There's No Tomorrow

[Book]

http://youtu.be/VOMWzjrRiBg

There's No Tomorrow


2300 WHAT IS.................IS.

[Book]

One viewer's comment about this cartoon:

My point was that the more we learned about the world, the worse it was going to be for us because we would never be able to escape that knowledge. Look at a shiny new gift and you see the starving kids who made it in Taiwan. Thrill at the latest action adventure flick and you come away with a sour aftertaste of militarism, sexism, and racism. Buy a bag of cookies and you buy a bag of pesticides, GMOS, and corn syrup. Nothing can escape your critical eye, including yourself.

The constant whittling away of all illusions, or at least the attempt to do so, changes a person incrementally, so slowly you don't notice but suddenly you are outside of it all. Your critical eye has reached critical mass: now you see all things inside out and upside down that are supposedly right side right.

"Through the veil!" as one old history professor used to say. You no longer get elated at the latest iPhone commercials with your friends or marvel at the magic that is Disney or worship the Kennedy brothers in a secret crypt under the stairs. People begin to suspect something is wrong with you, you openly mock the SuperDuperBowl, you make cracks about Baby Jesus helping you to find your car keys, you refuse to Buy Now!at your local Toyota Deal-Athon dealer. Curmudgeon, Crackpot, Grumpy, the accolades pile up at your feet....

This came back to me as I watched the crowds watching the enormous digital monitors and billboards in the Square. The pain of not being able to slip into the biggest lie of all, the lie that everyone else around you has allowed to flow into and through themselves, that this is somehow an ok situation, that this waste and constant jabber of lies and hucksterism, this smear of harsh light and consumption, body counts and scenic views with advertising, disposable people and trash mountains represents some kind of healthy beating heart of something. I felt a twinge of that old pain, the alienation, the sense of not being plugged into the coolest Kool-Aid around. But then I said "Who fucking cares?" These people are lost, not their fault, they aren't all idiots but rather lost in an illusion, a maze of lies and pictures and warped mirrors. They can't see the man behind the curtain and they sure as fuck cannot see that the machine he is operating is nearing it's breaking point.

But when I watched that damned cartoon tonight it hit again. It's good to know these things because I like to know whats up, I'm a bad news first kind of guy. It's just hard to be the bearer of such knowledge, in a sea of indifference and fantasy. Gaze into the abyss and the abyss gazes into you, right?

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2012/02/theres-no-tomorrow.html

[Horn]

http://www.energyinsights.net/cgi-script/csArticles/uploads/85/Oil%20Production%20-%20Global%20-%20since%201965%20and%20forecast%20to%202015.gif

Do not fear, Book.

Oil cartels are working on a new soylent green product to save the future.

[Golden]

No wonder people are birthing miracles like there's no tomorrow! Hope is not a strategy.

And the red man was called a savage. Who are the savages now?

[Book]

Hope is not a strategy.



That is also my conclusion after watching this cartoon.

:o

[undgrd]

I think everyone who can do anything about it plans on being dead before anything needs to be done about it.

[Book]

I dunno. Thoughtful people with children have an extra burden to carry accepting the reality and truth exposed by this cartoon.

[mamboni]

The root of the problem is exponential population growth - it is unsustainable. One can squabble over how much population is too much. But no one can argue that population growth at some point will excede the planet's carrying capacity - unless it is controlled, passively or actively. Government socialist policies are fueling population growth, subsidizing the least able and fit to have children, while responsible couples don't even procreate anymore. Rest assured that the problem will rectify itself according to the law of supply and demand. Whether by war, mass disease and starvation or government-mandated contraception, population growth will cease and plateau, probably within 20-30 years.

As an aside, on a personal note, I've felt that things had been pretty nice around here in Joe King's absence.;D

[hoarder]

The root of the problem is exponential population growth - it is unsustainable.It gets really interesting when you examine which population is growing and who is getting blamed.
White man is blamed for the result of population growth, even in the cartoon we just watched. You didn't see a third-worlder burping from over-consumption did you?

When I was born, Whites were 1/3 of the world's population, now they are less than 10%.

So what has really happened is that the non-White population has boomed because they were the beneficiaries of White man's inventions.

One has to wonder why no one in the evironmental sector has ever questioned the wisdom of giving our technology to third world countries and sending "aid" of all sorts including "Peace Corps" and "humanitarian aid" etc so that they can grow populations beyond what they could sustain on their own.

[Neuro]

I didn't see the entire cartoon (slow downloading speeds), but it seems like lower grade finds of oil (such as the tar sands of Canada and the Bakken fields were not included in the graphs, but these finds are huge, albeit more expensive to extract, further it is not too difficult to make petroleum products out of coal!

[mamboni]

It gets really interesting when you examine which population is growing and who is getting blamed.
White man is blamed for the result of population growth, even in the cartoon we just watched. You didn't see a third-worlder burping from over-consumption did you?

When I was born, Whites were 1/3 of the world's population, now they are less than 10%.

So what has really happened is that the non-White population has boomed because they were the beneficiaries of White man's inventions.

One has to wonder why no one in the evironmental sector has ever questioned the wisdom of giving our technology to third world countries and sending "aid" of all sorts including "Peace Corps" and "humanitarian aid" etc so that they can grow populations beyond what they could sustain on their own.

Exactly correct: Socialist altrusim gone international. The liberals love to feed the weeds while the tomatoes wither and die. To paraphrase a certain old Cuban: "Many weeds will die."

[Tumbleweed]

The Emperor has no clothes....but there's damn few who will speak up and say so. It's all a lie what they present to us. SOB's