Michael C. Ruppert

Subject of 2009 documentary film "Collapse"


Impression: looks from this like he is a major league kook or crank

About documentary I viewed on Netflix:


A lot of it is what I am writing here.  He presents a comprehensive view of an impending collapse.  That contrasts with my own point of view in which I am stressing solutions to problems as opposed to actually wringing one's hands in despair over them.


Most of what I write about is "how do we get out of this mess".  He compares today's society with the passengers on the Titanic and their reactions to a catastrophe.  He says there are three kinds of people: 1) those who try to deal with the situation 2) those who recognize the problem, but do nothing, but only frequent the bars and get drunk and 3)those who refuse to recognize the problem and believe the "Titanic is unsinkable".

Most people today seem to be of the third type the Titanic is unsinkable.  Catastrophe can't or won't happen. 

I am of the type that says let's build some lifeboats.

This does not mean that I endorse this film or agree with everything in it but it does seem to coincide in many ways the views I've expressed here.

Why do you suppose this blog has not gotten popular? Is it because most people are incapable of facing the truth?  No matter what you say, they are not going to listen.  They think I'm wrong, but it is they who are wrong. 

So, why should I worry about them.  They are going to die if they don't wake the eff up.  If they won't wake up, that's too effing bad for them.

Here is another observation about this film.  He seems to belong to the political class that likes to call itself "progressive". Well, I have a pretty dim view of so called progressives.  One thing you don't do if you have an energy problem is to block access to the only energy we have.  Until alternatives are available, blocking access to energy is just plain nuts.

No matter which way you turn, these guys don't want energy that actually works.  They want solar and wind, which can best be only a tiny part of a solution.  No nuclear, no coal, no oil.  Even though they will end up getting people killed because of this, they seem to believe this is the way to go.

Actually, I think the progressives are more like the bunch that wants to hang out in the bars, get drunk, and wait to die.

The conservatives are the ones who don't believe the ship can sink.  According to this view, all we have to do is to believe in the system, and everything will be fine.  Here's a clue to what I think:  I don't believe in systems as ends in themselves.  There is no substitute for the ability to reason.  Systems don't reason, people do.  If people believe too much in a system, it is because they are too mentally lazy to deal with the problems.

I think our politicians are failing us because they are too much into systems and refuse to think.

Here's something that will probably turn people off.  It is about religions:

View about religions:  religion is that point where the
rational mind shuts down and becomes, for the want of a
better term: stupid.   People become stupid when they
stop looking for truth.  Religion claims to be the whole
truth and one need not look any further for it.  But that
is where religion fails.  Religion succeeds when it provides
a shelter against the unknown and at the time, unknowable,
but it also becomes a barrier against the finding the
unknown and stretching the limits of human reasoning.

That's where we are with our politics.  A belief in systems as opposed to using your own mind to deal with reality as it is.  This failure is what will lead to an unhappy end unless enough people wake the eff up.


Update:


This Ruppert fellow seems to follow Law of Scarcity  which I wrote about before.  I would pose the following Law of Abundance, which sit in direct contradiction to the Law of Scarcity.  The Law of Abundance says that there's another way to resolve differences over the what appears to be in short supply.  That is by working together to produce abundance for all, there is no need to destroy others in order to have more for yourself.  There exists enough in the universe for everyone.