My way to freedomain radio via disaster, drugs, and depression The 3D's.

[MaxM]

First of all let me say in this introduction that this will not discuss my childhood like many other threads that I have read. The idea of a thread where you discuss your childhood and what you are like as an adult interests me so I will make one if there is not one already.

Let me first put out a warning. This story is sad. You were warned.

The 3D's and this aint a movie you want to see.

Me 22 and no cares in the world. Studying at uni. . . again this time philosophy and something else *psychology. After realising why I quit the first time I was wondering why I signed up for this shit again. Sounds good on paper sucks in reality. If your interested in New Zealand University well it's endless hoop jumping! for what a piece of paper and 20K debt. The philosophy was insulting to people who can read. Does god exist, can computers think, what a waste of time aside from critical thinking which was helpful. I'v found self education works best.

Mid year break and I'm online bored I like to watch documentaries so click on one. I have a love of disaster movies, I don;t know why. So I watched in horror, a movie called, 'Collapse', it explained primarily about peak oil. [if you have not researched this subject I suggest you do as it will effect your life].

After learning the hard way never to trust anyone and do research yourself(#Born surrounded by psychopaths), moreso if the information will change you. So basically the catch is fossile fules are NOT infinite and the limited of production are being reached. Experts say well were definatly in trouble in 20 years and well probably hit depression (economy in 2012-2015) this is because fossile fuel is a large part of our lives, 'as in grow a fucking garden you gonna get hungry', so without it we have to change the way we live. After watching all the documentaries and listening to people speak about it and reviewing the data. . .

My life went from what shoud I do now? :-) to what the fuck do I do now? Depression and drugs. The reality is not many people know about these facts or avoid them, which makes perfect sense because it is just a big smash in the face of your awesome reality the younger the worse it is. So there is no one to talk to about these subjects in person. The thought of telling my close friends is unfathomable. Unfortunatly realitie's consiquences cannot be hidden from. A funny thing happens to adults who stare blank at problems and panic. Which is they forget what they've learned. We've all learnt how to deal with problems, even huge, big overwhelming ones, and that is research and study the problem to pass it.

And that is how I found freedradio which introduced me to more problems . . . great almost endless. que drugs I searched America collapse and Stephan's video the collapse of America. Badabing badaboom here I am!

[Jeremi]

Hi Max,

 

Thanks for sharing. Not nearly as sad as I expected but still interesting nonetheless. I wouldn't worrry too much about peak oil, especially in your country. The major global economies of the west are going to have economic depressions long before we ever reach any type of peak oil. 

[Chew]

Hi Max,

There is an counter argument that probably wasnt mentioned in the documentary that could explain why there is no problem at all. I say 'could' because I am by no means an expert on this and you should look into it yourself if you want more solid answers.

That counter argument involves the principles of supply and demand. First of all, oil is not the only source of energy available. It is just the most cost effective source of energy at the moment. As oil becomes more scarce the price goes up. When this price gets so high  some other source of energy will begin to take its place naturally as businesses need to be as cost effective as possible. Now this doesnt mean that it wont get real ugly becuase prices of everthing could go through the roof too but I dont think its total doomsday.

Take cargo shipping for example. Huge container ships burn oil in their engines right now but aircraft carriers and submarines use nuclear. My guess is that cargo ships will eventually all switch to nuclear as the price of it comes down and the price of oil goes up. Maybe they'll run on a combination. The free market is a problem solving mechanism.

Having said all that with Governments distorting everything to do with the free market who knows what's going to happen.

David

[MaxM]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

 

Im now going to give an indepth report on what I have found out in nearly one year of learning this subject. I encourage you to not believe what I say believe in the facts and data which are available on the net. Just google an information point from here and look for data not that corrisponds to what I have said, but information that should corrispond to facts i have pointed out.

 

Peak oil information goes far and deep but still surprisingly little compared to the effect it will have on everyones lives.

Supply and demand work fine with adaquate alternatives. However there is no alternative to oil. There is alternatives to energy but not oil. Oil's energy density, ease of transport, and existing inverstructure, and diversity have no alternatives. Also not only do alternatives need 50 years of inferstructure to implement but massive investment and capital is required and in this day and age it's a bit late and were all a bit poor unless your Singapor, China, Russia, and suadi arabia, whom are all already on that road.

 

The reason were all poor is also because of peak oil. Yes it's that important. Oil is the life blood of an economy. As economy grows, so must oil consumption and when oil becomes expensive specifically over $100 a barrel it sends economys into recession and contracts an economy. If you look up the facts (which your should, and don't believe me read the data) every recession has happened when an oil shock or price jump has occured. And yes I know correlation is not always causation but in this case it is the data supports it. With Saudi Arabia being on the cusp of revoluion who knows what'll happen to oil as Quatar is the largest known oil reserve on the planet and literaly every super power wants it desperately. All money is basically a representation of resources so it helps to think of money as oil especially the dollar which is only backed by oil. oil will never run out just get really expensive and eventurally when it takes more oil (money, energy, investment ect) to get oil as in oil extracted, then it's no longer economically viable to produce. This is a hard scientifict fact ~exponential growth cannot go on forever~ the law of entrophy. If fact growth is bad after a point nothing can grow forever. youtube

Dr Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy.

for a great easy lesson on this.

 

No one in the main stream are willing to admit were gonna have to change our culture and way of life. Prices of oil quadrupled in 10 years. in 20-40 years only the super rich are going to be able to fly in a plane were are in depletion rates of 8% per year globally. This is faster than anyone anticipated. The scarier fact is that oil is not only the lifeblood of economies but populations too. As oil consumtion increased world population has too and it's my personal opinion that globaly more people will die in the next 200 year that ever before or ever again because of the lack of energy to keep as all alive. Maybe we'll all imbrace food forests and permaculture as it only takes 5-10 years to set up and have a limitless supply of food providing the environment can support it but will we be in time. No one knows.

 

After researching this for nearly a year i have learned that good things to do is own your home no mortgage, have a garden, farm animals, and basically get as off grid as much as possible while creating redundencies, own precious metals as savings. Also it's better to be a producer than in the service section and having a diverse skill list is vastly more usefull than a specialised one. I recommed learning these skills also they're very interesting to.

Tree trainig, animal husbandry, permaculture, fishing, repair work, butchery, cooking. These are a few skills that will help. Im fucked because im 23 with no resources to my name hoping to get experience in these areas and marry into a permaculture family hahah. Good Luck to you all and I hope you take this information and inquire into peak oil as it will effect your life dramatically directly and indirectly.

 

p.s inquire with me if you want clarification on a premis or something and i'll help.

 

Hey is us philosophers handle the crisees? better than the matrix users than were gonna have a great chance to 'preach the truth with scientific validity'. aka Philosophy.

 

Doesn't that sound sexy.

 

Peace~