Random irrelevant thought.
Provisioning, laying aside food or other value toward the future, must be in the genes. Protists and plants and insects do it automatically. Birds and mammals do it in a more intelligent way.
Finding that Yes, I’ve Got Enough After All gives tremendous pleasure, and this happy event occurs often in dreams. Like other pleasures, this is also part of the design, helping to train us toward storage.
Along with debt and JIT, modern monsters have gradually eliminated all provisionable and storable energy. Wood is good but coal is best. Coal was replaced by oil, which can be stored but tends to freeze. Oil was replaced by gas, which is stored in the center but not in the houses. Gas is being forcibly replaced by electricity, which can’t be stored at all**.
Demons hate provisioning at all levels, from coal to food to money to energy to culture to skills. Absolutely everything in life must be purely transitory, purely dependent on the whims and impulses of psychopaths.
One of PGE’s bankruptcies happened in 2001, as a result of “drought that decreased hydroelectric output.”
No. Southern California is ALWAYS in a drought, some years worse than others. When your CONSTANT CONDITION is low rainfall, you need to add ENOUGH reservoir capacity to keep your generators going.
PGE failed to do that. They chose Gaian craziness over civilization. Instead of building more dams, they REMOVED some of the existing dams, pretending to replace the input with wind and solar.
Wind and solar CANNOT power civilization because they aren’t steady. Wind is actually COUNTER-steady. Wind is weakest exactly when you NEED extra electricity.
Civilization requires steady and reliable power sources.
I’ve made this point before. Storage is the heart of civilization.
When you have a steady supply of power and material and labor, you can start building a SURPLUS of value. A good season can be stored to get you through a bad season. Grain elevators, oil storage tanks, dams, savings accounts.
Civilization is built on a reliable SURPLUS of value. The SURPLUS can be used to build new farms and factories, and to build better and more beautiful cities and parks and schools. Without the SURPLUS, civilization collapses.
When you’re constantly behind the curve, living hand to mouth or deep in debt, every slight perturbation kills you.
Western debtism guarantees that the whole system is constantly on the negative side of the ledger, constantly relying on bankers to supply loans or the central bank to print money. Just-in-time inventory, wind and solar “power”, zero interest on savings, arbitrage instead of grain storage. Civilization is impossible, and independent decisions are impossible. NYC controls everything.
Sharia and Soviet systems are firmly planted on the SURPLUS side, with government taking part of the surplus to fund its operations. Monopolizing the surplus is prohibited. In Sharia the prohibition is cultural and legal; in Soviet the stock traders simply don’t exist so they can’t slaughter the world.
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In 2019 I recognized that stock traders want to slaughter the world, but I still wasn’t prepared when they actually did slaughter the world in 2020.
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** Partial exception to can’t be stored at all. Where it’s geographically possible, power companies use hydro dams to store potential energy, including small reservoirs for pumped storage. Gaian genocide requires us to bomb all dams, but the bombing hasn’t been complete and seems to have lost momentum in recent years.
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Just a few hours later: As usual I spoke too soon. Four hydro dams on the Klamath River will be bombed into oblivion this year for the usual insane genocidal reasons.
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