> Zeitgeist II
> Capitalism is the Crisis
> The Pyramid Code
And a bunch of other pseudoscientific conspiracy bullshit
I see this tendency with all documentary collections, subreddits, playlists etc - somehow people love to see made up shit
Oh, turns out that is on YouTube. I watched bits of that in my econ classes, might be useful to watch it again now that I've concluded much of what I was taught was in fact bunk.
If not here, then elsewhere. Hrm ...
I've got a sort of bloggy subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius How about a new post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1v052g/what_we_...
Though I've been leaning toward "The Best of All Possible Worlds". You've got to think about that one a bit.
I think his history's pretty solid. His projections are where things start to fall apart, and in several of his predictions he's clearly jumped the gun (but then: prediction is hard, especially about the future). He's in pretty good company there. My own sense is that a collapse is likely to take rather longer, though it's also likely to be highly nonlinear -- things can limp along for a quite a while before suddenly falling to pieces.
And while not inevitable, I fail to see how a highly complex technological civilization predicated on massive energy flows and high levels of stability can survive the curtailment of both. I also suspect 2007 was a lot dicier than many people realize.