[matbrady]

I can’t help but be a fan of George Monbiot because of his exceptional book Age of Consent that argues for a people’s world parliament. Brilliant stuff. I’ve admired his writing for years after, so when he declared Peak Oil was over I was confused, certainly enough to post his article on peakprosperity.com for their response, and they wisely directed me to TAE. Thank you for your clarity, Stoneleigh, and thank you in particular to billhartree for pointing out what George missed. Incredible.

As intelligent and focussed as the debate is, however, I can’t help but side with the comment from SteveB. I too believe that the real problem is that the matrix of our money system is actually working against us. As Marshall McLuhan once wrote: “We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us”. I will probably be derided for even bringing up this meta-issue, but our money system really does need to be superseded in order for us to survive and evolve to something new. We seem to be all caught in money’s mass-psychopathological catch-22…

To quote The Matrix: “What if you were unable to wake from [a] dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” The trouble is that even if you are aware of that difference (and can separate the matrix of money from the real and natural world) but are still unable to wake from it, the rules of the dream world apply regardless. I hope it doesn’t need to end like in the movie Abre Los Ojos. 🙁

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