What the Hell is Wrong With My Generation

From a chat with my best friend, who is almost 29, and without a relationship by choice and habit. It's not that she couldn't get a boyfriend, just that... let her explain.

K: I'm just more uninterested than I am interested, it's not really an issue

Mel: didn't think it was

K: :P

Mel: if I'd watched me be such an idiot I'd be cautious and picky too

K: it doesn't have much to do with your history

Mel: I know

Mel: personal preference is what it is

K: plus people have been pussies lately and I'd rather have a dick lol

And that's the problem with being a 20-something heterosexual female right there...

As an aside, this book was released today:

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks


Mel

Eventually, with enough belaboring of the obvious...

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Maybe some of these people will understand, there is NO way to "get off oil" in the short term. At best we can reduce our INDIVIDUAL oil usage per capita.

Which in fact we have done, dramatically, over the years; primarily through more fuel efficient vehicles, more electrically efficient homes and appliances, more thermally efficient homes, and better coal fired electrical power plants.

Unfortunately, that's all been more offset by increased industrial use, use by the transportation industry in particular, increased use of other petroleum derived chemicals (plastics primarily), and by massive increases in population worldwide.

Oh and by the fact that we haven't been able to build a nuclear power plan in this country in over 30 years.

A couple of sad truths

A few weeks ago, Larry The Bastidge asked me in passing:

"Why do so many advocates of freedom and liberty insist on shooting themselves in the foot so often"

My response was:

"An unfortunate number of liberty oriented people are that way; not because freedom is the best way; but simply because they are horses asses, misanthropes, insane, or contrarian."

I was pleased with the profundity of the statement; I thought it both amusing and accurate. Then, I was relating this conversation to Kommander tonight, and he completely blew me away with:

"how bad do things have to be, when it's the contrarians who are advocating liberty..."

Indeed.