tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post5838080750427002227..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: Forever Young: The key to the Tea Party movementDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-89677659185462195992010-05-10T21:36:52.705+02:002010-05-10T21:36:52.705+02:0095% rubes, 5% swine. You are absolutely correct, a...95% rubes, 5% swine. You are absolutely correct, and I blame Reagan, of course, for the 30 year orgasm of greed that appears to have been staged to determine whose descendants shall live in those gated communities, Calcutta style.oldfatherwilliamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05772846617790858976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-10053408462315362232010-05-10T18:30:11.464+02:002010-05-10T18:30:11.464+02:00David,
I have to reluctantly say that you are corr...David,<br />I have to reluctantly say that you are correct: the future system of politics, economic systems, and government <i>will</i> need to be tightly interwoven and governed (i.e., controlled), or there will simply not be the capacity to deal with the problems caused by a huge and growing human population that is also eating through its seed corn.<br /><br />I do not believe the requisite control will be achieved, for many reasons. I do not believe that the energy resources (oil) needed to exert such control will exist. We are already on the downslope of Peak Oil. Our economic system cannot survive the inevitable and long-term decline in GDP, and therefore our national political systems will not survive in their current forms, let alone aspire to global control.<br /><br />Sure, the nation-states may keep the current names, but the future lies in devolution and local control. I'm sure you are familiar with the economist E.F. Schumacher and the idea of subsidiarity: things are best done by the smallest unit of government that can do it.<br /><br />So, globalism is dying and must die. The needed iron control will not happen. Regions and peoples who embrace humane economic and environmental policies stand a chance of living some kind of civilized life. The rest WILL suffer a tremendous and once-in-a-species level die-off caused by war, disease, environmental devastation, and famine.<br /><br />It has begun.<br /><br />There is no chance of saving the whole, but those localized groups of humans who choose the path of humanistic living in synergy with nature will live lives that on the surface are poor (to our benighted materialistic view), but are actually far more satisfying from a holistic, psychological perspective. <br />That is, these lucky few will be poor and happy.<br />A quote from William James (who was quoting an old joke): <br />Q: Is life worth living?<br />A: It depends on the liver.Jacob Gitteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10559764359800682222noreply@blogger.com