[K-Dog]

It wasn't until Peak Oil as a concept became a subject of bloggers and on forums after the turn of the millenium there was an emergence of people who gained enough attention to become "Personalities" associated with Collapse.  Our old friends (sic) like Orlov, Greer and Kunstler wrote their books and LATOC and Peak Oil forums popped up.  Then we had the collapse of Lehman and the Financial Crisis which is when economists like yours truly jumped on the bandwagon.  I would put Peak Personalities coming sometime between 2008 and 2016, after which time things began to taper off.

And that is a good thing.  Our old friends (sic) were not so pure at heart.  Their interest was mercenary and as long as collapse was a bean feed for them they were around.  When that stopped they were gone.

Evidence for my claim.  All three are still alive and pursuing other lucrative adventures.  Greer is Mr. Magic.  Kunstler works for the deep state deliberately attracting nutjobs to his site for listing.  Orlov still pumps his true believers for cash I imagine, but I don't know since I won't read him.

I stopped reading him when he wrote to me "that we would never meet and he does not have to be nice to me.

Let them circle jerk each other.

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Orlov is probably still on Putin's Payroll and Kunstler is one of those ex-NY Liberals morphed into  Conservatives in old age.  Mr. Wizard is just what he always was, a pseudo-intellectual blowhard incapable of defending his idiotic proclamations so he just deletes anyone who disagrees with him and doesn't kiss his ass.  I haven't visited any of their websites in years.

Gail still runs her site, but her actuary's eye viewpoint is very repetitive, so there is nothing new there for old timers, and she also is not charismatic and not bikini material. lol.  Richard Heinberg is still blogging, now at

https://richardheinberg.com/museletter-369-something-wicked-this-way-comes

Haven't read any of his recent stuff though.

Anyhow, I'm not expecting we'll ever go viral,  I just like keeping in touch with old friends who think about the topics and enjoy chatting about them.  There's always some new twist popping up, collapse is the gift that keeps on giving. 

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We stand about as much chance of "rewilding" the internet as Doomers who are prepping for TEOTWAWKI stand of surving collapse by going out today and trying to live by "rewilding" in some national park or in the Amazon.  There's not enough "wild" space left anymore to live, even if you're Eustace Conway or Cody Lunden and all you need is a knife and you can survive in the Kalahari desert.

The days of the Wild West in Cyberspace are gone forever.  But from about 1985 until the party was over in 1999, it was great.

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

We Need To Rewild The Internet

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[K-Dog]

Kunstler is one of those ex-NY Liberals morphed into  Conservatives in old age. 
Haven't read any of his recent stuff though.

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That is being kind.  I actually still read Kunstler, but I always do it through a VPN.  I use the VPN as a pair of psychological hip-waders.

Kunstler is not a conservative.  He is a flaming asshole racist who think Palestinians wipe their ass with their fingers.  A century and a half ago he would be an injun-hater.  From Kunstler's point of view if you are not white, you are not right.

I go there to watch his decline.  It is a cheap thrill to know his writing is not what it used to be.  Considering what I was put through, and that he knows something about it makes my interest understandable, and not a character flaw.  He writes a lot of his own comments, desperate to keep his honey trap funded. 

He never was much for substance.  His writing is, and was all style.  He studied other writers to get good at being the sophist he is.  As time goes by seeing what he is doing gives me insight about what he put me through, and the government abomination he calls a website.

I am banned from leaving a comment and that is a good thing.  Being banned means the motherfucker only gets five minutes of my time a week.  I am prevented from obsessing.  When I got the boot my life got a little better.

If Kunstler went to the Holy Land.  Bibi would put him up.