doom letter #5

When I think about my future, the biggest component of it is community. I want to be around people that are basically decent, rational people that know how to work and are not interested in telling other people how to live their lives. Sounds simple enough right? Well, you would be surprised how hard it is to find people that are interested in the issues about which I am concerned that are not total assholes.

Doesn’t he look like a nice gentleman?

A perfect example of the problem with “enlightened” people is a man named Stephen Fowler, who was on the most recent episode of Wife Swap on ABC. Stephen is an Oxford-educated “ecological entrepreneur” that lives an out-of-touch-with-society, yuppie existence in San Fransisco. Throughout the episode he wore black t-shirts with “sustainability” and “tree hugger” on them while verbally abusing his swapped wife – I am so happy that he didn’t wear a peak oil t-shirt. Of course, the editors of the show picked through two weeks of footage to get material for their show, and surely he didn’t spend the whole time being a complete asshole. But it was characteristic of how he interacted with his temporary wife, and I think it is indicative of how establishment liberals see people like the Long family from Missouri who they swapped with for two weeks. The most despicable aspect of the whole show was a quote from the end of the show from Fowler’s daughter saying she was glad that Mrs. Long was gone because she wasn’t very smart.

Now, due to the democratic nature of the internet, Fowler is taking his licks from the ground up which includes a Facebook group dedicated to how much of an elitist prick he is and a fair amount of harassment from regular people that were appropriately outraged by his behavior. Personally, I hope that the fallout will leave a permanent black eye on this asshole’s resume.

As far as the overall prospects of sustainability and tree-huggerdom which Stephen seems to be so concerned about, the Long’s rural life in Missouri is probably much more adaptable to sustainable living than the way the Fowlers are living in San Fransisco – not to mention the fact that the Longs are intimately familiar with their natural surroundings and don’t live in a techno-societal bubble like San Fransisco. Buy all the carbon credits you want, and talk up your academic bullshit until you are blue in the face but when the shit hits the fan, I would much rather be living alongside the Long’s in Missouri than stuck in Yuppie Hell San Fransisco with a fuck face like Stephen Fowler and his life coach/hypnotist wife.

If Fowler wasn’t such an elitist dickwad, he could have utilized the two weeks he had with Mrs. Long to tell her about the idea of sustainability and environmental concern. Instead, he let his inner-asshole loose and spent the two weeks berating her for being “fat and stupid.”

Solutions to our problems are going to come from the ground up (from people like the Longs). The dictatorial, anti-democratic “solutions” espoused by establishment environmentalists like Fowler will only be a hindrance.

Stephen Fowler, you are a despicable human being for the way you behaved and the way you are programming your kids. I hope you truly reap what you have sown and suffer greatly as a result.

Doomed by fascist environmentalists like Fowler,

mike