Listener comments!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:11pm From: Hiroshi

Where is Alan Watts when we need him?

Mon. 3/30/09 7:13pm From: BF

My only personal currency is mix-tapes.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:13pm From: annie

not listening yet, what is the subject?

Mon. 3/30/09 7:16pm From: BF

Fiscal situation on currency, credit industry, housing, bankruptcy and corporation charters. Similar to last week.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:18pm From: annie

thanks, just finishing another show up... i'll be right there

Mon. 3/30/09 7:18pm From: alanwatts

hey i'm here!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:21pm From: annie

ok, yar i yis. hi alan, nice to see you here!!!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:32pm From: BF

I've noticed a lot of skepticism in people as to the practical applicability of solar power.

All environmental benefits aside, people who don't believe in climate change are difficult to sell on the idea of solar power based on climate change.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:35pm From: annie

my firm belief is that the general person will not really begin to panic until the tree has fallen across the road and he has to get out and move the damn thing out of the way. sorry about the weak metaphor, but it is how i simplify it ..

Mon. 3/30/09 7:36pm From: Sean Daily

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:36pm From: Robert

Yea! R.U

Mon. 3/30/09 7:38pm From: BF

I hear you. I've also heard a lot of that sentiment where "We'll cross that 'tree' when we come to that" in terms of shifting energy dependence.

When the oil runs dry or demand drives prices too high, solar may not seem so comparatively impractical.

Heh. And I'm a real person doing virtual things.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:39pm From: Vince

Question for R.U. - Talk a little bit about the role of pranking within the context of financial meltdown. - specifically, things like the Yes Men etc..

Mon. 3/30/09 7:42pm From: annie

sumply put, there is no perception of any real emergency yet. and now that spring and warmer weather is here, it will take back burner once again. my aim is to get municipalities and communities to begin warehousing and saving food. NOT the food banks run by government, i mean personal and private people. create them by population of the city. start now!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:46pm From: BF

Disseminating info about solar to my students would be appealing if I knew more about it.

Good cause. Stockpiling resources that have intrinsic value as life necessities. Can a brother get a grain receipt?

Mon. 3/30/09 7:47pm From: annie

and i hate to say this , but there might be a time when community service will garner you a bushel of food and not cash!!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:49pm From: Joe

Speaking of Tim Leary-

What is the connection between Tim, RU, and Trent Reznor? I've heard RU mention it briefly before, but he never went into in detail.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:50pm From: BF

I hear ya. Take the stamp outta food stamps.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:50pm From: alanwatts

of course it should be food and not cash!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:51pm From: annie

food will become a very important commodity. screw electricity and cars... food, shelter and clothing... three necessities.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:51pm From: BF

Inline with the idea of localizing currency. Circumventing the need for the centralized coin of the realm.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:52pm From: annie

word up BF..money means nothing anyway

Mon. 3/30/09 7:53pm From: alanwatts

i don't think anything will change until it becomes absolutely necessary to everyone with a plt of land, no matter how small, to grow their food in order to survive. until then we will have nothing but false obamas.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:54pm From: annie

right on alan, or whoever you are!

Mon. 3/30/09 7:55pm From: alanwatts

i'm a zen buddhist english guy. geez, i thought i was better known.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:56pm From: annie

i think i heard of you back in the 70s or so... i was stoned so it could have been anybody.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:59pm From: BF

More direct value/bartering transactions. The idea of digital currency, like craiglistdollars, is interesting-- compatible with that notion of local currency, I assume. Since I don't produce any tangible goods (ie, currency), unless a graded math test counts, but provide service in form of public education, I have a need for artificial currency (fake money?!) in order to make transactions.

Speaking of which, I love having to add numbers be able to comment here.

Yeah, dude, he's on Wiki. Check it.

Mon. 3/30/09 7:59pm From: alanwatts

yeah i may have sold that to you.

Mon. 3/30/09 8:00pm From: BF

Also says he's dead. So sell away.

Mon. 3/30/09 8:00pm From: annie

modeled on any kind of local currency, trade even steven... ten dollar hour

Mon. 3/30/09 8:03pm From: BF

But is my hour worth your hour, or the hour of a more skilled laborer, say a neurosurgeon's hour? That would also have to be taken into account.

Mon. 3/30/09 8:05pm From: BF

This was fun. Maybe I'll catch you again next week.

Thu. 4/2/09 9:36pm From: Brian Oregon

Douglas -- your discussion during the first 20 minutes of this show (listening to podcast) was incredibly clear and helpful. Thanks!

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