Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Bob Butler]

FIGHTING FOR what?
You acknowledge that it's a fight. Because it is. Your brand of whatever is responsible for what's going on now and everyone knows that the picture is bleak. There's your flaws.
Blissfully unaware that your tirelessly working to make all these troubles even worse. Blissfully unaware by the Way

In the past, the conservative factions have fought to continue noble privilege, colonial imperialism, slavery, and autocratic conquest. In the current crisis they are pushing a criminal president, medieval superstitions, insurrection, bigotry, weapons of war in the hands of spree killers and a pandemic. My suspicion is that they have turned off enough voters by their dedication to these causes that the crisis is about due to end. Voting for a speaker for weeks on end, and starting an impeachment without a cause rather than focusing on the real issues? Come on.

[Guest]

FIGHTING FOR what?
You acknowledge that it's a fight. Because it is. Your brand of whatever is responsible for what's going on now and everyone knows that the picture is bleak. There's your flaws.
Blissfully unaware that your tirelessly working to make all these troubles even worse. Blissfully unaware by the Way

In the past, the conservative factions have fought to continue noble privilege, colonial imperialism, slavery, and autocratic conquest. In the current crisis they are pushing a criminal president, medieval superstitions, insurrection, bigotry, weapons of war in the hands of spree killers and a pandemic. My suspicion is that they have turned off enough voters by their dedication to these causes that the crisis is about due to end. Voting for a speaker for weeks on end, and starting an impeachment without a cause rather than focusing on the real issues? Come on.

Says the liberal looking out from the veranda of his house in Saint-Domingue in 1803...

[Bob Butler]

FIGHTING FOR what?
You acknowledge that it's a fight. Because it is. Your brand of whatever is responsible for what's going on now and everyone knows that the picture is bleak. There's your flaws.
Blissfully unaware that your tirelessly working to make all these troubles even worse. Blissfully unaware by the Way

In the past, the conservative factions have fought to continue noble privilege, colonial imperialism, slavery, and autocratic conquest. In the current crisis they are pushing a criminal president, medieval superstitions, insurrection, bigotry, weapons of war in the hands of spree killers and a pandemic. My suspicion is that they have turned off enough voters by their dedication to these causes that the crisis is about due to end. Voting for a speaker for weeks on end, and starting an impeachment without a cause rather than focusing on the real issues? Come on.

Says the liberal looking out from the veranda of his house in Saint-Domingue in 1803...

If you think the noble colonial slave owner in Saint Dominique was a liberal, you should work on your reading comprehension. You seem rather blissfully unaware.

[aeden]

Horizontal cultures refer to cultures that emphasize equality. People in horizontal cultures tend to regard others as having more or less the same self, as is typically found in homogeneous cultures. Vertical cultures refer to cultures that tend to accept inequality (Triandis, 1995). Thus, a culture can be characterized by the extent to which it rewards horizontal collectivism (HC), vertical collectivism (VC), horizontal individualism (HI), and vertical individualism (VI).

Paper tiger traps exist.

Also they are replanting nitrogen producing soil plants in South America to exist.
Be careful in this Argentina Bull run and Brazil Marxists have shot themselves in the foot and head unable to adapt to AGILE Capex.

[Guest]

In the past, the conservative factions have fought to continue noble privilege, colonial imperialism, slavery, and autocratic conquest. In the current crisis they are pushing a criminal president, medieval superstitions, insurrection, bigotry, weapons of war in the hands of spree killers and a pandemic. My suspicion is that they have turned off enough voters by their dedication to these causes that the crisis is about due to end. Voting for a speaker for weeks on end, and starting an impeachment without a cause rather than focusing on the real issues? Come on.

Says the liberal looking out from the veranda of his house in Saint-Domingue in 1803...

If you think the noble colonial slave owner in Saint Dominique was a liberal, you should work on your reading comprehension. You seem rather blissfully unaware.

You would have been one of those preaching revolution and was beheaded after realizing that your friends viewed you as an enemy.

[Bob Butler]

Says the liberal looking out from the veranda of his house in Saint-Domingue in 1803...

If you think the noble colonial slave owner in Saint Dominique was a liberal, you should work on your reading comprehension. You seem rather blissfully unaware.

You would have been one of those preaching revolution and was beheaded after realizing that your friends viewed you as an enemy.

Likely not. I fought communism working for the military and three letter agencies in a nice safe blue state. Going to a conservative controlled zone and trying to make trouble is not my style.

[guest]

If you think the noble colonial slave owner in Saint Dominique was a liberal, you should work on your reading comprehension. You seem rather blissfully unaware.

You would have been one of those preaching revolution and was beheaded after realizing that your friends viewed you as an enemy.

Likely not. I fought communism working for the military and three letter agencies in a nice safe blue state. Going to a conservative controlled zone and trying to make trouble is not my style.

I don't think anyone expects you to put yourself in danger/ the line of fire; you are a rear echelon kind of guy. You will be caught by surprise when the golem turns.

[aeden]

Already Has turned.
Page 60 that US is now number 2 if looking at both imports and exports.
US turning is turning into a run down gas station. Senate is awol for decades playing paper.
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/books ... 2023_e.pdf
Butter and bullets. Rest of the already paying attention Planet knows idiocrasy when they see it.
Some of us are still at the dinner moment as they bid half for the debt in sanfran should of
been a head slap moment. The point for the serfs is Janet wrote a check her ass cannot cover.
Johnson gets his ass tossed under the Bus and backed over as the World moved on as the poem said.
They got the cover story set a 2.11 replacement labor pool so there it is. Cool story's about NAFTA
and that side of River they will stay on.
Pundits now bitching about snake operatives in politics. Priceless.

[Bob Butler]

You would have been one of those preaching revolution and was beheaded after realizing that your friends viewed you as an enemy.

Likely not. I fought communism working for the military and three letter agencies in a nice safe blue state. Going to a conservative controlled zone and trying to make trouble is not my style.

I don't think anyone expects you to put yourself in danger/ the line of fire; you are a rear echelon kind of guy. You will be caught by surprise when the golem turns.

In a tourist zone near Cape Cod? Not a place where conservatives are likely to go crazy. Since the DoJ started arresting the Jan 6 offenders, conservatives are much better at talk than action. Too many have seen what happens if you try to use force against the government. You generally see spree killers with assault weapons going against unarmed minorities when they have already decided to commit suicide. Real brave, conservatives.

I also doubt I'd be hiding under the bed. While I may be a rear echelon sort of guy, I did a lot of martial arts in my youth, and am much more likely to go for the nunchucks next to the bed than hide under it. Think about it. How do you expect to move while under there?

[Higgenbotham]

I see recent crises as between a conservative viewpoint that wishes to resist change, and a progressive one that wishes to remove obvious flaws. These flaws could include...slavery...

In the past, the conservative factions have fought to continue...slavery...

As you recall – and as we’ll discuss in greater detail as the course goes on – every American has over 250 invisible energy slaves working 24/7 for them. (52 That is, the labor equivalent of 250 human workers, 24/7, every day of the year, mostly derived from burning fossil carbon and hydrocarbons (60 barrel of oil equivalents of oil, coal and natural gas, X 4.5 years of human labor energy output in each). Every American thus has a veritable army of invisible servants, which is why even those below the official poverty line live, for the most part, lives far more comfortable and lavish with respect to energy and stuff than kings and queens of old (but obviously not as high in social status). Being long dead and pulled from the ground – and thus a bit zombie-esque – these energy slaves don’t complain, don’t sleep, and don’t need to be fed. However, as we are increasingly learning, they do inhale, exhale, and leave behind waste. Since they’re invisible, we don’t think about these fossil helpers any more than we think about nitrogen (which happens to be 78% of what we breathe in, but hey, it’s just “there”, so why think about it?) Same with our 250 energy helpers. The extent we think about them is when we fill up at the pump or pay our electric bill – and then only as an outlay of our limited dollars.

We use the “slave” metaphor because it’s really a very good one, despite its pejorative label. Energy slaves do exactly the sort of things that human slaves and domestic animals previously did: things that fulfilled their masters’ needs and whims. And they do them faster. And cheaper. Indeed, it probably wasn’t a big coincidence that the world (and the USA) got around to freeing most of its human slaves only once industrialization started offering cheaper carbon labor replacements.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017 ... -largesse/

Thing is, the energy slaves will soon be going away forever. In the last 30 years we’ve burned a third of all fossil energy that has been used since it was discovered thousands of years ago.58 Since your authors have been alive, humans have used more energy than in the entire 300,000 year history of homo sapiens.59 We are just now passing through the all-time peak of liquid hydrocarbon availability, which is the chief driver of our economies we’re heading back into times – either gradually or suddenly, but inexorably – in which human labor makes up an increasing percentage of the total energy we have available. One day human (and perhaps animal) labor will again be the majority of the work done in human societies – just like it is in an anthill.

Sadly, there are about 50 million people today who are actually slaves, 9 million more than in 2016 according to a new report published by the UN’s labor agency, with 27.6 million doing forced labor, and 22 million in forced marriage or sex trade (Saric 2022 Modern slavery has risen significantly in last five years, new report says. Axios).

https://energyskeptic.com/2020/energy-slaves/