by shortonsense » Sat 11 Apr 2009, 21:43:30
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'W')ell say what you want about Savinar, he's still done a good job of getting people to reflect on the issue of epochal change of all kinds; climatic, energy, economic, etc... So--be nice.
In 2004, on this site, Matt used an example of how the end was closing in around us because of basic social disintergration, the example being the theft of diesel from farmers in California.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/us/california-thieves-prey-on-farms-diesel-fuel.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1So, 5 years later, do you think Matt, using common examples of various and sundry thievery in the news, a practice which he continues to this day, and the practice of which apparently recently caused him to erase 2/3's of his website out of some sort of irrational fear, is telling us about "epochal change", or just referencing stories in the news so that his readers will continue reading, AND BUYING, stuff from his site?
If Matt actually BELIEVED in the epochal change you reference, do you think he would be afraid of being sued by the MSM, when there are more important things to worry about? ( zombies, nukes, fedghetto's, starvation, gingivitis ) In 5 years since he became peak aware, and critical of modern urban areas, don't you think he would have LEFT his by now? If his investing advice, again referenced at this site by a comment ( and now I'm paraphrasing ) "if I had $1000 to invest in silver I could buy my doomstead by now" had been worth anything, don't you think he WOULD have, if he believed in what he advocates?
Sorry...until someone can show me how scaring people into a specific type of consumerism ( buy MY stuff, not THEIR stuff ) which is financially beneficial to the scarer, and detrimental to the financial health of the scaree, has more societal relevance than personal financial relevance, I just don't see this as "epochal change" or getting people to do more than "reflect" with their wallets in a specific, and targeted, direction.