Three Types of Doomers and Fantasy Collapse

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In previous entries, I poked fun at Panglossians, the merry among us who are content to spin yarns about the magic of technology and pontificate about human ingenuity as the key to saving us all. I’ve engaged in an angry rant about those espousing the “power of positive thinking” in solving the Earth’s serious problems. It is now time for me to turn my attention back to my own world view, and more closely examine the payoffs and foibles of viewing the world through a “Doomer” perspective.

Politically savvy Carolyn Baker* insists: “Don’t call me a Doomer!” Chris Martenson, who brilliantly explains in video clips how we got to where we are, prefers the phrase “serious survivalist.” Zachary Nowak is also uncomfortable with the label, but nonetheless believes that it is prudent to err on the side of being overly grim, than being overly optimistic.

I, myself, am affectionately attached to the label, and I suppose, as the pejorative “Dike!” hurled at lesbians, has been reclaimed for use within the lesbian community (dyke), I’ve adopted “Doomer” as a descriptive label among my friends. When it is used by “the other” as an insult, it is usually followed by the chestnut: “Don’t talk about ‘doom and gloom.’” I use it here in the descriptive, not pejorative sense.

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[bananas]

1. Lesbians like straight men

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x42081

Do doomers like panglossian men?

[hendo]

2. and here I thought the only usage of dike was

"and the little boy put his finger in the dike".

the pejoritive usage has always been spelled "dyke". with an "i" as in dike it means a dam, preferably a dam in Holland.

edit: although, now that you mention it, that gives the above saying a whole new meaning.
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