is something more? It means we might see something really tremendous? There might be a chance at a different world then the one we now know?

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ElijahJones', '
')
Perhaps we can learn a few lessons from the folly that lead us to our current state of peril?

[I_Like_Plants]

I just finished watching The Trigger Effect for the 2nd time and the 2nd episode for the first time.

It's better on Youtube, does not freeze up and the volume is normal.

Burke has risen in my estimation about 1000X.

I caught some of this series in the 80s and always have thought of it as being rah-rah horray for technology.

That's not what Burke meant at all. He lays it down in the first episode, technolgy is a trap. Elevators are a trap, modern farms are a trap, subways are trap, modern cities are a trap. He uses the word trap a lot - almost enough.