William Wixon wrote:
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:58:08 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
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Maybe. But there's always a chance that the human race will wise up and
realize it's just about useless for almost anything that matters at
that
point. d8-)

Ding!

We have a winner - and it's Ed (again).

If we let the lights go out, NOTHING is going to matter.

Game it out, Ed.

How far back would er fall?

National anarchy?
Return to sovereign states?
Return to rural subsistence?
Nomadic hunter gatherers?

Or would rampant diseases knock us back to the stone age?
My best guess, and I mean this seriously, is that we'll revert to mowing
our
own lawns and to buying our Halloween candy at Wal-Mart.

Otherwise, we might stop buying Mobil 1 and get back to basics with
Pennzoil.

Seriously.
Yup. A few of the other things that people will learn to live without:
bottled water, vehicles with 2000 lbs of trinkets and dead weight, $75
a month TV and $100 cell service, limos for high school graduations,
fast food and walking around with a gallon cup of soda or coffee, $20k
funerals and $50k weddings, Tshirts to advertise favorite brand names,
tanning parlors, pet psychiatrists, body art, salad shooters, cosmetic
surgery, knee MRIs for the morbidly obese, leaf blowers, magnetic
insoles, electric scent dispensers, life coaches... I could go on all
day. Obviously most people don't need to go back to stone age living
to balance their budgets. Just back to 1960 or so. :-)

Wayne


i laughed out loud at "..1960..". i've been saying for a while i wish we
could turn back the clock to 1965. we don't need all this bull**** to be
happy, there were happy people in 1965.

b.w.



There are happy people not too, William!