Reply #61: "Priveleged" in this sense is difficult to describe or quantify for [View All]

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two very simple reasons: 1) I do well in my use of grammar and vocabulary - for someone who's worked on large commercial construction sites for 25 years. But I could use a little more work in the vocabulary area. And, 2) Considering reason #1, it's the only word I could come up with (for a single post among the 30 or so posts I made last night) a word that sufficiently conveyed my feeling about being part of this epochal change in the human condition. You have to ask yourself "surely he did not mean it in that context?" while extending the benefit of doubt.

It's not that I'm going to enjoy starving and shooting at people who get within 100 yards of me and my family in our bugout bunker. It's not about the BILLIONS who are sure to die as a result of energy depletion's acidic decomposure of the fabric of world civilization. It's not that I accept full responsibility for what I, and the rest of my fellow humans, have done to the planet, and as such, to help cause the hunger and tragedy that is now playing out across the globe and which will get worse.

It's not about the pain we all are sure to endure or to succumb to.

It's about my children. All children.

This planet is in overshoot. I've accepted that what will happen must happen if our children are to carry on the human race. Nature will win. And it will bring itself back into balance. In the process, alot of people are going to perish. In the meantime, and for as long as we survive it, I will take it all in as human life is so short that rarely does one witness such epochal events. As Glider said above, for those who adapt, there will be good things that come as a result of this correction. My job and yours is to make it to the other side alive. It's about survival.

No more lectures from me, too, neighbor. Fact is, rather than get our knickers in a twist, I'd rather join you and Glider for one of these: :beer:

And, I humbly accept your apology. :)