Thanks for your post. It's refreshing to hear more realistic opinions on this situation. I opened up the Hacker News homepage to see if anyone was discussing t

Thanks for your post. It's refreshing to hear more realistic opinions on this situation. I opened up the Hacker News homepage to see if anyone was discussing the US debt crisis. (I'm not American, and I find HN a fairly good source of commentary on US events). There's a non-negligible possibility that the world is about to be plunged into another round of financial crises. I guess from one point of view the current state of the world economy is just a temporary downswing in our epic quest from the caves to the stars. But I'm becoming more inclined to believe that industrial civilisation has already passed its apex, and is now growing increasingly unstable as it attempts to continue infinite growth on a finite world. What's the no #2 article on HN? How our biggest problems are dealing with too much abundance!