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Old 09-20-2018, 08:45 PM   #116 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler
Again, Scale. Once you start to add things up you realize the futility of clinging to the belief that we can keep the same level of Western civilization up after oil availability tips over the top in 20 years driving the price out of reach of the middle class.
The only acceptable solution is to rise above the [current] level of Western civilization. Without, of course, throwing the baby out with the dirty, dirty bathwater.

The was the whole point of R. B. Fuller's Design Science Revolution. New technical artifacts are required of course, but a large part of it takes place between the ears of what I've come to learn are Non Player characters. AKA normies.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cat+vs+win...ll&t=h_&ia=web

Why is a dust-print of a bird on the outside of an office window funny, but a windmill is not?
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