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08 Jul 2010, 3:26 pm

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Going across the country, we need a collapse of a oil based society.



But the point of this would be to head off such a crisis before it occurs so that infrastructure is in place before the collapse. I mean I can see how society will just continue on forward to the collapse without a structure in place but it'd be wise to at least try to set up some kind of structure beforehand for such a collapse as the oil based society. It'd be foolish to do nothing before such a collapse.


Yes, but I just think that society is remarkably shortsighted in regards to this sort of situation here.



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08 Jul 2010, 3:29 pm

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The flat parts are privately owned.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00783.html


Ownership doesn't matter when the right people don't want it to.


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08 Jul 2010, 3:30 pm

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skafather84 wrote:
Quartz11 wrote:
Going across the country, we need a collapse of a oil based society.



But the point of this would be to head off such a crisis before it occurs so that infrastructure is in place before the collapse. I mean I can see how society will just continue on forward to the collapse without a structure in place but it'd be wise to at least try to set up some kind of structure beforehand for such a collapse as the oil based society. It'd be foolish to do nothing before such a collapse.


Yes, but I just think that society is remarkably shortsighted in regards to this sort of situation here.


Yeah, we're not a society of preparation. Just retardation.


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08 Jul 2010, 3:53 pm

skafather84 wrote:
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The flat parts are privately owned.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00783.html


Ownership doesn't matter when the right people don't want it to.


The matter will be fought in the courts for a decade. That is one of the reasons we don't have a centrally planned economy.

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08 Jul 2010, 3:54 pm

skafather84 wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
The flat parts are privately owned.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00783.html


Ownership doesn't matter when the right people don't want it to.


That was a sad and disgusting day.

Having been to New London and seen this neighborhood, all they did was build one office complex and that was it. And then the company moved three years later anyway. The entire neighborhood got leveled for NOTHING.