Comments on: Seussian Paradigm Shift

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By: Soi Disant

Soi Disant — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:13:28 +0000

I fear most people—not the few people here, but the people most resoundingly not here—will simply “refuse delivery of bad news” instead of admitting our troubles.

Even ‘at the top’ the effort seems to be focused upon restoring the national economy to something like it was just a small handful of years ago.

The closest thing to admitting the mess _we_are_now_in_ on the part of the present administration of ‘Change’ (and yes, I voted for him, and would again), is that we need to do something about looming energy depletion and global warming, as though these aren’t happening _right_now_, or as though we aren’t in the first years of a profound set of changes familiar to readers of this and similar blogs.

Denial is still alive and well throughout America, and where the point of crisis is felt, it continues to fix its gaze on the hopeful prospect of sudden and short-term resolution.

Yes, though I read your postings with interest, my view remains much less optimistic. I’m not one of the dieoff.com mavens, perhaps, but I don’t think we are all going to make it over the bumps in the road ahead intact, not by a long shot, particularly.

My view won’t tend to change until I see more evidence of the American people waking up to what is happening.

As to a return to the local, relocalization, that has its shadow side, too, particularly if it happens in the context of large numbers of desperate and panicked people looking for any help they can find. A region ruthlessly ruled by a local warlord with feudalistic pretensions, or a local crime ring is a form of relocalization. There are many others forms of relocalization we would not prefer to live with (or under) also likely to emerge.

One consideration in all of this, and the individual planning that goes with it, is how many people one wants around where one lives. Some, yes, for we are social beings, but hundreds of thousand? Millions? I’m not so sure.

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Zone5 » Come with Me to Solla Sollew — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:35:44 +0000

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By: RC

RC — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:01:01 +0000

As the oldest of seven siblings born from 1952 to 1964 I very much am under the Seuss spell. More than any other concept for my family, there was something about Oobleck that appealed to us. Often, strange tiny green matter would appear in the backyard sandbox. For us, Oobleck was real, in fact, all of Seuss was real, it wasn’t a story or an allegory or a collection of metaphors. The art was in the rhymes and wordplay and the rhythms and tones of the sing song pressed down into print, but we took the actual events as Bible. Later
in life my contemporaries discovered Magical
Realism, supposedly launched by Mario de Andrade, writer of Macunaima, which is very much like a Seuss epic, but for adults, due to some of the erotic content.
Perhaps Mario got the ball rolling {personally, I would argue that most holy scriptures in the world are magical realism} but Seuss was also a practitioner.

By: LittleMissIndependent

LittleMissIndependent — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:38:15 +0000

I’m in my forties, indoctrinated in the ’70′s by Dr Seuss and the Lorax as a child. Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean. Somewhere between chasing brown barbaloots, eating green eggs and ham, and being a fish out of water, I struggled through the rampant consumerism of my parents, as they reacted to their frugal wartime upbringing by spending up, biggering and biggering, and filling up landfill and damn the consequences just because they could. In my lifetime they and their generation played out first the Lorax then Joni Mitchell perfectly.. took all the trees, put ‘em in a tree museum… paved paradise, put up a parking lot. I grew up thinking the Lorax foretold a world that we needed to avoid at all costs; that someday all that would be left ‘neath the bad smelling-sky would be a big empty factory…the Lorax…and I…Today I wonder if we’ve reached the point where the last of the truffala seeds just won’t grow, no matter how much we care for them? Don’t it always seem to go. That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone. There were other prophets in the 70’s…..I’ve seen the lights go out ….I saw the Empire State laid low…They turned our power down, and drove us underground…I saw the ruins at my feet, You know we almost didn’t notice it- We’d see it all the time on Forty-Second Street. They burned the churches up in Harlem- Like in that Spanish Civil War- The flames were everywhere, But no one really cared- It always burned up there before… I’ve seen the rats lie down on Broadway- I watched the mighty skyline fall. But that was so many years ago…There are not many who remember- They say a handful still survive…To tell the world about… The way the lights went out, And keep the memory alive….

By: WNC Observer

WNC Observer — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:48:07 +0000

Sharon, I’ve been saying that the 21st century is going to be one long exercise in giving up things. Giving up on the idea of growth, and all of the hopes and dreams that go with it, is going to be a VERY big thing to give up – maybe the biggest. We are seeing right now how hard people both high and low are fighting against giving it up. This isn’t just “denial”, this is full-scale temper-tantrum mode, this is the gambler-addict on a losing streak, continuing to double down and about to go all in as a last gasp effort. What other terms do you use to describe a society that is throwing unimaginable trillions of dollars it doesn’t have at problems it doesn’t understand, with no good reason to believe that any of this will ever actually work?

However, we already know how the plot line must go. Each and every one of us, probably one-by-one, must go through that painful moment when we must give up the dreams, let go of the hopes, and accept reality. Some of us have already been there and done that. Now, we must watch with that complex mix of amazement, amusement, and empathy as we see everyone around us going through the same thing. It will be quite a show to watch, and we all have front row seats.

By: Apple Jack Creek

Apple Jack Creek — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:30:27 +0000

I am going to go say a prayer over the seedlings I just planted, and make sure they have enough water and sunlight.

My ‘practice gardening’ may turn into ‘gardening when it counts’ sooner than I had thought.

Ah well, that’s why we purposely turned our little ‘acreage’ into a ‘working farm’. A very small farm, and not working very well yet, but … we’re trying to bloom where we are planted. And to encourage every little seedling to do the same!

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:39:03 +0000

It is very scary. Our experts are telling us that we are in for a mild, not so mild recession that will be over by Christmas. Yet all I see is companies bunkering down for the long term. With the way we talk about trillions of dollars and trillions more, how long before there are more dollars than grains of sand?

Ghawar is almost watered out, they use multi lateral, multi nipple wells to stay above the water, inject hydrochloric acid to break down the limestone to pump more water in, surficants to speed flow. 5% of the worlds oil supply, but 50% of oil liquidity because most oil is tied up in long term contracts. What was dismissed as sludge is now a valuable resource.

The more I learn about climate change the scarier it gets. We are using linear modeling when we know it is a non linear world. We know there are tipping points, we just don’t know where. Conclusion, it will be worse than predicted, maybe a lot worse.

We need a new paradigm. Continuous exponential growth is unsustainable. We are past the point where transition will be easy, I hope we are not past the point where transition will be possible.

For all that we are facing a perfect storm of events, perhaps all the problems have the same solution.