" When people set aside an obvious impossibility, they don’t remain brittle and angry about it for decades afterward; it’s only when the road not taken was a real option, and the goal at the end of it noticeably better than the endpoint looming up ahead, that those who chose otherwise get shrill in defense of their decision. That shrill tone is hard to miss these days, and it’s grown in volume and intensity over the course of the thirty year vacation from reality the industrial world took in the aftermath of the Seventies. "

― John Michael Greer , Green Wizardry: Conservation, Solar Power, Organic Gardening, and Other Hands-On Skills From the Appropriate Tech Toolkit