Life is electric From a looter perspective, this is the bes...

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  "content": "Life is electric  From a looter perspective, this is the best time in history.  We are coming down after a wonderful drink of cheap energy and feedstocks. But time is misleading. The last 150 years are a blip on the timeline. The magic of oil distorted time like we were four levels down in Inception. We thought we came up with the idea, but oil was both the source and the time distortion tech of dreams within dreams, divorced from reality in our slumber. Make no mistake, though, life is electric. The web of life will go on with or without us. It is so beautiful it cannot be described by words, and anything meaningful to say about it would require the discipline of Laura Riding Jackson, but still... nobody would understand. You have to be in/of/for/with the web of life. It is.\n \nThe boomers could have taken a different course. Their parents knew what was going on and told them.  All of these folks tried to tell boomers:\n\nhttps://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3227654/PSAC-1965-Restoring-the-Quality-of-Our-Environment.pdf\n\nhttp://designsciencelab.com/resources/OperatingManual_BF.pdf\n\nhttps://donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Leverage_Points.pdf\n\nhttps://villonfilms.ca/main/transcripts-dialectics-gregory-bateson-17-7-67.pdf\n\nI'm a boomer myself. I did not listen. I did try more than most, though. I did my cabin in the woods/Walden/My Side of the Mountain thing and explored many subcultures that I thought would provide a better view. Mostly, though, the view was fleeting when I received it. I didn't understand enough for it to take.  Now... my parents were just on the other side of boomer. My dad liked small block chevy engines and lots of loot.  My grandfather had toilet paper printed like currency. I asked him about it, and he told me about gold and fiat, but I had no idea why that mattered at the time. I didn't disbelieve... I just couldn't understand.  I'm also aware of some boomers that took up the torch.   \n\nHere are a couple:\n\nhttps://escholarship.org/content/qt9js5291m/qt9js5291m.pdf\n\nhttps://credoeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/credo.pdf\n\nThese folks are more recent. I'm not sure if they are X or Z:\n\nhttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350400528\n\nhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1HSTzZpqKSqSexxiFf5iA0BDWcdsbavCN/view\n\nI could go on, but I figure the only way this will be understood is in a different culture, refactored after collapse events. There will *never* be a shortage of self-righteous looters that believe in their looting and form a justifying religion around it.  That behavior goes back thousands of years, back to the original mythologies of our civilizations, which go back roughly to the first written word as origin. And this is just a blip as well, just one level up in inception, still skewed.\n\nFinally, I have to say that I am in total glee about what I got to see in my lifetime, what I got to experience, what I got to build and participate in. I built nationwide networks with CI/CD tools I brewed up decades before that was a thing. I thought computers and data were a force for the good. I realized later they were many things, but mostly a way to handle scaling and complexity, but this also came with extreme negative externalities.  My present work might possibly be useful to future cultures. I doubt it, but there is a chance of it, and that is enough. I try and minimize the negative externalities, and am aware of where those might be. I am an optimist at heart, really, and in love with the web of life and humans in general. Fuck I've had a great life.  \n\nThe boring religious droning about our brilliant progress, but lacking the attention span or sophistication to dig deeper and pull at the threads that have always been there, preferring to blame this or that generation, but never ourselves for our predicament, though, is something I have a hard time turning away from. I should, though. I should turn away from that. It is nothing new. Those looters have always been here. They have been here for thousands of years. It is very human. I think we are wired this way. I do think we can overcome this. I am an optimist after all. This is something I'm working on.",
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