The Conservative Cave
Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnnyReb on January 16, 2009, 01:19:33 PM
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"A reduction of per capita energy consumption has always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a reversion to a more primitive way of life...Anyone who has watched a sweating Chinese farm worker strain at his heavily laden wheelbarrow, creaking along a cobblestone road, or who has flinched as he drives past an endless procession of human beasts of burden moving to market in Java - the slender women bent under mountainous loads heaped on their heads - anyone who has seen statistics translated into flesh and bone, realizes the degradation of man's stature when his muscle power becomes the only energy source he can afford. Civilization must wither when human beings are so degraded....High-energy consumption has always been a prerequisite of political power. The tendency is for political power to be concentrated in an ever-smaller number of countries. Ultimately, the nation which controls the largest energy resources will become dominant."
Admiral Rickover
Makes you want show this to the DUmmies ....but then again, at the same time, you're going, "Ah hell! What's the use."
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why would you want to show that to DUmmies? so that you can get the blank stare, followed by "Who's Admiral Rickover?" followed after that by "Sounds like a warmongerer, justifying his violence to me"
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I remember the day he died. I also remember a lot of smiling nukes that day as well, not coincidentally.
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out-frickin-standing post Reb. nothing short of post of the year IMO.
the admiral was brilliant and I stand in awe of you finding this and sharing it with us.
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Here's a good article on Rickover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover