Jay Hanson wrote:
[snip]
> Seen in this way, Capitalism is "genetic" and will continue until it can no
> longer "deliver the goods". (The end of Capitalism could be signaled by the
> "peak" in oil -- about seven years from now.) Capitalism simply can't
> operate in reverse, it must disintegrate.
"Capitalism" has shown remarkable wile so far (Keynes and FDR
pulled a few rabbits out of hats, e.g....). Maybe
it yet has some more "surprises" in store for us. Oil, of
course, has to "peak" *sometime* (at least unless nuclear
transmutation of elements or some other DuPont [et al.]
technology really gets going...) -- either ten
years ago or ten years from now or ten years from ten
years after then....
>
> The "New World Order" will probably be a Feudal society. Powerful men --
> the new lords -- will assemble their own bands of warriors, giving them
> benefices (pick of the slave girls) in return for their services. So if
> any of you youngsters are wondering what skills will be needed in the 21st
> century, study killing.
>
> Jay -- www.dieoff.org
I would call attention to Orson Welles' movie: "The Shape of Things
to Come" (ca. 1939?). It addresses precisely such a
breakdown-of-civilization scenario, and how scientists
just might straighten it out. On the other hand, we already have
Borix Yeltsin, and the Great Capitalist Former Soviet Union
Breakdown Product States, so maybe "that someday is today",
at least at [The Kremlin] (For the life of me, I can't
understand why the murder of the Romanoffs was so much worse
than, e.g., the murder of Trotsky, except that Yeltsin would
rather live like and *be* a Czar [Tzar? Tsar?] than a revolutinary,
whereas maybe he *should* be a Zek).
*I* still think the argument about population is
not whether an infinite proliferation of human
bodies is biologically sustainable, but whether that's
the kind of world that we the currently living
want to live in and to leave to those who follow
us (however many or few we may feel is the
optimum number). I'd prefer LaTache to
Soylent Green(sp?).
\brad mccormick
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