[oswald622]

And I don't just mean a little attention from newspaper or magazine articles...

I've been noticing that it's far easier than normal to bring up previously taboo topics like the disintegration of civilization as we know it. To many people, it seems, it's not that remote of a possibility. This change in the public psyche really hit home for me when I heard an advertisement on the radio - on a classic rock station, in the middle of the day - for a cache of seeds in case the food distribution network were to break down. I was just sitting there, thinking - WTF? Really? The market for this is big enough to justify radio ads now?

Anyone else notice any changes of this sort?

[mos6507]

A little tip for ya. They're worried about the depression. They aren't becoming peakers.

[Schmuto]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A') little tip for ya. They're worried about the depression. They aren't becoming peakers.

[outcast]

Doomers such a long history of being way wrong, this will all blow over. Short term "credibility" caused by total panic, possibly, but long term there will never be any real credibility.

[Sixstrings]

I think what's going on is a lot more sheeple read the internetz than what you may have assumed. So ya, no shock, folks are hearing about PO.

[ForlornHope]

schmuto, your avatar is a bit disturbing. You're looking a little thin...for an anti zionist that is...you really should get more to eat.
Forlorn Hope

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Do you still believe that the worldwide economic collapse is only a consequence of over-extended US consumers?

[TreebeardsUncle]

People are panicky about stocks and real estate.
This will pass within 18 months.
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[Pops]

I'm not sure people are actually becoming Doomsters just yet but I think there is little more realization that "bad things happen to good people" going on in the mainstream.

The economy is part, but 9/11 is part, Iraq/Afgan-Pakistan, Katrina, GW, and Pontiac is history For-Gawd-Sakes!

Look how quick the MSM picked up on the swine flu.

And Andy Rooney said:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t may be wrong to suggest impending doom, but if doom isn't impending, it's out there somewhere....
If running out of oil doesn't scare you, maybe an iceberg the size of Connecticut floating away from Antarctica and hitting the United States will get your attention.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schmuto', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A') little tip for ya. They're worried about the depression. They aren't becoming peakers.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'T')his and others,Let's try to keep the discussion on arguments and not the person. If you are convinced that "doomerism" is gaining a wider audience or that more people are becoming "peakers" lets please making an argument in that respect.
If you want to call people names, please go to the Hall of Flames.

[Chuckmak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schmuto', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A') little tip for ya. They're worried about the depression. They aren't becoming peakers.

[sittinguy]

I agree, I can actully say the D word, and not get that funny look as much. If and when TSHTF, all of us prepared doomers will go from looking like nutters to prophets in one day. Freinds and family will be calling us in a panic asking us what to do. Unfortunatly it will be too late. We will be the only ones without itchy bunghole.

[pup55]

I have to say that when the lead story on Meet the Press is the same as the lead story on PO.com, you have to wonder where we are headed.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A') little tip for ya. They're worried about the depression. They aren't becoming peakers.

[mos6507]

What we're going to see is this overlap between depression preppers and peak oil preppers and it's tempting to see it all as one big happy family but it's not. There is a big difference in the mental outlook and the level of preps of someone thinking they just have to hunker down for a few years and someone who thinks a huge percentage of the global population is going to die off.

[mos6507]

pstarr, people by and large just aren't too bright. They couldn't care less about environmental issues as long as the big box stores are fully stocked. Now, if they lose their jobs, then it's time to rush washington with assault rifles, but the environment, overpopulation, fossil fuel depletion? Forget about it.