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-14 below and nowhere to go
Feb. 18th, 2006 07:36 amSo, it's -14, and despite keeping my heat up, the cabinets open, and a turning on a slow drip before I went to bed, my water is frozen again.
Grrrr! It never happened before I came back from NY. I think our heat tape is dead. But a thaw isn't expected until Monday, so I need to go get some water.
Just so you know, when the singularity comes and we're all left living like peasants, I'm marrying the guy who can dig me a well, build me a pump, and deliver my water. It is HEAVY! (And we all know who'll end up carrying water, unless there are some serious changes in our social power structure.)
Which leads me to the following questions:
* Are we headed towards some sort of massive social/ environtmental change? (Whether singularity, apocalypse, the depletion of natural resources, fall of the Roman Empire, etc.)
* Do you think things are getting better are worse, generally speaking, in the world?
* Theoretically, how do you see the world reorganizing itself if there were some kind of major event?
I'm asking because I am surrounded by people who are on either side of the divide. There are the gloomy prophets (like my father, who should've been named Amos or Jeremiah, instead of David) and there are the back-to-eden people, (mostly former hippies) who are convinced that my generation, and the generation that follows are bringing our gifts to humanity to change the world in a major way.
I prefer the second, but believe that in the long run things don't really change. There was not golden age, and there never will be one. We can only work to make our small part of the world, with our limited understanding, better.
So, cataclysm or erosion?
Grrrr! It never happened before I came back from NY. I think our heat tape is dead. But a thaw isn't expected until Monday, so I need to go get some water.
Just so you know, when the singularity comes and we're all left living like peasants, I'm marrying the guy who can dig me a well, build me a pump, and deliver my water. It is HEAVY! (And we all know who'll end up carrying water, unless there are some serious changes in our social power structure.)
Which leads me to the following questions:
* Are we headed towards some sort of massive social/ environtmental change? (Whether singularity, apocalypse, the depletion of natural resources, fall of the Roman Empire, etc.)
* Do you think things are getting better are worse, generally speaking, in the world?
* Theoretically, how do you see the world reorganizing itself if there were some kind of major event?
I'm asking because I am surrounded by people who are on either side of the divide. There are the gloomy prophets (like my father, who should've been named Amos or Jeremiah, instead of David) and there are the back-to-eden people, (mostly former hippies) who are convinced that my generation, and the generation that follows are bringing our gifts to humanity to change the world in a major way.
I prefer the second, but believe that in the long run things don't really change. There was not golden age, and there never will be one. We can only work to make our small part of the world, with our limited understanding, better.
So, cataclysm or erosion?
