In my new PJ Media column, everyone seems so glum about the future, so I look into exactly what are we worried about if the worst comes to fruition.
And let’s say our first worst-case scenario has already happened, and we’re all now forest-dwelling savages. Then our nation could get hit with a nuclear bomb, and most of the country wouldn’t even notice. We’d just go along trying to kill deer with pointy sticks, as usual. So instead of these worst-case scenarios stacking, they kind of cancel each other out.
A number of negative comments to this one already. I’m just trying to get people to stay positive!
One of those commenters says…
That’s confusing! He’s trying to say he doesn’t like the piece but then compares you to Mark Steyn. Sure, he’s saying Mark Steyn on drugs – but hey – MARK freakin’ STEYN fer G*d’s sake!!!
Note to the quoted commenter: If you want to hurt an author’s feelings, tell him he sound like Andrew Sullivan on one of his good days.
I love the “I’ll never come to this site again!” histronics.
@FormerHostage:
“I’ve posted this here before and I’ll post it again: I’ll never come to this site again!”
I never realized how many ijits hang around at PJ. But then I don’t often read the comments. I think I should now, they are really entertaining.
Look at the upside. Government won’t be able to prohibit drilling in ANWR; homemade soda will be distributed in 32 oz cups; parking spaces will be easy to find; personal carbon footprints will be limited only by the amount of wood one can gather; incandescent light bulbs will become objects of worship.
…I wax optimistic.
We can always squeeze hippies for oil. In a van down by the river!
The first scenario would be fine, as long as they destroy all bath salts!
Just hope that someone doesn’t cut down the tree you’re living in for firewood.
It will be fun to see democrats try and survive. Except there may not be popcorn.
Burmashave has a good point, as usual.
What do we expect after 100 years from a phony money system that’s designed to inflate itself away, deficit-funded government, socialist programs, increasing restrictions on economic output, etc., etc., One day people are going to wake up and discover that economics and politics CAN’T mix.
Until then, we have nowhere to go but down.
I don’t think that “black comedy” means what one of your posters thinks it means.
@blarg
RACIST!
Wow, PJ Media – tough crowd!
@blarg: Me? Am I missing some Vizzini sarcarsm?
@Burmashave no…one of the posters responding to the article on PJ media.
@blarg: Ahhhhh, sorry. I had used the term in a previous thread.
If the carp is going to hit the fan, I hope it happens before I get much older.
I don’t want to be the only Mad Max, post-apocalypse, hunter-gatherer wearing Depends.
I’ll probably be more like that guy from the old Twilight Zone episode who survives the end of the world in a bank vault, then breaks his only pair of glasses so he can’t read the books he loves.
Remember that movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy!?
The bushmen and other primitive tribes around the world will survive the collapse without even noticing it.
I hate those guys!