Yes.... Something schaeffer didnt grasp. Today i would point that out if i was in the same conference. but i was in a world that projected itself as "smart" .... It is, and not really....
Being young, just starting college, and a fish out of water, i was led to think or "believe" highly educated people knew what they were talking about. Now i am francis schaeffers age that he was at the time... I have to laugh at his absurdities.i grasped the emotion i was confused by his logic then.
I think there comes a point when you reach a certain level of population where humanitarian decisions are more detrimental to the survival of the whole. Yes this view is quite unpopular but unless "sacrifices" are made, or we stop making shortsighted decisions that are governed by the accumulation of wealth for a few than raising the bar of standards of both quality of life and efficiency of consumption.
I think privileged segments of humanity have either buried and sabotaged, or bought and shelved a great many inventions, revolutionary processes, and technologies that raised the bar in fuel consumption and energy conservation to a whole new level. For one purpose I can only fathom as it would cause a loss in capital. Yet the market would recover, it always does, because it will balance itself to the new input that it receives. Combustion tech is well over 150 years old. yet the base model of this technology has not changed too much. Why is that?
Cars come off the factory line burning fuel 40% too rich. The ethanol "solution" to the emissions problem did nothing, to make matters worse the combustion engines of cars were made to run on unleaded fuel and diesel with no substitutes, and as a result the engines run a rough estimate of 30% less efficient. So now our cars and motorcycles run on a 30% potential fuel efficiency.
Would you buy something that ran at only 30%, where 70% of the fuel you put in your transportation is literally wasted? I don't think so. Who made the ethanol fuel? oil companies? who won in the end because they are making 70% more profit than if they A) built the cars to an efficient spec, and B) did not redesign an engine that would run on ethanol at a higher efficiency. Oil companies, yes other corporate entities are involved, but I think the prior is at the top of this pyramid of corruption. I sound like a conspiracy nut now.
Do they make drill bits that do not break, yes....yes they do. I cannot say who as I would not want my father to be in any legal trouble with X drilling company. But yes there are products out there that wear down at an astronomically slower rate than even the best products available. They are just not available to ANYONE. Why would they sell it, they would make no money if the parts never needed replacing. You can make an engine out of semi precious metals that degrade and corrode at a much slower rate. But why would a company want to sell a car that never needed parts replacement?
Money is what governs these shortsighted decisions. Decisions made that project only a mere 20-50 years into the future. A generation or two.
I am convinced we are ****ed, if we don't change this attitude of greed a high percentage of humanity has, into something that is geared on sustainability and comfort with what is required to live and be happy.
But you would need to restructure how people think about things from square one. Competition is important to instill drive in people but make it geared to be collective competition. Individual competition instills bot drive, self preservation and greed in a person's mentality. It creates a sea of individuals climbing over each other to stand on the top. As opposed to a collective or team working in unison to raise the entire population to the top. You could write a whole book on how we are raised drives how we think. And in my honest opinion America is a nation full of individuals with the goal of getting the most of what they can when they can however they can. There is very little sense of community in America.
If I made a pole and asked how many Americans that live in a neighborhood, know anything about at least 10 of their neighbors, what they do, first and last name, their hobbies. etc etc. I bet you there are 5% that would fall into that category. I'll just stop here I covered a fair enough bit I think.
but we are doomed if we continue how we have been continuing.