Ed Cregger wrote:

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No offense intended, but the first really scary thing that I learned as an
adult was that there is no "they". It is all random. See, I told you that
was scary.
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Well, I differ, the "they" are those in power with the chance to make
things better, or make a buck--however, we seem to live in a world where
this two things are mutually exclusive! If it were I or you, or we
together, who were the ones in "power", we would face great temptations
to do the same--sell out our fellow citizens to fatten our wallets. The
safeguards, which were once in place, are now gone--money purchasing
your congressmen and senators fixed that ...


Anyway, we have another chance, in fact, multitude chances, to save our
civilization. But it will probably spring from technologies and ways of
thinking which we cannot even imagine presently.

Try to enjoy the good things and times while they are here, for they too are
transitory. And just in case you forgot, so are we.

Ed Cregger



We are indeed in a time of GREAT transition. The gold in the gold
fields is gone. The BIG trees in the forests have all been harvested.
In the Sierra Nevada's, "they" have left belts of trees along the
highways for aesthetics, but venture a little ways off these highways
and you find great areas of clear cut land. In the old days, one single
log could fill a logging truck; today, these trucks appear to be
carrying loads of pencils! Every acre of ground is now in the hands of
private citizens, companies/corps or the gov't. All the farm ground is
now in production which is economically feasible to grow crops on; we
tax the reserves of cheaply available fertilizer we have left to raise
these crops. Every gallon of water in the lakes, rivers and streams is
owned by some entity.

Without anymore natural resources to exploit--we now face a much
different world. While capitalism was wonderful when resources were
abundantly plentiful to be raped, it will now be interesting to see how
it functions.

I see a world with vast numbers of impoverished "have-nothings" and a
few members of a ruling class with their knaves and female servents ...
but come hell-or-high-water, we shall see this "new world order." The
gears which bring it turn now; and, I see none powerful enough to halt them.

But then, I digress from antennas ...

Regards,
JS