Ying Min,
Interesting post, it is helpful when people closely relate and further expand what we discuss in class. I was most interested on this idea about how adaptability and survival rate in the post peak world you think will most likely be directly related to generation. “I would think the older generation would be more patient with heat, more fused with nature (flexible with the resources at hand and smart in utilizing them, as in the leave-toilet paper example), more frugal because of the hard times they have been through.” I like that you were honest when you said “As for me, even though I am made more aware of the Peak Oil situation and recently oil prices, I still prefer riding in a car over taking the subway. No other reason than comfort and convenience over energy efficient transportation.” Since this is true for most people and more importantly most people in our class. The train is not as drastic as it gets either; did you notice the disturbing military machinery made for high class occasions hummer/ SUV limos on prom night? Why do you think that with all of the new insights gained in and outside of social science class, we still aren’t making drastic changed in the way we live? I think it has a lot to do with the larger problem of our mentality(as I know you discuss in this blog post), I mean to say the idea of referencing or being put down by the uninformed as far as peak-oil and civilizations core anti- life nature(no pun intended). For example I have wanted to go out and buy eight gallons of water (two per person in my house hold) ever since we have started to think about immediate personal preparation responses to our predictions in class. However since I only know a few people who have taken this measure I feel insane actually going through with it. In addition when I mentioned it to my family they thought I was just too paranoid and obsessed with peak-oil and its implications.
“Skills we might have, but whether they are pragmatic for survival largely depends on our location…Our ability to be flexible really depends on how flexible our environment allows us to be.” This is also a good point basically the urban poor will be the worst off in a post peak world; the poor farmers and villagers have their land to grow food- in a post peak situation it would be even more nonsensical to determine wealth by material possessions.
Ying Min,
I enjoyed this style of writing, which consists of asking many questions and not answering all of them. Just by the way that you ask the question and its contents with in a specific context is enough to clearly imply which ever point you would like to make. This writing style is actually more academically honest than most other arrogant styles are. It is reasonable and expected that most people don’t know most things. Even when you have spent a lot of time, were very interested and put in a lot of brain power in an attempt to reach a valuable insight- often time you can only infer but never say definitively. This is a worthwhile thought, that there might not be an absolute answer. I agree in a social context with your statement which tries to explain why some rocks are worth more in value than others. “The value of things is determined by the market, which is determined by the people, who unconsciously build a consensus on the price label on products through trade.”
“…how did the base, the very primary producer, determine the cost of its product, which very likely is taken from the Earth for free[?]” This is an interesting thought, if you spend sometime thinking about it. We read a lot of words and when they don’t strike us as deep or insightful the first time we mindlessly read them, the thought is dismissed. However, I took sometime to try and understand your confusion with “Value” and why is it such a complex idea. This made your words much more thought advocate and meaningful, to me at least.
- Nina Jankovic
Interesting post, it is helpful when people closely relate and further expand what we discuss in class. I was most interested on this idea about how adaptability and survival rate in the post peak world you think will most likely be directly related to generation. “I would think the older generation would be more patient with heat, more fused with nature (flexible with the resources at hand and smart in utilizing them, as in the leave-toilet paper example), more frugal because of the hard times they have been through.” I like that you were honest when you said “As for me, even though I am made more aware of the Peak Oil situation and recently oil prices, I still prefer riding in a car over taking the subway. No other reason than comfort and convenience over energy efficient transportation.” Since this is true for most people and more importantly most people in our class. The train is not as drastic as it gets either; did you notice the disturbing military machinery made for high class occasions hummer/ SUV limos on prom night? Why do you think that with all of the new insights gained in and outside of social science class, we still aren’t making drastic changed in the way we live? I think it has a lot to do with the larger problem of our mentality(as I know you discuss in this blog post), I mean to say the idea of referencing or being put down by the uninformed as far as peak-oil and civilizations core anti- life nature(no pun intended). For example I have wanted to go out and buy eight gallons of water (two per person in my house hold) ever since we have started to think about immediate personal preparation responses to our predictions in class. However since I only know a few people who have taken this measure I feel insane actually going through with it. In addition when I mentioned it to my family they thought I was just too paranoid and obsessed with peak-oil and its implications.
“Skills we might have, but whether they are pragmatic for survival largely depends on our location…Our ability to be flexible really depends on how flexible our environment allows us to be.” This is also a good point basically the urban poor will be the worst off in a post peak world; the poor farmers and villagers have their land to grow food- in a post peak situation it would be even more nonsensical to determine wealth by material possessions.
Ying Min,
I enjoyed this style of writing, which consists of asking many questions and not answering all of them. Just by the way that you ask the question and its contents with in a specific context is enough to clearly imply which ever point you would like to make. This writing style is actually more academically honest than most other arrogant styles are. It is reasonable and expected that most people don’t know most things. Even when you have spent a lot of time, were very interested and put in a lot of brain power in an attempt to reach a valuable insight- often time you can only infer but never say definitively. This is a worthwhile thought, that there might not be an absolute answer. I agree in a social context with your statement which tries to explain why some rocks are worth more in value than others. “The value of things is determined by the market, which is determined by the people, who unconsciously build a consensus on the price label on products through trade.”
“…how did the base, the very primary producer, determine the cost of its product, which very likely is taken from the Earth for free[?]” This is an interesting thought, if you spend sometime thinking about it. We read a lot of words and when they don’t strike us as deep or insightful the first time we mindlessly read them, the thought is dismissed. However, I took sometime to try and understand your confusion with “Value” and why is it such a complex idea. This made your words much more thought advocate and meaningful, to me at least.
- Nina Jankovic
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