http://www.hedgeco.net/blogs/2009/01/21/excerpts-and-commentary-on-ben-mcgrath%e2%80%99s-the-distopians-%e2%80%93-jan-26th-new-yorker/ HedgeCo.Net Hedge Fund Blog & Opinions Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:26:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.hedgeco.net/blogs/2009/01/21/excerpts-and-commentary-on-ben-mcgrath%e2%80%99s-the-distopians-%e2%80%93-jan-26th-new-yorker/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 DrumBeat: January 21, 2009 | EcoSilly Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:03:06 +0000 http://www.hedgeco.net/blogs/?p=159#comment-1084 [...] Excerpts and Commentary on Ben McGrath’s “The Distopians” – Jan 26th, New Yorker In a blog that he maintains, Club Orlov, he categorises his readers into three basic cultural categories; 1. “back-to-the-land types,” united in their opposition to industrial agriculture; 2. “peak oilers,” who worry about the shock effects on energy markets of reaching the maximum global crude-extraction rate; and all-around Cassandras, and 3. “people who sometimes derisively are called doomers.” (The doomers are currently enjoying a little less derision, which is a mixed blessing, because it is axiomatic among true believers that mainstream respect means that it is too late for anything to be done.) Orlov has recently acquired a fourth audience, composed of financial professionals, who have been, as he said, “bolstering my gut feeling that the United States is bankrupt.” A number of them have placed orders for multiple copies of his book, and he took some pleasure in imagining them passing it on to their friends and families this past holiday season as a grim kind of stocking stuffer. [...] [...] Excerpts and Commentary on Ben McGrath’s “The Distopians” – Jan 26th, New Yorker In a blog that he maintains, Club Orlov, he categorises his readers into three basic cultural categories; 1. “back-to-the-land types,” united in their opposition to industrial agriculture; 2. “peak oilers,” who worry about the shock effects on energy markets of reaching the maximum global crude-extraction rate; and all-around Cassandras, and 3. “people who sometimes derisively are called doomers.” (The doomers are currently enjoying a little less derision, which is a mixed blessing, because it is axiomatic among true believers that mainstream respect means that it is too late for anything to be done.) Orlov has recently acquired a fourth audience, composed of financial professionals, who have been, as he said, “bolstering my gut feeling that the United States is bankrupt.” A number of them have placed orders for multiple copies of his book, and he took some pleasure in imagining them passing it on to their friends and families this past holiday season as a grim kind of stocking stuffer. [...]

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