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roel on August 30, 2006 - 11:13am

Wait a few years, and you'll have your modern day Steinbeck. Faulkner comes to mind. Nothing spawns good inspired stories as well as misery does. See, it iIS good for something. Link it to Leanan's posting on dying drying farmers and we're talking Nobel material.

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dinopello on August 30, 2006 - 11:20am

Good music also is born of misery. Something else to look forward to :(

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ggg71 on August 30, 2006 - 11:47am

The world of Boxing will probably make a comeback as well.

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tandersonbrown on August 30, 2006 - 12:03pm

I can see all kinds of outlawed entertainment coming back with a vengeance. Cock fighting comes to mind.

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ggg71 on August 30, 2006 - 12:35pm

Well with less oil there will be a lot less policing by the government. At least at the federal level.

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fleam on August 30, 2006 - 11:28pm

Um, cock fighting never went away..... illegal sure but so's tearing that tag off of your mattress.

There's all kinds of stuff going on, ways of life, etc that are hidden from the owning and chattering classes but are part of reality for the dreaded underclass. Growing up, I sometimes wondered if we'd landed in the 1970s or the 1930s.

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tandersonbrown on August 31, 2006 - 8:55am

Hey Fleam,
I know cock fighting happens. I just meant that we would be watching cock fights in people's front yards instead of in the basement of some tenament building in Tijuana.

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totoneila on August 30, 2006 - 1:53pm

Hello Dinopello,

Excellent Point!

I don't have satellite radio like Sirius, so I don't know if they already have a "Peak Channel". But they ought to have one while they still can.

Is there an WWWeb radio station that specializes in the "Songs & Poetry of Doom"? I think a economically viable market for this exists--might be a good way to hammer into the reptilian-brain level of those who are text-averse to actually studying Peak Everything. Could help many to conserve and push for political reform.

The revenue would come from advertisers like booze, guns & ammo, painkiller & sleeping pills, bicycle mfg, etc. The playlist could be interspersed with snippets of dire news, or interviews with experts to help further juice the advertisers' sales. The playlist would feature the songs and the audible reading of poetry that is often posted here on TOD.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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DelusionaL on August 30, 2006 - 10:32pm

Morbidly funny there Robert...

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