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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Roman Berry
Published Letters: 198 Editor's Choice: 10
Let's get this out of thee way first: It's called "the crash course" not because it's doom and gloom "we're all gonna crash and die" stuff, but because the entirety of the course represent a 3 day seminar boiled down to a 3 hour online presentation presented in easily digestible 5 to 20 minutes chunks. A crash course. Get it?
The segment on peak oil runs around 17 minutes and the full text accompanies the video at the link:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-17a-peak-oil (or click my sig.)
The segments of the crash course are entertaining and informative, not dry and boring. And the presenter makes clear during the rest of the course that he is in fact optimistic we can overcome the obstacles that we face in terms of the economy, the environment and energy if we deal with reality and get busy now.
Proof that it's not doom and gloom? Here's a direct quote from chapter 18: "The only way these challenges can become insurmountable is if we let them, by ignoring them for too long."
So...take the crash course. Start with peak oil. But be sure to go back and start from the beginning. It's good stuff!
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
"(T)aking the potentiality of that danger as an excuse for the state to act to repress these organizations and individuals comes into direct conflict with the First Amendment's guarantee that people are allowed to think what they like and that like-minded people are free to assemble and to share their ideas with others.
I just spent the better part of the last eight years listening to the Bush admin and their supporters (and unfortunately now the Obama admin and many of its supporters) telling me that we had to have things like indefinite preventive detention where we lock away people who have done nothing wrong without affording them the right to be charged or to have a trial where they might confront their accusers precisely because of the potential danger of what they might do based upon what they think, who they assemble with and the ideas that they share. Hell, we often don't even afford them the living hell of being detained forever. Sometimes we just fire up a fighter or bomber or Predator UAV and murd...er...kill in col...er...take 'em out.
What's the difference between the alleged bad guys that it's OK to lock away or even kill based on the potential for what they might do and/or who they associate with and the bad guys right here in the US that happen to be (usually) white and Christian? Oh yeah...the alleged bad guys that it's OK to lock up and kill are usually brown and Muslim.
(A)nyone is actively engaged in a conspiracy to violate the laws of this country and to do violence against its citizens, the conservative response is to arrest the conspirators, charge them, give them a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers and, if they're convicted, to jail them for a very long time.
Really? Since when? Is that why conservatives are standing up for the Constitution and the rule of law by loudly and vigorously demanding that the people we have locked away at Guantanamo Bay be brought into the justice system, charged and given a fair trial where they can confront the evidence against them?
Know what you are, Wingnut? I mean other than a Wingnut. You're a fucking hypocrite. A small minded "some animals are more equal than others" Orwellian hypocrite. It's because of you and people like you that we now have a "liberal" president who is cementing the madness of the Bush admin on things like preventive detention, state secrets, sovereign immunity and so-called preventive war.
You and those like you have taken the Constitution of this nation, wadded it up and used it to wipe the sh*t from your ass.
Fuck. You.
You folks can save a lot of typing by simply posting "Don't confuse me with the facts" the next time the subject of peal oil comes up.
I apologize for being, well, condescending, but those letters are all wet from living in De Nile. You're both apparently entirely unaware of the scope of the problem/issue, engaged in what amounts to magical thinking and/or wishing for some sort of deus ex machina resolution...which is the same thing as magical thinking which makes me redundant. Whatever.
Please follow the link to the Crash Course segment on peak oil:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-17a-peak-oil (or click my sig.)
Hopefully that will inspire you to start from the beginning of the crash course:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/
I know that being condescending is not the best way to encourage people to learn, and I am sorry, but I am long since out of patience with "magical thinking" and (for lack of a better term) aggressive ignorance and stupidity.
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