Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 26, 2024, 10:36 AMHopium is not the same thing as hope.  Hope is what people who are DOING SOMETHING have.  Hopium is what people who are passive and don't DO ANYTHING have.

Hopium is internally generated to maintain a passive do nothing attitude.  Hopium imagines the power of ideas will triumph in the real world because they have an independent existence.

Well, all you need to disprove this hypothesis is a single example to negate it.  I have one.  It's ME!  :)  :)  :)

I'm an idealist, but definitely not a "Do Nothing".  I write a whole lot and make videos to inform people about collapse.  In both cases a good deal more than you.

I also don't have have Hopium.  I have what I consider the very realistic HOPE that collapse will lead to a very extreme population knockdown of 99.9% or greater in the near term, which I define as within 100-200 years.  After that either stabilization or a rebound until we finally do go extinct, which of course is inevitable.  I have set the date for extinction also.  In the Year 2525.  ;D


Most people would consider this very Doomerish, after all it postulates the death of more than 8B people over a very short time.  It also postulates a return to stone age technology and living standards, barely different from the way Bonobos live.  Which makes sense since we share 98% the same DNA code.  But NOOOOOOO.  Not good enough for you and Dr. McStinksion, you gotta have every last fucking Homo Sap stone cold dead shortly after the oil drops off the map.  Meibee so, but it's not written in stone and it ain't ovah till the fat lady sings.  She sings to you, but not to me.



I doubt either of us will live long enough to even see the end of the first halving year when 4B people die.  We'll be with that cohort for sure.  5 years later with exponential negative growth 2B, and at 5 years there's STILL 3% of the original population left.  That would be 240M people for those of you with weak math skills.

So, we'll never get that question resolved on these pages either, which leaves us only with another equine to tenderize.  Do we really need to waste everybody's time with this one also?  ::)



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