How many people here want a country of low energy, low tech farms?

[marasinghe]

332. you kind of had me ....

until you spouted the standard low-info nonsense, of conflating communism & socialism with authoritarianism & tyranny. it's just a step short of conflating the Nazis with socialism, 'cos they called themselves the National Socialist party.

in passing, i spent a fair amount of my youth among small-scale rice farmers, agrarian villagers, and suchlike denizens of the 'dark ages', back in my native Asian country. a fair bunch of them were happier, more content, healthier & had more fun, than many of the canned air-conditioned, sealed office & apartment building denizens i now hang with. let's not generalize about others, with insufficient evidence.

on a side note, about a month back, i read an article on the web - which stated the the USA consumes 75% of the global energy used on air-conditioning. the USA still consumes roughly one-third of global energy consumption. and then it has the arrogance to attack countries like China & India, for going the fossil fuel route. any collapse of the grid - which i believe is inevitable - can logically be placed right at the door of the US lifestyle. the death & destruction of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, & millions of Southeast Asians, South Americans and other nationalities, the possible destruction of Iran, etc., are linked at the hip - with the maintenance of Western society's grid.

i'd say, better start getting accustomed to 3rd world lifestyles.