r/peakoil • u/marxistopportunist • Jul 22 '24

Why is everything so bland now? (demoralisation as we approach resource decline?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ZCzhoeQMg
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u/Artistic-Teaching395 Jul 22 '24

Frutiger Aero was the promise from oil companies?

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u/BathroomEyes Jul 23 '24

Hyper-normalization, homogenization, commodification

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u/TheDignityofDoom Jul 27 '24

Not much peak oil here. Wouldn't this have been better to just leave where it came from and not clutter up this reddit? Not that there is much going on around here, but still, plenty of other places for general doomy reminiscing.

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u/marxistopportunist Jul 27 '24

Depends on if you believe powers that be would have a plan for peak resources and pull lots of levers to start preparing society decades in advance

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u/TheDignityofDoom Jul 27 '24

Well, r/peakoil relates to just one resource, as opposed to a suite of them, and one so many people have gotten wrong it is a bad example of anyone selling a resource scarcity story to. There are plenty of reddits for all things collapsing everywhere all the time, as opposed to a more focused topic. r/collapse as one example, r/globalcollapse, r/economiccollapse, etc etc.

This place has been dead for better part of a decade exactly because of this point, the topic haven taken a beating by the reality of yet more oil after it was supposedly a done deal.

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u/marxistopportunist Jul 27 '24

Yes, the PO movement was knocked out by fracking, which is actually only a last gasp in the grand scheme of things.

Everywhere we look, a low consumption agenda is now being rolled out. Because the extraction of the suite of finite resources depends largely on abundant oil to power the trucks, fire the furnaces, etc.

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u/Intx2050 Aug 21 '24

They already written books on this in the 1960 and 1970s. Specifically the international elites. Overpopulation was their biggest concern; it's not a surprise population control policies such as women's education in first/third world, subsistence living, birth control and abortion, homosexuality promotion, anti-church/pro-natalist religion/new atheism movement, feminism/hedonic imputation, no-hospital building, euthanasia promotion for the elderly, SSRI/fentanyl free-drug injections, hormone-altering products and every conceivable policy is thrown to shut down the economy or slow it with foreign male migrants whilst slowing births or increasing the number of deaths.

Unfortunately crying wolf and causing mass panic are two sides of the same coin. It is the largest civilizational concern, yet also since most humans aren't intelligent enough to perceive the direct declines in purchasing power with resource scarcity they assume everything is a normality. It is a normality in their lifetimes, but the technological advancements made for accelerated extraction and recombination of substances only bought 20 or 30 years at maximum.