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The Doomer’s Curse
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The Doomer confuses his personal collapse with the “inevitable” collapse of society. (“Inevitable” is the keystone of the Doomer vocabulary and, as such, should be avoided whenever possible.) He suffers from a severe case of tunnel vision. Like a horse with blinders on, he can only see what’s immediately in front of him. Anything indicating that other people’s experience contradicts his world-view is dismissed as false or a lie propagated by the corrupt elite. He doesn’t want his dogma tested, because then it might be refuted, and the emotional consequences of that would be too much to bear. He would have to accept that he has failed due to his lack of merit and not by his refusal to make some moral compromise.
As I mentioned before, the Doomer I refer to is not a personality type. He is an aspect of my personality and, it seems, the personalities of many people. (How else do you explain the enduring popularity of apocalyptic cults, auto racing or Goth music?) I’m attempting self-analysis in the hope that it will resonate with others. Therefore, when I call the Doomer a loser willing to blame anyone but himself, I’m talking about myself. All the characteristics I enumerated are ones that I’ve personified many times in the five years since I learned about Peak Oil and even before then. My hope is that being honest about my Doomerism will help me overcome these tendencies and help others recognize the same tendencies in themselves.
One Comment on "The Doomer’s Curse"
RICHARD RALPH ROEHL on Sun, 27th Jun 2010 11:54 am
Humankind (a.k.a.: ewe-man-unkind) is a very clever and inventive ‘especies’. They have harnessed fire… and have invented i-pods, computers… and cancer cell phones. 737 jets and Bentley automobiles. Caviar and $cotch. Yesss… they are clever and creative.
Unfortunately the baboony humans, clever as they are, lack wisdom and prescience, especially in the long term. Individual eeego, infected with fear and selfishness born from antediluvion trauma, cannot see much beyond the lifetime of the vessel it inhabits. Thus… over the long term… the human ‘especies’ is doomed to suffer a major extinction event because… WHERE THERE IS NO INSIGHT, THE PEOPLE PERISH.
Humans, Amerikans in particular, live on the Titanic… as it $inks off the coast of Easter Island