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Dr. Gulliver explains why America has become so fearful of the future

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 7 Comments / 23 October 2008 26 December 2017

Summary: Why has American’s mental processing become so dysfunctional? As described by John Boyd, our OODA loop: observation, orientation, decision, action. It no longer seems to work properly? One problem is that so much of our collective wisdom is locked away, unread. Only by uncaring scholars. And sometimes by children. As we see in this passage from …

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Good news about the 21st century, a counterbalance to the doomsters

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 2 Comments / 9 May 2008 29 December 2016

As a breath of fresh air after the previous post, I recommend reading this article. I strongly recommend reading this article. A brief excerpt gives the flavor of the contents. “In the Air – Who says big ideas are rare?“, Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker (12 May 2008) Nathan Myhrvold met Jack Horner on the …

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Spreading the news: the end is nigh!

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 4 Comments / 8 May 2008 25 April 2009

Peak Oil as end of civilization is a hot meme. Its spread illustrates how ideas propagate though our society. “Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing“, Tim Bostrom, Technology Review (May/June 2008) — This is a long and subtle analysis of the Fermi Paradox. One section of the essay discusses end-time scenarios: The other possibility is that the Great …

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Peak Oil Doomsters debunked, end of civilization called off

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 80 Comments / 8 May 2008 3 October 2018

Summary: this brief analysis of Matt Savinar‘s Life After the Oil Crash. Are we doomed? Probably not. My title is, of course, fun but absurd. Peak oil is too vast a subject, the range of expert opinion too wide, for any blog post to pose as more than a introduction — showing one perspective of …

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Fears of flying into the future

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 13 Comments / 25 February 2008 26 December 2017

Climate change, peak oil, 4GW, social decay, ecological collapse, economic collapse, pandemics of new and old diseases … The doomsters seem to have taken control of our newspapers, as the list goes on and on, raising the question “How can civilization survive until next week?” Imagine picking up the morning paper, coffee cup in hand. …

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