There is a psychological mechanism whereby you want somthing , and you know in order to get it you are going to have to do somthing that you know is "wrong - but you want it becasue its in your interest - so you go ahead and do it and then make up a rational explanation for why it was the reasonable thing to do.



The "greed" part is the fact that we've been consuming and living way above our means for all these years. Demand from the average citizen for ultra cheap oil embodies this psychological phenomena just as much as any corporation's drive for profits........ The whole rail system in the U.S. was destroyed via conspiracy by general motors , standard oil and firstone to create artificial demand for cars...
so what happened? once the car culture took- off ..... people didn't ( and don't ) fight it because the constituency that has amassed is strong enough to beat back any desire to have the type of mass transit that would be more benifical to the enviorment and benificial to a more localised way of life...

easy energy has magnified the whole spectrum of human nature ...from feeding and diseminating medicines all over the world to building nuclear bombs and large scale warfare.


so if you want to get into rationalizations - you might want to start by looking in the mirror. If your want the system to recede - the entire spectrum has to go.

you can blame Bush or haliburton or the troops or whoever all you want - and i'm not saying that it isn't waranted - because to a large degree it is ..... but its more complicated..






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