Matt Savinar’s post covers a number of interesting points.
The fact is the true Peak Oil meme, which boils down to various ways of saying “we’re going to have to get by with a whole lot less in the future”, is never going to go mainstream. Not in a society where virtually everybody alive today had their brain’s software programmed at a time where the present was always more wealth-filled and energy-rich than the past. For all of us 65 years and younger, the actual neural wiring of our brains was shaped at a time where energy was becoming constantly more abundant. Most of us simply don’t have the brain hardware necessary to understand the software program of “less wealth and technology in the future than the present.”
