Is Peak Oil Pessimism a Generation of Men Coming to Realise How Useless They Are

In this post I want to discuss an evolving theory I have which may illuminate some and enrage others. I have come to think that part of the reason behind the

Over the last few weeks I have been doing oral history interviews with older people in and around Totnes of their memories of the 30s, 40s and 50s. They remember working with horses on the farms, raising children with gas lamps, candles, home grown vegetables and home made clothes. This is less than 2 generations ago. What emerges is an innate sense, in the generation that made it through World War Two, of what constitutes enough, of an instinctive sense of self-reliance and an almost universal ability to turn one