Three phrases to contemplate

Here are three essential phrases to contemplate (and hopefully come to accept):

1. "Food. Shelter. Transportation. Security." [Dmitry Orlov, when summarizing essential needs, in his blog post, "Social Collapse, Best Practices," February 19, 2009, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html.]

2. "There is no brighter future ahead." [John Michael Greer, in offering a counterspell against incantatory thinking that prevents people from seeing the future; postulated at the end of his blog post, "Waiting for the Millennium; Part One: Peak Oil Goes Mainstream," June 9, 2010, http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/waiting-for-millennium.html]

3. "No technology or product, regardless of how "good" or desirable it may seem, can be guaranteed to be there tomorrow." [Me, summarizing John Michael Greer and his views in response to blog commentors who insist that "good" things, such as the internet or medicine, will be preserved or still there after oil.]