Re: total war awe

Yes.

I would not call it total war.

Mark Garneau, a Canadian cosmonaut, witnessed this from above. Vast reaches
of the terrestrial earth ablaze: Amazon, southeast Asia, etc.

chao

John


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From: "michaelP" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:56 AM
Subject: total war awe


> James quoting Malcom:
>
> >> I personally think peak oil can't come soon enough as we need to move
> >> on from the age of oil to something else as soon as possible.
> >> Unfortunately peak oil also means the collapse of the developed world's
> >> national wealth as its economies go into decline and its militaries and
> >> industry are given over to war in order to secure the energy they need
> >> to keep 'business as usual' going for as long as possible. We seem to
> >> be heading for a gigantic train wreck, the crash of modern industrial
> >> civilisation, and the world's sole super power is leading the charge
> >> with neoconservative extremists preaching the benefits of sustained,
> >> global total war.
>
> James, John, Malcom: we don't really need the bushmen and neo-con-artists
to
> declare total war, since the wholesale desertification of the earth by
> 'normal' business (the total using up of every being in the cycles of
> production, consumption and distribution: gestell) has long long since
been
> total war (world war III & IV). If we could see that the real terror comes
> from this implacable phenomenon and not especially from the so-called
> terrorists (of either persuasion, islamist or neocon); to not see this is
> errorism indeed...
>
> regards
>
> michaelP
>
>
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