The Apocalypse: It has begun
Jerry Abbott
In the early 20th century, Adolf Hitler and Germany offered the world a
philosophy and a way of living that was probably the single hope for
Mankind's effective surmounting of the disaster that is now nearly upon us.
Hitler's ideas were arrogantly and viciously rejected. But National
Socialism was the right way to live: in intelligent accord with nature. By
refusing it, humanity incurred a penalty, and payment will soon be enforced
by the laws of nature.
The depletion of crude oil reserves and natural gas during the early 21st
century will cause the collapse of industrial civilization and a reduction
of the world's human population to levels consistent with hoe-and-spade
agriculture. Others have already described it well. For examples, see these
pages:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
To the warnings of David Price and Matt Savinar, I will make my own modest
contribution.
Since the 1960s, people in the know with the oil industry have been warning
of the eventual depletion of fossil fuels. They've been saying that our
world will be broken, civilization smashed, when the deposits of crude oil
run out. Every informed prediction placed the onset of the cataclysm in the
first half of the 21st century, with the troubles continuing until the early
22nd.
Among the more interesting predictions is this one. The world's population
in 2050 is expected to be between 9 billion and 11 billion. In 2100, though,
the world's population is expected to be four billion at most and possibly
as few as 400 million. Canada, the USA, and Mexico at present have more
people than this between them. (Certain UN projections made since World3
have been "sanitized" for political reasons. Don't believe any projection
that simply shows the human population of the globe going up without end.)
Indeed, the lower population figure may be optimistic. For several centuries
during the Middle Ages, the human population of the world hovered around 400
million, which can be presumed the stable population level based on
hoe-and-spade agriculture, if augmented by an established system of
agricultural trade. Mechanized agriculture, through the overuse of tractors
(resulting in lost topsoil) and artificial fertilizers (resulting in sterile
topsoil), will have made the Earth much less responsive to hoe-and-spade
farming in 2100 than it was in 1200.
Can you appreciate what that must mean? It means that there's going to be a
massive die-off of humanity, along with a great deal of this planet's life.
What will happen in the next hundred years will be of geological importance,
the like of which hasn't happened since the extinction of the dinosaurs, 65
million years ago.
Technology won't save us. Technology was invented to use energy; it doesn't
create new energy resources. Even technological improvements in our ability
to tap energy depend on the availability of a sufficient energy resource to
be tapped. That's the problem: there won't be any such resource. There never
will be a "Star Trek" future. Homo sapiens is nearly finished as a technical
species.
Oh, we might have done it. We might have reached the methane oceans of
Titan, or set up ten thousand nuclear reactors on the moon. With the
resources of the whole solar system at our command, we might have found even
interstellar travel possible. But we didn't take advantage of the generous
window of opportunity that nature had given us. And now it's too late. Burn
your science fiction books; they'll only make our descendants sad for a
future that will never be theirs. But keep your fantasy novels. They'll
enjoy those.
Our government won't protect us. It isn't even going to try. The politicians
have begun looking upon their own electorates as the primary threat to their
safety. When the crash happens, people will understand that they were misled
and betrayed. The new security measures, including the closure of
Pennsylvania Avenue and the concrete bunkering of the British Parliament
aren't wards against terrorists. They're wards against you. A great deal of
the changes in the national security practices of Western countries, lately,
has been made in anticipation of defending the national betrayers from the
national population. And as the economic situation worsens, the government
elites will provide themselves with more of that kind of "national security"
(all for them, none for us) while stridently directing your attention at
supposed foreign threats.
Those young American soldiers in Iraq should become aware that their
government is acting solely for the benefit of its rich backers and has
every intention of letting US servicemen, and their families, freeze in the
winter and starve to death once their usefulness is finished. Government of
that kind is treasonous. Serving it is, too.
You have maybe 20 years to provision and fortify yourself against privation,
happenstance, and banditry. Cities will be worse than the countryside, but
the countryside will certainly not be safe. Humanity may become extinct in
very large regions, surviving only in pockets where food will still grow.
Get yourself into one of those pockets, then, before the competition gets
too stiff. Buy a few acres of land. Secure your title from legal challenges.
Secure your possession from illegal ones. Provision yourself against natural
ones. Keep a low profile. Listen to the wind. Heed your instinctive warning
feelings. And wait.
I'm 44 years old. My parents' generation was the last not to be affected by
the depletion of fossil fuels. My generation will be the first to be
affected somewhat-about when I'm 65 years old. Since beyond that moment
retirement will be the same as death, you can appreciate the morbid, cynical
joke implied by the phrase "retirement age." My daughter's generation will
be the first to be hit hard in mid-life. My grandchildren will live most of
their lives after the crash. My great-grandchildren will never know any
other life but that of the post-industrial chaos.
If anything deserves to be called the Apocalypse of the Book of Revelations,
then the 21st century die-off surely is it. Nasty times are coming. They
won't last forever, but they will occupy perhaps 50 to 90 years of the near
future. When those who are to die in the troubles have died, when all those
who remain are able to support themselves without electricity or
petro-chemicals, then people can begin to trust each other again. But not
before. You must carry your family successfully through every one of the
dangerous years, during which one misstep, a single error of judgment, might
be fatal.
National Socialism offered us genuine salvation in the 1930s. We chose the
opium of materialism, the cocaine of Democracy, and the methamphetimine of
decadent amusements, instead. And so, we've failed, and Earth will never get
another chance produce a species able to climb out of its planetary cradle.
We had our chance, and we lost it through treason and stupidity. We became
deluded with the fantasies of Democracy, racial equality, and capitalism.
The Jews, never ones to value eternal destinies, used these ideas as
political weapons, but they were able to harm us so much only because we
were criminally gullible.
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Relevant Quotations.
Perhaps the most widespread evil is the Western view of man and nature.
Among us, it is widely believed that man is apart from nature, superior to
it; indeed, evolution is a process to create man and seat him on the apex of
the cosmic pinnacle. He views the earth as a treasury that he can plunder at
will. And, indeed, the behavior of Western people, notably since the advent
of the Industrial Revolution, gives incontrovertible evidence to support
this assertion.
- Ian McHarg, 1971
It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it
here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the
sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will
have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet
is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no
species however competent can make the long climb from primitive conditions
to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair. If we fail, this
planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The same will be
true of other planetary systems. On each of them there will be one chance,
and one chance only.
- Sir Fred Hoyle, 1964
First struggle and then we shall see what can be done. Otherwise mankind has
passed the high point of its development and the end is not the domination
of any ethical idea but barbarism and consequently chaos. At this point
someone or other may laugh, but this planet once moved through space for
millions of years without human beings and it can do so again some day if
men forget that they owe their higher existence, not to the ideas of a few
crazy ideologists, but to the knowledge and ruthless application of Nature's
stern and rigid laws. Everything we admire on this earth today-science and
art, technology and inventions-is only the creative product of a few peoples
and originally perhaps of one race. On them depends the existence of this
whole culture. If they perish, the beauty of this earth will sink into the
grave with them.
-Adolf Hitler
It is unlikely that anything quite like human beings will come this way
again. The resources that have made humans what they are will be gone, and
there may not be time before the sun burns out for new deposits of fossil
fuel to form and intelligent new scavengers to evolve. The universe seems to
have had a unique beginning, some ten or twenty billion years ago. Since
that time, a star had to live and die to provide the materials for the solar
system-which, itself, is several billion years old. Perhaps life could not
have happened any sooner than it did. Perhaps Homo sapiens could not have
evolved any sooner. Or later. Perhaps everything has its season, a window of
opportunity that opens for a while, then shuts.
-David Price
Other factors remaining constant, culture evolves as the amount of energy
harnessed per capita per year is increased, or as the efficiency of the
instrumental means of putting the energy to work is increased. . We may now
sketch the history of cultural development from this standpoint.
-Leslie White, "White's Law"
Jerry Abbott's comment: White's Law leaves too much implicit. Other factors
are not constant, and in particular the racial factor in those "instrumental
means" is an important variable. Race can be thought of as an index to the
efficiency with which energy is transformed into culture. Some races of
humans transform energy into culture with great efficiency; other races do
so only inefficiently, if at all.
Any number of factors could be cited as the 'causes' of collapse. I believe,
however, that the collapse will be strongly correlated with an epidemic of
permanent blackouts of high-voltage electric power networks worldwide.
Briefly explained: When the electricity goes out, you are back in the Dark
Age. And the Stone Age is just around the corner.
-Richard Duncan
How does this relate to the Bush cabal and the war in Iraq? The super rich
of the world are in possession of this information. They know the
cornerstone of Western civilization is electricity, powered mostly by oil,
and they know it's running out. Their objective is to get control of all of
it, for that incredible day that will soon arrive when the blackouts start.
The blackouts, Duncan writes, will become more and more frequent until one
day, most of the world will be blacked out, except for the super rich in
their armored compounds. Don't think that Donald Rumsfeld's house will be
blacked out. He and his friends will have cornered the electricity market
(actually, he'll be dead by then, but his heirs and disciples will be in
control of the power supply by then-and this is to say nothing about water).
So the push into Iraq, and soon into Saudi Arabia, will be aimed at securing
enough oil to forestall blackout day for the rich for as long as possible.
The majority of the rest of the world will be plunged into darkness and
primitivism long before that, and the world will evolve into a two-tiered
system, even moreso than it is now. Because there will be those with power,
and those who are left in the dark.
-John Kaminski, The Awful Secret
That resigned submission to the terrible law of decay-that acceptance of the
bondage of time by creatures who dimly feel that they could be free from it,
but who find it hard to try to free themselves; who know beforehand that
they would never succeed, even if they did try-is at the bottom of that
incurable unhappiness of man, deplored again and again in the Greek
tragedies, and long before these were written. Man is unhappy because he
knows, because he feels, in general, that the world in which he lives and of
which he is a part, is not what it should be, what it could be. He cannot
wholeheartedly accept that world as his-specially not accept the fact that
it is going from bad to worse-and be glad. However much he may try to be a
"realist" and snatch from destiny whatever he can, when he can, still an
invincible yearning for the better remains at the bottom of his heart. He
cannot, in general, will the world as it is.
But a few people, as rare as the liberated ones, for whom time does not
exist, and perhaps rarer, can and do. These are the most thorough, the most
mercilessly effective agents of the death forces on earth: supremely
intelligent, and sometimes extraordinarily farsighted; always unscrupulous
to the utmost; working without hesitation and without remorse in the sense
of the downward process of history and, whether they can see or not as far
as that, for its logical conclusion: the annihilation of man and of all
life.
Naturally, they do not always see as far as that. But when they do, still
they do not care. Since the law of time is what it is, and since the end
must come, it is just as well that they should draw all the profit they
possibly can from the process that is, anyhow, sooner or later, to bring
about the end.
Since no one can re-create the primeval, lost paradise-no one but the wheel
of time itself, after it has rolled its full course-then it is just as well
that they, who can completely forget the distant vision, or who never had a
glimpse of its dying glow; they, who can stifle in themselves the age old
yearning for perfection, or rather, who never experienced it; it is just as
well that they, I say, should squeeze out of the fleeing moment (whether
minutes or years, it matters little) all the intense, immediate enjoyment
they can, until the hour comes when they must die. It is just as well that
they should leave their stamp upon the world, force generations to remember
them, until the hour comes for the world to die. So they feel.
It makes little difference what suffering they might cause to men or other
living creatures, by acting as they do. Both men and creatures are bound to
suffer, anyhow. Just as well through them as through others, if that can
forward the aims of these people. The aims of these people-of men within
time, par excellence-are always selfish aims, even when, owing to their
material magnitude and historical importance, they transcend immeasurably
any one man's life, as they actually do, sometimes. For selfishness-the
claim of the part to more place and to more meaning than is naturally
allotted to it within the whole-is the very root of disintegration.
-Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun.
Columnist Charlie Reese has also recognized that the end of cheap oil will
also be the end of modern civilization.
http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040303/index.php
Jerry Abbott
Sepp
I guess it doesn't matter to me,in 30 years or less I'll be in the other
world.
Sepp
Dirk
All of this is common sense and fully verifiable. The most unfortunate thing to
me is that so many don't have the brains to realize and most of those who do
understand either don't give a shit or are too discouraged to do anything.
There is a way out of this but it would take intelligence and courage both of
which seem to be in very short supply in today's internet age of "let's talk
about it and do piss all!".
Our children, most of whom won't be as bright as our own generation of mindless
cattle, will despise our memory for letting it happen. And they'll be right!
Shemp
<thro...@yeayea.com> wrote:
>http://www.jabpage.org/posts/apocalypse.html
>
>In the early 20th century, Adolf Hitler and Germany offered the world a
>philosophy and a way of living that was probably the single hope for
>Mankind's effective surmounting of the disaster that is now nearly upon us.
>Hitler's ideas were arrogantly and viciously rejected. But National
>Socialism was the right way to live: in intelligent accord with nature. By
>refusing it, humanity incurred a penalty, and payment will soon be enforced
>by the laws of nature.
>
It is completely true that Adolf Hitler and National Socialism
preached the ideal of returning to a simpler way of life. The push for
libersaurm was a push to aquire more areable soil for Germany's
farmers and the "VOLK". The regime was anti-modern and yearned for the
romantic days of Germany's past. The treaty of Versalles was a bitter
pill to swallow. The masses in Germany in the late 20's were yearning
for a strong leader and Adolf Hitler was the man for the times. There
was as well a lot horribly wrong with the regime, it's yes men and its
attitude to basic human rights
That being said, what lessons could we learn from that regime that may
play a part in our future here, as well as in other parts of the
world?
Germany was intensely nationalistic probably more so at its peak in
1940 than any other country in modern history. The intellectual
classes were discouraged and the common peasant was exaulted.
Blood and Soil was the motto. There were strict rules for society
but those who played by the rules were rewarded. It was a totalitarian
regime.
Look at this country
We have our freedoms...but in the late 20th century they have been
taken to extremes...aided by the lawyers. You cant fart without
someone wanting to sue you over it.
You buy a cup of coffee and spill it in your lap, OK, sue someone over
it. You're Gay and want to marry your lover and raise a family...sure
go ahead it's your "right".
BULLSHIT
We all know that the founding fathers of our country never intended it
to work out this way. They'd roll in their graves if they knew.
In the nazi regime none of the above would have ever had a chance of
happening. The queers would have been taken out and shot.
(remember the Rhom Putsch?)
I love our country and my Father fought in WWII as did my uncles and
father in law. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what't
wrong with us. Everything here is taken to exterme.
Booze, sex, violence, drugs, wasting natural resources. Everything we
do or have is looked on as being our "right" without ever earning it
and we have an army of lawyers standing by to back it up.
WE NEED A STRONG LEADER TO SOMEHOW CUT THROUGH
SOME OF THIS BULLSHIT.
It'll never happen. The masses are narcotized from TV and Jerry
Springer. They don't have a clue. The average person never even THINKS
about how our society is on the rapid decline of its life cycle. They
just want more NFL and hot wings.
As usual, there will be a handfull of people who realize what's
happening in time to prepare themselves for any eventuallity.
They are the ones who don't watch the movie but instead peer inside
the projectionist's booth to see how the theater REALLY works.
"I told you so's" won't matter at this point. Death of cheap energy
and our house of cards called "the economy" will come crashing down on
their heads so fast they will have only one instinct left. To run, to
hide, to steal, to riot.
I wish this all wern't so true. I'd rather know that we HAD protected
some of this weath for our children and their children. We didn't.
We were too busy worrying what was on channel 9 at 8 pm
or who is screwing who at work...or if we could afford that new car or
boat...the list goes on and on.
We suck.
Get Lenni Reifenstall's "Triumph of the Will" if you want to catch a
glimpse of Nazi Germany at its peak.
If you want to see how bad the oil situation is THIS YEAR go here.
http://www.worldoil.com//MAGAZINE/MAGAZINE_DETAIL.asp?ART_ID=2205
May God...if there is a GOD help us all.
Shemp