by savethehumans » Thu 11 Aug 2005, 05:09:02
I just got back to this thread (I don't visit Open Discussion often), so I apologize to Chuck for the lateness!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here seem to be many in Denton that are PO aware, even besides yourself.
It may SEEM so, Chuck, but I personally haven't met any. A couple apparently tried to start a Meet-Up PO group, but that fell through. (As they met on Wednesdays, I couldn't have joined, anyway, but the whole thing fell flatter than a pancake, anyway.) I think there's a group in Plano, if you ever want to check that out. Me, I don't have a car (not because I'm PO aware, just that I never could afford another one after my one and only died in 1992).
A group DID actually have a showing of "The End of Suburbia" back in 2004; I am sooooo lucky to have been able to see it!
People here are like people everywhere: mostly sheeple, but even the potentially "wise" prefer/accept voluntary denial. What PO means (especially with GW and Climate Change thrown in) is just too inconceivable for people raised in during the Oil Party of the 20th Century. I see right now as the ocean rolling back to help out the incoming tsunami (i.e., people note that something's wrong, but just can't/won't grasp the enormity). When TSHTF, it's gonna be like the tsunami--hard, fast, devastating, merciless. Doesn't matter how slow/fast depletion's gonna be, or when the Actual Date of Peak is/was. Society and Economy are built on eggshells, stacked up domino-like, and will fall like dominos (or the infamous house of cards). Time's virtually up, even though things LOOK pretty much like they've "always" been. (I'm always amazed at how 20-30-40 years = always, in our silly human minds.)
I'm currently unemployed (for a salary, anyway, my time's filled with things I'm doing, none for $$), living off a small inheritance my dad left me last year. I shall soon seriously think of what happens next; there's little I can do about it, though. Before inheritance, I could only work jobs that barely--if that--kept my head above water; I've no reason to believe it will be any different (in fact, it's probably WORSE out there now!); just kind of trying to have faith that God loves his more foolish children (like me!). I do know that I've been given the intelligence and sense to come to realize what's going on; I think that might be of SOME help in the times ahead! Also, maybe some sort of bartering system might arise--exchanging the talents/items you have for other talents/items may be the only way some of us survive what's coming.
Doomer? Maybe. Trying to be realistic, sensible, and creative against a scenario that has little cornucopia with which to present anyone! I, too, thank Jack for his story--he seems to be writing from a realistic/sensible/creative point of view!
Glad this site, and other PO/GW/CC aware folks are dropping in here on a regular basis. It makes one feel less alone. Thanks for letting me vent.
And, Chuck? Getting out of Dallas in the next 12-18 months might be something to consider. Cities may seem to be good food/aid-distribution points, but they will quickly become too DANGEROUS for such things. Where you'd go--I don't know. Somewhere where there's enough capable people to become the basis for a community that wants to do more than just survive. Different posters here have worked toward their definition of that; some of them are likely to be right. Me, I'm staying put. Despite Denton being the SW Regional HQ for FEMA Telecommunications, I do sense the components for such a community are here; it's just that I don't know if the components will come together in time. But that's a worry we ALL have, no matter where we are. But cities and suburbs--that's just no good. Just saying.
Glad to talk to a fellow Texan, though!
