Quote from: K-Dog on Aug 16, 2024, 04:46 PM

Quotea good thing...or a bad one...?

You obviously think bad, do you have dirt on him?

I think ambivalent about him. His wiki certainly appears to contain content that casts doubt on his overall veracity.

Quote from: K-DogJohn is a whistleblower.  He is wise to switch his attention to Ayahuasca and shamanism.  It gets the target off his back.  That is Ok, he wrote the book and is an American hero.

Yeah, the wiki substantiates "author", but not "hero". From the wiki I couldn't even tell if the comment related to run of the mill US policy and how it destabilizes the politics of other countries or pushes its business ideas out the door and his writing a book about it as though it is something new is even relevant.

I mean really, like Bay of Pigs didn't happen decades earlier demonstrating that the US certainly screws around in the politics of others, in ways FAR more obvious than diddling around with loans.

Quote from: K-DogJohn became a man of conscious, you have a problem with that?

Maybe he had already had one before he wrote the book? And Hitler had a conscious, so that isn't much of a bar to pretend someone doesn't have.

Quote from: K-DogI get what you're saying I agree with you but due to the trajectory
that we're currently on right now now in this world in this nation do you really see that as a possibility?

You say "trajectory we're currently on right now" and I'm betting you don't mean the US whupping the world at oil production, reuseable rockets not possible 5 years ago, private businesses boosting cars towards Mars just because they can and the US still being...you know...the US....?

I agree that the trajectory of humans being human continues. And that the consequences of that have been both good and bad since slightly after agriculture was invented.

I agree that I don't see THIS trajectory changing, and it seems safe to go with millenia of humans being human as continuing in the future.

Quote from: K-DogI feel no need to educate John Perkins about Jevon's Paradox and that the existing system will actually use more fossil fuels than would be used without any solar at all.  I'll bore everyone with that math on another day.  JP is in a good place.  Why harsh the buzz.

Jevons paradox is the original concept, so good thing you don't need to educate him on outmoded ideas, the rebound effect is more the modern expression of this ECONOMIC issue, math is a science of the natural world, economics is social science because folks who can't do math need to tell stories that aren't required to be grounded in the natural world.

Not being familiar with "a good buzz" I'll take your word that being drunk/stoned/high/tripping/doped/wasted/buzzed/smashed/plastered/bombed and baked is a good thing.

I only needed one drunk in the family as a 10 year old to learn this.