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THE Mad Max Scenario Thread (merged)
Re: Peak Oil - Mad Max perdition or Hippy Utopia?
by woodman » Fri 03 Aug 2007, 21:46:43
I don't know about Hippies or Mad Max but I imagine most of us will be living alot like the Amish. Those folks work hard and cooperate.
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Re: Peak Oil - Mad Max perdition or Hippy Utopia?
by TheTurtle » Fri 03 Aug 2007, 22:37:57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('woodman', 'I') don't know about Hippies or Mad Max but I imagine most of us will be living alot like the Amish. Those folks work hard and cooperate.
I'm willing to work reasonably hard and I think cooperation will be essential, but I have no desire to live anything like the Amish live.
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.” (Ted Perry)
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Re: The future will be more akin to Mad Max than George Orwe
by Kilgore_Trout » Fri 03 Aug 2007, 23:04:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kilgore_Trout', ' ')uh... sorry but stone age is exactly, literally what they were. If your best tools are made of knapped stone and bone, you are stone age.
I have been studying and photographing the Anasazi Culture for over 25 years.
The Anasazi were Neolithic. They had no written language, no knowledge of the wheel, no beasts of burden, and no knowledge of metals.
That photo is Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde NP. I used to be a Park Ranger there.
Google Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon NHP for a real 800 room, 5 story, passive solar heated apartment complex built circa 900 to 1150 A.D.
heh, so at least they were in"high" stone age.
that must have been a super-super-cool job
My all time top 5 national parks:
Arches, Smokey Mountain, Olympic, Mesa Verde, and Glacier
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Re: The future will be more akin to Mad Max than George Orwe
by Olaf » Thu 06 Sep 2007, 13:17:03
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ebyss', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'A')n infected tooth was quite often a death sentence.
True.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he lives of hunter gathers was very short and brutish.
Untrue. I might also add that Native Americans were stone age hunter gatherers until the arrival of Columbus and the conqiustadors. Though they warred with neighbouring tribes, their lives weren't short or brutish - but full and healthy, with elders being clear of mind, sound of body and the most respected member of the tribe. Hunter gatherers generally had fewer health problems than us, and toothache would not have been as common, most didn't suffer cavities as we do (down to diet btw - as are most of our health problems in the western world).
I was surprised to learn a little factoid while visiting a park on the site of an old French fort here in New York. The local Native Americans at the time averaged close to 6 feet tall while the French soldiers averaged between 4.5 feet and 5 feet tall. I would imagine this was largely related to diet and nutrition for the two separate cultures. Clearly the local population was living quite well all things considered.
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