Notebook IV pg. 5-7, ix-xii

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. James Howard Kunstler.

• "Fossil Fuels had the effect of temporarily raising the carrying capacity of the earth." (12)

• "The oil crisis of the 1970s stimulated so much frantic drilling and extraction that a twenty-year oil glut ensued." (13)

• "Much of suburbua is unreformable. It does not lend itself to being retroifitted into the kind of mixed-use, smaller-scaled, more fine-grained walkable environments we will need to carry daily life in the coming age of greatly reduced motoring." (17-18)

• "Suburban divisions will become the slums of the future." (18)

• "Food production at the local level may become the focus of the American economy." (18)

• "Parts of the Southwest may be significantly depopulated, starved for energy and thirsting for water that depended on cheap energy. [...] The prospects for disorder in the southeastern states is especially high, given the extremes of religiosity, hyperindividualism, and a cultural disinhibition regarding violence. The social glue holding communities and regions together will be severly strained by the loss of amenities presumed to be normal." (20)

• "The survivors will have to cultivate a religion of hope, that is, a deep and comprehensive belief that humanity is worth carrying on." (21)

THE BOGEY MAN: In old India each community chose a man to be the "bogey." He was to be slaughtered at the end of the year and to take the evil deeds of the community with him. The people were so grateful for this service that until his death the bogey was not required to do any work and could have anything he wanted.

. . . Since he had the power of the collective Shadow in him he was supremely powerful and feared.

"Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche" by Robert A. Johnson

In the Middle East it is a virtue to be selfless. Students of a great master of painting or poetry will often sign their work with the name of their master rather than their own.

Some of the pure gold of our personality is relagated to the shadow because it can find no place in that great leveling process that is culture.

(The more refined our conscious personality, the more shadow we have built up on the other side.)

It is not uncommon for people to keep a pet to carry their dark side.

Worst of all, children often have to carry the dark side of creative parents.

• The Minister's difficult child
• The wealthy man's child who leads a meaningless life

"The sins of the man Shall be visited upon the third and fourth generation." --The Bible

Any repair of our fractured world must start with individuals who have the insight and courage to own their own shadow.

God promised that if just one righteous man can be found in Sodom and Gamorrah, those cities would be spared.

The Medieval world was based on mutual shadow projection.

Projection is always easier than assimilation.