Post-Apocalypse Peak Oil Fetishists
by Al
I’ve posted before about my opinion of the people that make their belief in Peak Oil or the eventual collapse of civilization into a fetish. I had a long basically flaming exchange with some people in comments on the Anthropik.com blog this evening because certain people there seem to be gleefully anticipating and hoping for the ending of civilization. This was further elaborated in viewing selfishness as a virtue and that people only have any responsbility at all to their own family.
When did people lose any sense of ethics or the basis of civilization? I have serious problems with aspects of our culture but I believe in the value of communities, order, and a developed sense of ethics towards all humans. I find it appalling that people, especially of my own culture, don’t have these values at all. One thinks that if there were not police and prisons in place, that there might be no restraint on behavior. They even admitted that there would be nothing to stop the killing of others or even violence and rape in their view of ethics.
It’s just a bit sad.
Comments
Regardless of the immanence of civ’s demise, there is still every reason to be kind and compassionate with others (except those who do nothing to be worthy thereof – the scadalously rich who will be insulated for a while when the crunch comes – anyone remember “Soylent Green?); but there remains the idea of common decency to those who are victims too often worse off than we are…. Then, the best advice I’ve heard is: “Find a community,” Michael Tobias’ Eco-communities is a good place to begin.
ananda,
Ryokan