I suppose I’ve been a systems type thinker all my life and so it is strange to me how rarely most people connect dots. To me it is quite clear that the GP was r

I suppose I’ve been a systems type thinker all my life and so it is strange to me how rarely most people connect dots. To me it is quite clear that the GP was referencing the externalities of fossil fuel based energy (the movie itself was a very thinly-veiled analogy for the same). Given that lack of systemic thinking as a species, it had become quite clear that we will indeed burn up all our resources to build as many paperclips or some other widget as possible. Look up “paper clip maximizer” for that reference if you’d like.