Back to the Ancient Future by Joe Bageant

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Back to the Ancient Future
Chewing Raw Grubs with the “Nutcracker Man”
by Joe Bageant
April 29, 2005

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Global die-off of mankind will occur when we run out of energy to support the complex technological grid sustaining modern industrial human civilization. In other words, when the electricity goes out, we are back in the Dark Age, with the Stone Age grunting at us from just around the corner. This will likely happen in 100 years or less, assuming the ecosystem does not collapse first. And you are thinking, “Well ho ho ho! Any other good news Bageant? And how the fock do you know this anyway?”

For those willing to contemplate the subject, there is a scientifically supported model of the timeline of our return to Stone Age tribal units. A roadmap to the day when we will be cutting up dog meat with a sharpened cd rom disc in some toxic future canyon. It is called the Olduvai Theory....read the rest at: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Bageant0429.htm

[Maple]

1. That is disgusting

Not to mention ridiculous.

I simply don't understand this Luddite longing for a return to the Dark Ages or earlier stages.

And longing for it runs all through these absurd 'articles'.

[Maple]

2. Welcome to DU btw

:D

Glad to have you aboard!

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3. Thanks Maple

Thanks, nice to be here ;-)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. But hey..... who gives a dam about what they are

doing in India (Enron was there too), speaking of dams.... look at the displacement of the millions, spawned by the greed of a few, corrupted by a couple of "foreign to them" corporations, pretty sad if you are one of the millions who used to live in one of those "pretoxic canyons" and supported yourself and your family in an agrarian manner. GE, Enron, who knows how many others... perhaps some of them actually hate us for our greedom.

http://www.irn.org/programs/india/


Throughout South Asia, dams have been the source of heated controversy. Despite investments of tens of billions of dollars, dams have rarely met their expected benefits of irrigation, power generation and flood control. Instead, they have displaced millions of people, destroyed forests and decimated fisheries. In response, massive popular opposition has grown to become a force to be reckoned with.

IRN works to strengthen the network of people fighting destructive dam construction in South Asia and has helped establish the South Asia office of the International Committee on Dams, Rivers and People.

Dam building in India

With 4,300 dams in place, India is one of the world’s major dam building countries. According to estimates, large dams have submerged a land area of about 37,500 square kilometers and have displaced at least 42 million people in India.<< more



"For over half a century we’ve believed that Big Dams would deliver the people of India from hunger and poverty. The opposite has happened."

– Arundhati Roy

[Wiley50]

5. Another Truly Excellent Bageant Piece!

He has my vote for Greatest Living American Essayist

We have sober serious writers who are great

and then We have the Humorists, like Will Rogers

like Mark Twain,

Like Joe Bageant

and I feel like the Humorists make much more headway

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