Style Sixes constantly scan the environment for possible dangers. They are not only highly observant, but they connect dots better than other styles. Tom Condon tipped me off to an excellent documentary that is an extended interview with a style Six at his best and perhaps worst. It is ominously named “Collapse.”
Michael Ruppert is a former CIA operative. The CIA is your quintessential six organization, raising paranoia to an art form and a life style. But Ruppert is exceptionally well informed and treats a topic already hot on the internet among non-Fox viewers–peak oil. Peak oil is that time when we have extracted half of the world’s known oil resources. That time is now, Ruppert says, and spends a lot of the movie explaining the dire consequences of that. His information is solid, as far as I can tell. It fits in with all the science I have been able to read. But as you watch the movie, you also see that he is coming from a deep inner fear that is or is not warranted by the data. He is right, but he is narrowly right. He does not see any solutions to the bleak picture he paints. If you watch this, you might want to go see Ray Kurzweil, a Seven, talk about how our information technology is doing wondrous things and is going to get better all the time. You can google him on TED.