tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post2041760108541980578..comments2023-12-31T19:34:14.853-05:00Comments on Dymaxion World: Complexity, Vulnerability, and Deceptionjohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690430991814528863noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-24502578977016319442009-12-13T01:26:19.744-05:002009-12-13T01:26:19.744-05:00Thank you, all.
Catelli: my wit is so dry it'...Thank you, all.<br /><br />Catelli: my wit is so dry it's... um... something dry. Like a desert. Yeah, that's it.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09690430991814528863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-42283025830496553672009-12-12T14:53:20.624-05:002009-12-12T14:53:20.624-05:00I'm feeling good, I'm feeling just fine,
U...<i>I'm feeling good, I'm feeling just fine,<br />Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time<br /><br />I'm waiting for my man</i><br /><br />Man, this was a good piece. Thanks!adamhttp://www.emergentbehaviour.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-75526022282187838232009-12-12T13:42:59.804-05:002009-12-12T13:42:59.804-05:00I agree with Zack. When you find the time to writ...I agree with Zack. When you find the time to write, its damned good stuff.<br /><br />Maybe its egotistical, but the impending(?) collapse of Western society appears to be completely unprecedented. <br /><br />The threats we face are multi-fold, climate change (in its various forms), availability of cheap energy, the health of our oceans (a constantly under-appreciated threat), and I'm sure there are others I'm missing (die off of amphibians?). Throw in the unlikely but possible pandemic, "the big one" earthquake, etc. etc. and it becomes hard to avoid a sense of impending doom.<br /><br />What really irks me is that we are completely reluctant to take any preventative measures whatsoever. Because we deal with each threat in isolation (if we deal with it at all) we tend to throw all our resources at the current crises.<br /><br />Take the recent financial collapse. While deficit financing may well have been unavoidable, it cannot be ignored that we threw so much money at that problem that if a new problem happens in the next 2-10 years, we don't have any more cash to deal with that one. (This ignores those that claim that we didn't have any cash to spend this time, we just found a way to whistle past the graveyard. Once.)<br /><br />I don't find your last point about Sorkin's comments unrelated at all (unless that was dry humour, if it was, well put, if it wasn't it should have been!). Its not just Wall Street's problems that haven't been solved, its consumer debt that hasn't been solved either. Institutionally and individually, we have a cash-flow problem. That problem affects our ability to deal with our other impending issues, as we are a cash based society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-86941954019178060112009-12-11T15:31:38.099-05:002009-12-11T15:31:38.099-05:00i could read this stuff all day. <3i could read this stuff all day. <3Zackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797627706914872747noreply@blogger.com