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From the site: > Zeitgeist II > Capitalism is the Crisis > The Pyramid Code And a bunch of other pseudoscientific conspiracy bullshit I see this tendency
by VMG 13y ago
From the site:
> Zeitgeist II
> Capitalism is the Crisis
> The Pyramid Code
And a bunch of other pseudoscientific conspiracy bullshit
I see this tendency with all documentary collections, subreddits, playlists etc - somehow people love to see made up shit
- danpalmer 13y agoYou can add Collapse to that list as well, some hints of truth, but mostly extreme libertarian FUD.
- dredmorbius 13y agoI've been puzzling over Ruppert for quite some time. I think his history's pretty solid. His projections are where things start to fall apart, and in several of his predictions he's clearly jumped the gun (but then: prediction is hard, especially about the future). He's in pretty good company there. My own sense is that a collapse is likely to take rather longer, though it's also likely to be highly nonlinear -- things can limp along for a quite a while before suddenly falling to pieces. And while not inevitable, I fail to see how a highly complex technological civilization predicated on massive energy flows and high levels of stability can survive the curtailment of both. I also suspect 2007 was a lot dicier than many people realize.
- dredmorbius 13y agoI wouldn't be so fast to knock Capitalism is the Crisis. Chris Hedges is absolutely worth taking a good listen / read of. My apologies if your particular worldview happens to get shaken.
- VMG 13y agoEither way, the list is clearly heavily biased. At least put Free To Choose on there as well.
- dredmorbius 13y agoYou're free to choose to add that to your own list, of course. Oh, turns out that is on YouTube. I watched bits of that in my econ classes, might be useful to watch it again now that I've concluded much of what I was taught was in fact bunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3N2sNnGwa4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3N2sNnGwa4
- ArkyBeagle 13y agoI think it's important to understand both Hedges and Friedman. IMO, the more you look at it, the more profound the divide there is. I think we think we know what we mean by these things, but the older I get, the less sure I am of that.
- dredmorbius 13y agoCare to expand on "what we mean by these things"? If not here, then elsewhere. Hrm ... I've got a sort of bloggy subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius How about a new post: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1v052g/what_we_mean_by_these_things_questions_mostly_on/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1v052g/what_we_...
- mortyseinfeld 13y agoIt should be Government is the Crisis, but let's not shake up your worldview.
- dredmorbius 13y agoIf I were writing titles, it would be something less elegant. "The Dissipative, Self-Organizing System in Entropic Crisis", or "The Population-Growth-Energy-Complexity Nexus". Though I've been leaning toward "The Best of All Possible Worlds". You've got to think about that one a bit. More: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/
- gyom 13y agoDon't even watch the THRIVE stuff either unless you're fond of Egyptians communicating with extra-terrestrials and that kind of nonsense.