From: "David James" <shddemon-AT-concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Food and gasoline
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 03:53:41 -0700



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From: "danceswithcarp" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
To: <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:44 AM


> I can teach you, but I can't teach the wirld because the wirld is based on
> a hydro-carbon agriculture.   With the exception of the SE Asian rice
> industries, most of the wirld is fed by gasoline or diesel fuel.   The
> commonly accepted formula for the US is that each calorie of food requires
> an investement of ten calories of oil-product.  I have never, ever, seen
> any realistic approach to converting to any other base for agriculture
that
> doesn't require a massive die-off of people.

Well, shit, looks as if we've "built our house upon the sand," so to speak.
And it will collapse, IMHO, if for no other reason than everyone becoming
seriously depressed about the whole affair of things; suicidal from years
and decades
of constant ever-increasing dehumanization.

 In Davos, Switzerland last year (or early this year, I forgot)
a meeting was held where corporate big-wigs were briefed on "depression, the
cancer of the 21st century," and I'm assuming, how to do "mental-health"
interventions
to keep the employees shiny and fresh.

They've even come up with a new technology that detects a change
in the pitch of voice when people become suicidal.  I suppose this
was easier than actually becoming empathetic. "Empathy? What's
that? How much does it cost?"
(see alt.suicide.holiday archives -- "be careful what you say" -- I'm too
lazy to be more specific)

Maybe they'll just dump Prozac in the water supply when people
start to get antsy..

Fuck. The next 100 years are going to be VERY interesting.
All thanks to idiots who worship paper.

Cheers.

               Dave

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
        -- Krishnamurti

The salvation of the world lies with the maladjusted.
        -- Martin Luther King, Jr