I like the little things
Coolish today, only 46℉ with Barometer at 30.3 in/Hg. But the sky is blue and there is just a stirring of breeze. Can’t complain even a little bit.
So JMG, who can unfortunately count me as a fanboy (which I am certain detracts from his overall reputation) is going back to his roots. He started out as the Archdruid of peak oil, and then eight some-odd years ago he bagged out his Blogger account and started afresh over at Ecosophia. At Ecosophia he tilted much more toward being the spiritual archdruid and less the political archdruid.
This little project here at the seriously hippy cul de sac of the internet (Dreamwidth) came about because this is where his secondary project of smaller pieces that I am certain provides him with considerable grist for the mill of his writing.
Like JMG, I wrote for years over on Blogger, unlike him I abandoned the site when Blogger tried to “improve my experience” too much. I have recently started posting again over there because it is a good backup for the stuff I have been writing. Not that I dislike the service at Dreamwidth, but the changes and the consolidation of the “internet industry” makes me feel like I should back things up from the place I have been writing.
Anyway, back to the point I was trying to make. JMG is doing a “upon mature reflection” upon the ideas and beliefs of almost twenty years ago. This is a good thing, so I am going to follow his lead and maybe parallel what he is discussing. I am going to start here with a comment that I laid down:
- May 7, 2025 at 2:21 pm
Good post, got me thinking. - I think (definitely don’t know, more or a belief) that the reason that I think that the “Peak Oil” crowd’s flame guttered out was the fact that they tended to obsess on “Peak Oil” rather than “Peak Energy”. I am especially intrigued by electricity production and consumption.
- I have personally been obsessing (and not all that productively to be honest) on how to blend the three measures (Oil/total energy/electricity production/consumption). I think that the main reason that the peak oil group fell apart was the focus on a single variable in a multivariate environment.
- That and, at the end of the day, it will come down to telling people that they will have to take less.
This is the way that JMG answered.
Degringolade, those were factors, sure, but I thought at the time there was much more going on than that, and at this point — as it’s become clear how much of the US federal budget was being turned into a slush fund for various unsavory social-engineering projects — I’m even more convinced of that. But we’ll talk more about that in future posts.
SOOOOOO……
I think that I am going to approve of this. But if JMG continues along the path that I think he is going to take, he is going to be more discussing the (mal?)adaptations put in place by eight different congresses and four different presidents coupled with the rise of two to three competitive civilizations.
I am cursed with what seems to be a pretty accurate memory. I mention this because I do remember posts made in the deep dark past at the original site over at blogger. I think that folks should consider going over the wayback machine and reading these three posts
https://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/dark-age-america-involuntary-simplicity.html
https://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/dark-age-america-end-of-market-economy.html
https://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-politics-of-transition.html
I haven’t decided just what to do with this particular post, I don’t want to copy the whole thing and force it upon the unwilling over at JMG’s place, but if you run across this in your internet travels, tell me what to do with this.
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