I always try to find historical parallels.
In the 1920s Henry Ford made one of his few unsuccessful investments by losing a huge fortune in trying to develop rubber farms in Brazil he was, in fact, prescient.
In 1942 Japan held all the available rubber-tree growing area. Some movies made in 1942 show people fighting over a tire. What rubber we had was being emergency recycled for military use.
My family used to tell me how BAD the new artificial rubber was back then.
But by 1945 the new tires were better than the old ones.
It is important that we recognize the difference between a really serious problem and The End of Civilization As We Know It.
Looking back, we find the rubber shortage almost amusing. It was NOT amusing at the time. Henry Ford didn’t build all those rubber plantations to protect his car production because it was a minor matter.
Peak Oil IS a serious matter. Serious matters like that, as Peak Oil folks point out, is what revolutions are built on.
Simmons may have converted me on that. The day one can’t be converted by reasonable argument is the day his mind is dead.
But this does not make the “Oh, God, all is lost! Civilization is DOOMED!” talk sensible.
That’s not Simmons. That’s the panic wing of Peak Oil.
Tack with the friggin’ wind, gang, but don’t jump overboard.
#1 by Z on 03/27/2008 - 11:21 pm
I thought that I should point out this article in the “American Thinker.” Its a web based magazine which is regularly cited by Limbaugh on his show. Just like the Buchanan article that we discussed a week ago, this article is very hard hitting for “respectable conservative” standards.
I think you all may want to check it out. It again shows that times are changing in a major way. It could easily have been an Amren article.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/typical_white_factbased_reason.html
#2 by Bob on 03/28/2008 - 8:44 am
What is funny is that so many SFers shared the idea that Obama meant reacial debate was OVER.
#3 by Simmons on 03/28/2008 - 10:29 am
As for PO it won’t kill whites that is for sure. My gripe is that white ingenuity is used to help non-whites or to cater to them. I really could care less if little tyrone has a cell phone or an I-pod. Whites have gone from the tech of the Apollo program to now providing amusement toys for morons and having the audacity to call it “progress.” Its called Evolution people, and the white/jewish libs and the other colored cultists hate it. PO is but a bottleneck in it.
#4 by Z on 03/28/2008 - 11:07 am
Yes, I’m glad I never did start my racial education over there. Becoming a member of SF should come with a free prescription of anti-depressants.
But SF isn’t alone, most WN websites are depressing. But that’s only because they allow themselves to be deceived by our enemies’ “reality.” And these are some of the same people who “know” that multicultural “nations” don’t work.
I was much the same way, even when I came here at first. But then I came to grips with the fact that multi-ethnic states don’t work. If someone believes this (As I do) and doesn’t just say it for propaganda purposes, then one must concede that our current system is unattainable.
The problem with SF and other WN is they don’t believe their own propaganda. To them, it is only propaganda. But to BUGS, it’s fact. That is why we can speak with confidence. As much as the SPLC or ADL like to call SF “White Supremacists” the fact is, they’re nothing of the sort.
The same way centrally planned economies don’t work, the same goes for multi-ethnic states. We see evidence for both but for some reason, no one can point out the latter. But the parallels are the same. In the former USSR, no one could say that the economy didn’t work because the elite was dependent on this mythology for THEIR way of life (the elite in the USSR lived well). The same holds true for multi-ethnic states. The elite in the West depend on “diversity” for THEIR way of life. That is why this is not allowed to be said.
It’s time SF starts believing its own propaganda.
#5 by Pain on 03/28/2008 - 3:55 pm
When a conservative or an SFer talks about the next world-shaking catastrophe, isn’t that his hope that things will get better?
He seems to be thinking that WWII ended the Depression or that the Depression led to a racial government in Germany, so the answer to the genocide going on now is another like catastrophe. Something like this: we run out of oil, things grind to a standstill, the world breaks up into warring ethnicities, whites win, and the world rises from the ashes…
So in this thinking, the loss of oil is a good thing. It’s Mel Gibson in Thunderdome.
#6 by Bob on 03/28/2008 - 6:09 pm
Pain, as you know, this “Let’s wait for the disaster” stuff is cowardice and laziness.
#7 by mderpelding on 03/28/2008 - 7:03 pm
In all of our history, how long have we been dependent on oil?
A few hundred years.
At best.
Either we find a better energy source, our we don’t.
This is an engineering problem. Not an existential problem.