paranoid. apparently we are going to run out of oil very quickly in the next few years and return to a medieval mode of existence. this is the best news i have heard all day.
yay! where did you go? no, you shouldn't be. Oil prices are based on future supplies, on the moment prices are quite high but there is no panic, and they are expected to come down in a couple of years. Actually the problem now is that we cannot refine the crude oil fast enough, hence the higher prices. Ah, the things one learns during exam time!
well, I don't think I'd mind, I rather fancy myself driving a pony and trap, with red ribbons I think. And we'll have less obese people as they might actually have to walk places!
Might put an end to global warming anyway - what a clever planet, not having enough oil to kill itself (ooh, Gaia-theories springing to mind).
We'll stop being alienated from the world. The total society brought about by capitalism, consumerism and authoritarianism will become impossible. Anarchism will be a real possibility - if we are prepared.
Hmm, surely the point of this new society will be to avoid anarchism? With everything becoming localised there will be no central power to o'erthrow, and you will have no mission in life - is that what you really want?
Not really - anarchy is about society ruling itself at the lowest possible level (eg, on an individidual one), and governemnt hampers this. The chaos post-oil means means land, property is ripe for the picking. We just need to be prepared so that we can take the land and form an anarchistic society.
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no, you shouldn't be. Oil prices are based on future supplies, on the moment prices are quite high but there is no panic, and they are expected to come down in a couple of years. Actually the problem now is that we cannot refine the crude oil fast enough, hence the higher prices.
Ah, the things one learns during exam time!
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I hope it's true anyway.
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well, I don't think I'd mind, I rather fancy myself driving a pony and trap, with red ribbons I think. And we'll have less obese people as they might actually have to walk places!
Might put an end to global warming anyway - what a clever planet, not having enough oil to kill itself (ooh, Gaia-theories springing to mind).
Toodle pip!
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I will go for a ginarchy every time, I think....
wait a minute... the whole point of MSN blocking was so that I DON'T talk to you - bad Mike, bad Mike!
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OK get back to work!
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