LITTLE IS SAID ABOUT THE PRICE OF ENERGY/OIL AND ITS ROLL, (NOTHING IS SAID ABOUT IT IN THE DEBATE OFFERED CONCERNING THE ROLL OF THE NEW DEAL IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION ) CONCERNING OUR PRESENT ECONOMIC CRISIS. EVEN LESS ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL HEALTH OF OUR COUNTRY AFTER THE BUSH BASHED WAR WEARYING LAST SEVERAL YEARS. THIS SUDDEN DRASTIC INCREASE IN FUEL PRICES, NEVER EXPLAINED IN TERMS ANYONE COULD UNDERSTAND, RAVAGED THE ECONOMY EVEN MORE THAN THE POINTLESS WAR CONJURED TO EXPLAIN IT AND DEFLECT ATTENTION FROM IT AT THE SAME TIME. AS OIL DWINDLES AND OUR CONSUMPTION OF IT PROVES DELETERIOUS TO OUR HEALTH AND WELL AS OTHER LIVING THINGS; THE REAL WINNERS WERE THE SMALL TIME OIL PRODUCERS (READ: BUSH AND CO.) WHO MADE FORTUNES SUCKING THE LIVES OUT OF TRUCKERS, TRAVELERS, MANUFACTURERS ET AL. WHILE THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN RUINED AS THEIR OIL, PRODUCED AT INCREASINGLY GREATER COST AS THEIR WELLS DRIED UP BECAME LESS AND LESS PROFITABLE TO PRODUCE, THEY GOT A WINDFALL, SQUEEZING THE LAST DROP OF JUICE FROM A DYING LEMON. WE ARE EDDYING, READY FOR A FUEL CHANGE, WISING UP TO OUR BEST OPTIONS FOR RENEWABLE CLEAN ENERGY, IT IS A SPECIAL TIME; AS WAS THE GREAT DEPRESSION; ONLY THEN WE WERE COALESCING AS A NATION IN THE GREATER CONTEXT OF GLOBAL SOCIAL PRESSURES, REACHING US AS OUR TRADE AND INTERESTS EXPANDED TO INCLUDE A EUROPE SUFFERING SIMILAR PANGS, AN ASIA REFINDING ITSELF IN THE WAKE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, AND A MIDDLE EAST WALLOWING IN WHAT EVERYONE WANTED TO MAKE IT ALL RUN. GROWING PAINS YOU MIGHT CALL THEM HERE, IN EUROPE MORE LIKE MENOPAUSE AND A CHANGING OF THE GUARD, IN THE EAST, REBIRTH AFTER SOCIAL STAGNATION AFTER BEING THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION, BOTH MIDDLE AND FAR, TO SAY NOTHING OF CRAZY RUSSIA, AN INHARMONIOUS BLEND OF EAST AND WEST STRUGGLING TO FIND ITS IDENTITY. IN A WAY WE HAVE MUCH IN COMMON WITH RUSSIA. WE ALL HAVE SOME AWFUL, AWFUL KARMA TO DEAL WITH; MOSTLY BORN OF MASSIVE IGNORANCE AND MASSIVE GREED; AND DEALING WITH IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE ELECTRIC FLOW OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THIS AND OTHER ENLIGHTENED COLLECTIONS OF PEOPLE ABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME TO COMMUNICATE AT WILL WITH THE WHOLE WORLD. SO, HOW COME NOBODY TALKS ABOUT OIL AND ALL? MAYBE WE ALL KNOW IT'S IN ITS DEATH THROWS, AND HOWEVER ITS PRODUCERS WANT TO SURVIVE ITS END, WE SOMEHOW DON'T CARE?
IF WE HUMANS WERE THE POINT DOWN HERE, BUT WE'RE NOT; WE MIGHT SEE A LOGICAL PROGRESSION OF EVENTS RESULTING FROM ALL THIS COMMUNICATION, THAT WOULD LEAD US TO A PEACEFUL PROSPEROUS SOCIETY. HOWEVER, WHILE ON A PURELY HUMAN PLANE WE MAY ADVANCE WITH TIME TO ENLIGHTENMENT AS FAR AS HOW WE TREAT ONE ANOTHER; THERE IS A HIGHER MISSION FOR OUR SPECIES THAT PUTS US MORE IN THE CATEGORY OF CELESTIAL 'BOUNCERS'; AND OUR EXECUTION OF THAT FUNCTION DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON THE APPARENT FOIBLES OF OUR PAST; AS THE WAR TOYS WE HAVE DEMONIACALLY DEVISED TO DO ONE ANOTHER IN ARE THE VERY TOOLS WE NEED FOR THE JOB. WE COULD NOT DEAL WITH ARMAGEDDON, THE FIERY INTERRUPTION OF ALL WE HOLD DEAR BY FLYING BALLS OF ICE AND FIRE; WITHOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, WHICH WHILE THEY APPARENTLY THREATEN TO BE OUR UNDOING, ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO SAVE THE PLANET AND ALL LIFE UPON IT... THUS WE ARE BORN TO IRONY, ILLOGICAL CREATURES, AND WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT LOGIC TO SAVE US OR MAKE OUR LIVES MORE BEARABLE, WHEN BEARING DOWN UPON US AS I WRITE IS AN ENEMY SO TERRIBLE AND MINDLESS AS TO MAKE THE GRANDEST WARS, THE GREATEST INVENTIONS, THE FINEST ART, AND ALL OTHER EVENTS ABOUT WHICH WE ARGUE, MOOT. THE ONLY PEOPLE DOING ANYTHING OF REAL CONSEQUENCE ARE THE ROCKET SCIENTISTS WE ARE OVERPOPULATING TO PRODUCE. THE REST IS COMEDY.