Just a short comment. Peak Oilers used to argue back in the 00’s and early 10’s oil would become too expensive to extract for us to keep using it. This made sense and seemed to be reflected in high prices. But then as prices collapsed again, their narrative became the economy was just no longer able to sustain the high prices necessary to extract the oil.
And I would accept this narrative, if there were some actual signs of it, like, you know, a decline in the use of oil. There are of course no such signs. The system happily began to add synthetic crude, shale oil and all sorts of other unconventional stuff to the pile of regular oil that it consumes. There’s also no signs of this changing anytime soon. As the Arctic now melts, new oil will be available for extraction.
But the best evidence that Peak Oil was a total nothingburger, a non-event, is the simple fact that Americans today continue to buy and drive around in SUV’s. In fact, cars in Europe are growing bigger now too. If there’s anything symbolic of a society having more oil available than it knows what to do with, it is the SUV. It’s not the occasional millionaire either, it’s the regular guy in the street who drives around in these gas guzzlers, in 2025, when we were supposed to be well into the decline of oil.
The main thing we were promised, that peak oil would save us from climate change, turned out to be wrong. Nothing ever happened.
Now you might wonder, isn’t this whole mRNA COVID vaccine culminating in a nothingburger in the end too? There hasn’t been an apocalypse, but I don’t think it’s a nothingburger. Anywhere around 5%-25 of the population now has long COVID. People suffered brain damage. There is clear evidence now that the vaccines set people up for constant reinfections. The mortality figures in Japan reached a sudden new record spike this winter. It’s a slow process, but something is happening. It remains to be seen whether this becomes the big problem, or whether it becomes a background problem like peak oil turned out to be.
In general it’s probably best not to pay too much attention to end-of-the-world prophecies. As humans, we have a death drive, a tendency to seek out death. It seems particularly a masculine phenomenon. Men, particularly the low status ones, want something big and external to happen, something that forces meaning upon their lives. When the first world war erupted, young men in Europe broke out in celebration. Something finally happened.
The Internet has a habit of further amplifying the apocalyptic rhetoric, because we’re all drowning in information. That’s why it’s important to really restrict your use, which I’m now trying. I read more books lately and spend less time online. In general my recommendation would be to try to accept the world more as it is, rather than hoping for it to change itself. As things are, is what we will have to deal with.
Happy Easter.
well, you already know that the current world is too ugly, too dark to accept…
Happy Easter to you too.
> Nothing ever happens
U.S. Treasuries are puking, gold at $3,300/oz.
Things are DEFINITELY happening.
When in doubt, listen to what the (((chosen ones))) have to say:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cfdeQe89iyY?&t=10
“Gold to $17,000 Minimum in a Marked to Market Revaluation”
Special shout-out to the “bond market vigilantes” who humiliated Trump (and Liz Truss).
“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
– James Carville
Reading books is useful, because if you read widely then you’ll expand your consciousness by developing empathy for other points of view. It has become clear to me over the years that people who don’t read don’t learn how to think and communicate very well. Garbage in, garbage out. I just finished a biography of Giordano Bruno that was excellent. About to start another.
The world is what it is. What we can most easily change about it is ourselves, and we do that by learning from others who have something valuable to share— like we have here thanks to you and your viral biology insight.
Keep on reading and writing and trying to peel back the next layer as you go. Happy Easter.
“And I would accept this narrative, if there were some actual signs of it, like, you know, a decline in the use of oil. There are of course no such signs.”
There may not have been an absolute oil production/ consumption decline but covid really had a huge effect.
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/LSE_2025_peak-oil_klitgaard_ch1.png
If you extend 2002 through 2020 we are down about 25 million barrels per day from where we would have been if the trend continued. Why electric cars, work from home ??
Rest of article explains that peak oil was wrong, we just have less oil because of peak oil demand.
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/will-peak-demand-roil-global-oil-markets/#:~:text=Some%20leading%20international%20and%20industry,below%20current%20levels%20by%202035.
Also if you drink alcohol your losing similar IQ points.
Yep. We had a peak in demand in oil, because things just got more efficient (see: hybrid electric vehicles).
Greater efficiency should lead to greater consumption – Jevon’s paradox.
And lo, to my eyes anyway, it looks like overall consumption of fossil fuels has increased despite (if not because of) any and all gains in efficiency: https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
However, the best and most affordable oil is gone/going away. The fall has been made up for by increased fracking and so forth, but those wells deplete even faster and the fuel doesn’t have the same qualities – in particular it’s not as good for transport fuels.
Overall though, the loss of affordable oil, especially the stuff with the right kind of qualities for transport fuels, could start to really come home to roost, well, anytime now.
We cannot escape the fact that we live on a finite planet.
But we’re not interested in this at all.
Death denial.
I bought a car around 20 years ago thinking it could see me to the end of the age of the personal motor car – I wouldn’t be surprised if it still made it – it’s a Toyota 🙂
” In general my recommendation would be to try to accept the world more as it is, rather than hoping for it to change itself. As things are, is what we will have to deal with.”
Very wise.
Well said!
Happy Easter
Billions of tonnes of micro-plastics, that will in the fullness of time degrade into nano-plastics, biologically integrating into cell walls, protein structures and lipid cells, will render at first infertile and then extinct all plant and animal life on planet Earth. Globo-homo-warming is the least of the problems – it pales into insignificance when compared with the nano-plastic total extinction event.
Enjoy!
Love, Retard
Plastic Rain:
https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-rain-is-the-new-acid-rain/
Enjoy!
Rintrah’s boogeyman is global warming (and/or covid t-cell exhaustion), yours is pollution, and mine is AI. I think my boogeyman will kill us first, but maybe it helps us evolve into homo plasticus instead—half human, half plastic, and immune from covid, drought, and warmer temperatures. Or maybe we just do the predictable thing and nuke each other.
The important thing is to have a good time when you can, and to work to expand your consciousness to better understand the ALL.
How about the industrial-technological system itself?
All the others like pollution (carbon, plastic, nitrogen, etc.), mass extinctions, land changes, AI, nuclear war, genetic meddling, bioweapons and other high-tech horrors, are downstream of that and more besides:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries
There is a small risk of an asteroid or whatever, but the pace, scale and likelihood of the man-made risks is ramping all the time.
One way or another, or through a combination factors, we are increasingly likely to take ourselves out.
A great deal of ‘something’ is indeed happening and changing – the pace and scale is accelerating all the time – people cannot keep up, it’s beyond human comprehension.
But does knowing about any of this, or thinking about it, do anyone any good? Perhaps it doesn’t. After all, everything dies sooner or later. Death is the fate of all men.
You’re probably right that it’s better to focus on the ALL – aka God.
Dont forget about hormones and residuals of medicine flushed in the toilets. Hormones from the anti baby pill from millions of womens urine isnt clarified and goes in the drinking water. “The frogs turn gay”.
REEEETTAAHHRDD!!!!
https://youtu.be/wRnSnfiUI54?si=Hdte7P1vbxasWgDF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kav7tifmyTg
????????????????☹️????
:sad face:
I don’t want to be retarded!!
(But I probably am)
Btw since we are roughy the same age, do you remember watching this during puberty?
https://youtu.be/Z2LFOV-t9G0?si=CUp7ESDuQjrMte3x
Reminds me of the TED movie.
A cure for nano-plastics eg a scavenging micro-organism, is not beyond the realms of possibility, but they’d better get weaving! The latest I’ve heard are those produced by tyre wear, and that float about on the winds as dust, and those that are interfering with photosynthesis in plants. Not forgeting those that are intefering with clouds, complicating climate destabilisation.
Yes, that may be the thing.
Rintrah, since you are having headaches, you should make sure your blood pressure is okay. It is better to deal with that promptly, and avoid problems.
> Rintrah, since you are having headaches, you should make sure your blood pressure is okay. It is better to deal with that promptly, and avoid problems.
https://sl.bing.net/bM6rDqIZTqK
😉
I don’t understand the link.
My mother has kidney disease so I have been reading numerous accounts and a lot of people say “I got stage (whatever) kidney disease due to high blood pressure and the only symptom was headaches.” Antipsychotics can cause high blood pressure. It’s easy enough to fix with lisonpril.
lisinopril (by prescription)
> I don’t understand the link.
You are not familiar with Wifejak?
My mistake.
This is one of those moments where my immaturity (and familiarity with online discourse) clashes with your well-deserved maturity.
(Head in hands right now)
Okay, I have found an online explanation. I think I am more like a mom vis a vis Ritrah; GenX is not wife age for a guy in his 30s. “Autist mom-like person says don’t blow out your kidneys by taking your antipsychotics without regard for renal function.”
@Kareninca: “GenX is not wife age for a guy in his 30s”
You must be an older GenX, closer to the boomers, because the youngest GenX was born in 1980, which is only 5 or 6 years older than someone who is currently 39, or in Rintrah’s case, are less than 10 years apart.
Personally, despite looking young enough to pass for a millennial, I would never date one, because there’s too much cultural incompatibility. I think it has to do with being one the last generations to grow up in an era without social media and smartphones, for us we can more clearly see how this change from primarily engaging with the natural world to that of artificial constructs, has created a new breed of human that is more predisposed to mental illness than all previous generations combined.
@Mehen: “You are not familiar with Wifejak?”
I never heard of it either, and I’m not old enough to be the mother of a millennial. I think it must be a guy thing, or rather an incel guy thing. I looked up Wifejak, and my first reaction was, why? Who wastes their time with this garbage? I never even heard of 4chan until a couple of years ago, and that’s probably a good thing.
@Big Bird: “I’m not old enough to be the mother of a millennial.”
I misspoke. Damn, I’m older than I thought. I guess I am old enough to be the mother of a millennial, but only the youngest ones, not all of them.
Rintrah, you are making an incredible progress at self-healing, trying to “unplug” from attention-seeking, engagement-driven Internet “doomsaying” and other crap driving social networks.
I am trying to do the same thing. The social networks were destroying my mind and my attention span. I realized that the mostly-true shit I was posting about Covid vaccines was affecting specific individuals in a way that I realized was harmful to them.
A doom may be around the corner. It will likely be completely unexpected and come from something we all overlooked. But the online doomsayers become driven by the desire for attention and start ignoring facts. Fuck them. Fuck the Internet. Enjoy life while you still can.
I love your blog, and I hope that you and I can be a good influence or, at worst, not an influence.
well, try to seek ‘refuge’ in spiritual life, not a material escape though, as material life will deteriorate sooner or later.
Death comes to ANYONE eventually, it’s a doom on individual scale actually.
When facing death, one might realize the futility of material life. The same recognition might come on large scale, if humanity see the coming ‘doom’.
That’s the purpose of a doom.
You might just be right.
If there is a purpose to the misery, then perhaps finding God is it.
Thanks Igor. you are right. It all has a harmful impact on mental health.
I really appreciated your articles when you were publishing, Igor.
Reducing the rate of childhood vaccination would be doing genuine good in the world
And it is interesting to get updates on the fertility situation
An hour ago someone walked past my patio dressed as a ten foot tall Easter Bunny and my dogs went insane with joyous yapping, they were so happy that one of them dropped her ball on the other side of the patio fence and I had to go borrow my father in law’s old person pick up stick to retrieve it. It was wonderful. Also I watched some scary videos of Spanish Catholic Easter rituals, which included a giant black cart and men with black hoods and outfits and ominous music. And I phoned my mom on the East Coast since she was having lunch at a Chinese buffet with some relatives after an Easter visit to other relatives in a facility (the Chinese buffets are open on Easter). And my favorite cousin (by marriage), who is borderline retarded but very kind, phoned me and gave me good advice; she gives the best advice despite or because of being extremely mentally simple. Rintrah, you need to stay as physically healthy as possible so that you can get older and enjoy these sorts of things.
I think there’s something to be said for the Christian thing.
It’s useful and it also seems to be true.
We all survived peak oil and the ‘Mayan apocalypse’ etc, and yet we all know what’s coming:
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.”
I was looking for Easter messages to inspire me, and this one made me laugh:
“Christ hopped up out the grave, which no bunny can do. This is the greatest story of being free. It is the biggest leap in history- from death to life. Have a blessed Easter!”
Okay, so no Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny, we’ll just have to settle for the truly miraculous instead.
Happy Easter!
Oh, but you’re wrong.
SOMETHING is happening ALL THE TIME
Not the “things” which each individual’s imagination has cooked up as a result of their subconscious wants/needs/wishes and various other processes..
It’s the fact that every socio-political issue is split down the edge, and provides our individual minds the opportunity to interact with the “Other” which we perceive as our “enemies”. To have a scrap of difference between ourselves which gives this meaningless existence some “meaning” and “drama”.
It’s all a story and a game.
Happy Easter!
LIE TWENTY ONE
Bodies In Space Belong To Physics,
Souls In Bodies Belong To The Priests,
And Both Belong To The Politicians
When enough people repress or deny the same quality the
attribute appears as either a god or a devil. Thus, we are all
responsible for Jesus as well as Hitler. Now, what I just
said is truly metaphysics.
Isolating qualities from the whole and giving them inde
pendent existence is simply a convenient device that allows
us to worship or slaughter each other.
*Attribute isolation is a primitive technique*
*of the propagandist, the fascist,*
*the professor and the priest.*
Separating parts from the whole and then forgetting the
whole leads humans to believe that they can destroy “evil”
while still having “good.”
*Man is torn between his fear of hell
and his greed for heaven.*
The notion of limitation rests on the desire and terror that
the old laws of physics will be suspended. The joke is that
Newtonian physics, Plato’s caves and Aristotelian logic
never hindered a *living* being. They simply used the models
to achieve their ends and continued dancing.
*Our greatest pastime is to create idols
and later destroy them *
*Most men want to be insects*
You cannot avoid the ecstasy-terror of existence no
matter how creative you are. There is no end to self
overcoming.
Have you ever heard of Jehovah having a good belly
laugh? Or, for that matter, his son? They are miserable
creatures and in their misery the flock take refuge.
Never be fooled by a long face or a quick tongue — it
doesn’t mean *you* know anything.
BECOME WHO YOU ARE
THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES
Karen, I’m really high right now but something in me has been telling me for some time that you should hear this track.
DO NOT LISTEN ON A BLUETOOTH OR COMPUTER SPEAKERS
A subwoofer or otherwise deep bass system would be ideal
A good set of over-ear headphones might be ok, but NO EARBUDS
https://youtu.be/8URkBbDsF9o?si=N_urd8dn3UuRXYJI
“Nothing ever happens” says the madman living in a technoscape which horrifies not only his fellow living men, but would have been utterly unthinkworthy to his own father but twenty years ago. The world as we know it is unmaking herself before our eyes, and the fools, scores and scores of them, speak out, with a voice whose father they know not: “NOTHING EVER HAPPENS”
Death
Have you ever had that thought, that perhaps and only perhaps – lets just entertain the thought – the planet itself is conscious about whats happening on him?
So if Gaia not only has the awereness of whats happening on her, but also the choice of how to react to it, your whole point of worrying would be pointless.
Like… what if the storms, earthquakes, climate shifts—aren’t just reactions, but expressions? Not just consequences of physics, but signals or even emotions? Maybe it “feels” our impact, our presence, even if it’s not in a way we’d recognize as sentient.
So, just for your own wellbeing, lets assume, that our planet is self regulating, that we are not the protagonists here. Oh that humans got out of control I gotta fix that – then Gaia might shift things to restore equilibrium.
Mass extinctions? Ice ages? Plagues? Climate upheavals? In that framework, they’re not random or just tragic events—they’re course corrections. Painful, yes, but necessary from the planet’s point of view. Healing processes.
Why worry so much? Just watch it unfold. Of course I like to understand why, when, how and what exactly happens as well.
Lets just enjoy the show while the music is stil playing.
>So if Gaia not only has the awereness of whats happening on her, but also the choice of how to react to it, your whole point of worrying would be pointless.
You may be right. It’s probably an error to see the world as an object, the Greeks didn’t see it as such.
Did you ever see the BBC Drama series ‘Edge of Darkness’ from 1985?
Best. TV. Series. Ever.
Not a bad soundtrack either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpO0-IE7W9Q
Wow. I just typed a comment in here that made me realise I oughta get some help like advised. But you know.. now I fear.. nothing ever happens with me, I know that..
A week OFF life was good. Even though I really like what I do.
All while engaging in hedonism, but the german wikipedia entry of it..
PS: belated all the best to hitler and 4/20
I like edging to AI-generated hitler-porn on April 20, whilst the Estonian senior citizen next door is invited over to drink some vodka and spank me for not openly hating communists.
In this stage of the world I prefer to stay out of society as much as possible. Engaging and investing energy now in this confusion and mess makes no sense to me. I rather stay on the sideline. If I make it alive to the other side and if a positive new world emerges, then I will engage. If I wont survive, then it be so.
So for now: I let it burn and mind my own business.
Anyway, here is my advice for Rhintard:
You need to see a collapse aware therapist.
Yes, they do exist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ygk3GtrbQ
Love and kisses,
Retard.
Yes, I am retarded – retarded beyond imagination – I am a giga-retard.
When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you – Nietzsche
You can kick out as far as your ankle can endure, you know
This Tool track is badass, but it wasn’t until my relationship with Tryptie that I understood it as a Gnostic prayer
We are spirit
Bound to this flesh
We go around
One foot nailed down
But bound to
Reach out beyond
This flesh
Become pneuma
We are
Will and wonder
Bound to
Recall, remember
(We are born of) one breath
One word
(We are all) one spark, sun becoming
Child
Wake up
Child
Release the light
Wake up now
Child
Wake up
Child
Release the light
Wake up now, child
Spirit
Spirit
Spirit
Spirit
Bound to
This flesh
This guise
This mask
This dream
Wake up remember
(We are) born of one breath
One word
(We are all) one spark
Sun becoming
Pneuma
Reach out, beyond
Wake up, remember
(We are born of) one breath
One word
(We are all) one spark
Eyes full of wonder
https://youtu.be/5ClCaPmAA7s?si=druHnn8Qe-qi1NO4
To be in Awe of Life is the only True Religion
LSWM Lives Matter, you should watch “Flash Gordon”
It’s really cheesy, but at the same time relevant.
I always felt closer to Prince Barin than Flash Gordon, but that’s just me
https://youtu.be/VzFwECV8Kkk?si=BspStVzwUwSCiDZj
SYM,
It is regrettable that Meds must wrestle with Aryans before the light shines
But shine it will
https://youtu.be/1Oq6vztcjgg?si=5MskM2NF-9E2k3bC
Rattle, you and I deserve a girlfriend like this.
This would make me so happy.
I can feel the weight of her body on me as I stroke her
https://twitter.com/crazymoments01/status/1912960730774597816?s=46
And I can tell you why
People go insane
I can show you how
You could do the same
I can tell you why
The end will never come
I can tell you I’m
A shadow on the sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0–80KRUM
> And I can tell you why
People go insane
I can show you how
You could do the same
I can tell you why
The end will never come
I can tell you I’m
A shadow on the sun
One of my top 5 songs, Wombat
What a voice he had
Happy Easter to you too!
Christ is risen! as we say in the East.
I am glad you are doing better! Deciding to “slow down” the blogging a bit sounds like a very good idea.. (I often find myself trying to slow things down a bit, with mixed results of course)