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Scott Endler's avatar

"In order to avoid an abrupt downturn, we would be also working on prolonging the descent as much as possible and making it less steep, not pretending that it can be avoided... "

A concept that I like to apply to this comes out of airflight training: When you know that you are forced to go down, use whatever means and decisions you have remaining to "extend the glide" and look for a safer place to land.

We would be (finally) wise to focus our remaining energy and materials wealth to build out the things that we (they in the mid-time future) will really need. Quit squandering them at the frivolous whim of "The Market".

Muscle powered local water, food, and fiber systems. Zero energy (not net zero) 1,000 year communal dwellings. Local distributed 200 year (not the cheapest price point) solar systems to maintain some lighting and radio communication. As much essential knowledge into printed books in libraries.

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John Day MD's avatar

Thank You, B, for the reminder that "civilizations die by suicide, not by murder".

B: "Given this deadlock, where questions of physics, geology, mathematics or military science are subject to loyalty tests, it is hard to imagine how a realistic plan could be put forward."

There ae rational people who have shown "loyalty" so far, but may be practicing sabotage. Degrading the control-narrative around the "suicidal plan" may be more readily done.

Gilbert Doctorow presents the case here that the "overheard" German general-staff phone-discussion about using German Taurus long range cruise missiles to take-out the Crimean Bridge may have been intentional sabotage against the prevailing neocon agenda.

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/04/9718/

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