[nero]

It seems to me that there is a large variety of people on this forum but that essentially it comes down to just a few archetypes.

1 The Lifeboat Builder who is moving heaven and earth to build a lifeboat for himself and his family to protect them from the coming storm.

2. The Bailer who seas the storm coming and chips in to start bailing out our ship in preparation for the coming storm.

3. The Lookout who feels that the best thing he can do is keep a sharp lookout for the coming storm.

What I don't see on the forum are:

4. The Mutineer who feels he must grab control of the ship to steer itt clear of the storm

5. The clueless Passenger who has no clue that the ship might go down

6. The Deckhand who trusts the captain is doing his job as he himself is doing his bit to keep the ship afloat

Where do you fit in?

[rogerhb]

What about pirate, buckaneer and privateer, me hearties?

[nero]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat about pirate, buckaneer and privateer, me hearties?

[TheTurtle]

I see plenty of folks herein who fit into categories 5 and 6.
Maybe I don't understand the definitions.

[MicroHydro]

The creepy thing about the last quarter century in the west is the lack of any mutineers. Perhaps Jerry Brown in 1976 qualified as a semi-serious wannabe mutineer, I cannot think of any others since then. It has been all global corporatists, either neoliberal flavour or neocon flavour, for a generation. Attack abortion, wink at illegal immigration, full speed ahead into overshoot! No matter how mad Bush-Queeg and Cheney-Bligh and their willing enabler democrat deckhands become, there is no sustainable powerdown Fletcher Christian in sight. The leaderless passengers in steerage are grumbling, but for them the brig, the keelhaul, or the plank awaits.

Abandon ship!

[Ludi]

Can't a lifeboat builder also be a mutineer?

I definitely think we all need to mutineer, been saying it all along (oh yes and getting called names for it all along too!)

[Laurasia]

I'm TRYING to build a lifeboat, and I have the basic plans but I don't know beans about shipbuilding. In the stormy Peak Oil waters, my poor little effort will probably founder. Maybe I should just scuttle those plans and get a job as a deckhand on somebody else's (seaworthy) lifeboat.

Regards,

L.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nero', 'W')hat I don't see on the forum are:

4. The Mutineer who feels he must grab control of the ship to steer itt clear of the storm

[smallpoxgirl]

Well...I'm working on my life vest, but mostly I'm just excited the ship is finally sinking.

[seldom_seen]

I've just been pacing the deck back and forth in my survival suit.