Glossary of not-so-obvious words used on Freaking Prepared.

• Antidogmatarianism. Tolerance of everything but intolerance — and dogma. Couldn’t figure out how to fit more syllables to rival antidisestablishmentarianism. I would like to emphasize that this is not antidogtarianism. Dogs are great, especially pulik.
• Bad subject. John Mohawk and Yvonne Dion-Buffalo have written about how indigenous peoples have three choices of response to dominating cultures: be a good subject (”Yes, Sir.”), a bad subject (rebellion), or a non subject (going on with your own concerns, not accepting the terms offered by domination).[1] Other philosophers have created a similar breakdown. This one works for me.
• Energy descent. The inevitable slide down the back side of the oil production peak.
• Flexitarianism. The result of niggling guilt when one gives up dogma, perhaps?  Not sure why it needs a label, unless it is to entertain me — which is fine.
• Good subject. See “bad subject.”
• Non subject. See “bad subject.”
• Peak oil. The theory that oil production can be plotted as a bell curve, and we’re looking at the downside.
• Power down. An inevitable response to a future without plentiful energy.

Notes

1. Yvonne Dion-Buffalo and John C. Mohawk, “Thoughts from an Autochthonous Center: Postmodernism and Cultural Studies,” Akwe:kon 9 (4): 16-21 and Cultural Survival Quarterly, 7 (Winter 1994): 33-5.