Patriotism being the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings, shall we ask ourselves what patriotism itself means at this point in time?
Some people are asking us to believe that patriotism means a blind faith in those who are governing us at the moment; that patriotism can be defined by a slavish obedience in both thought and action to a group of oil executives who have taken up residence in our capital.
This at a time when oil depletion projections suggest that global oil supplies will peak, most likely in around eight years, and that
a global crisis will shortly follow that will make the oil crisis in the seventies look like a Sunday picnic.
That an oil collapse is headed shortly our way is a given. What we will do to minimise the
effects of that collapse is the defining question facing every human being on this planet.
Our leaders tell us that all we need to do is drill more... That alternate energy is a myth.
Digging us further and further into a hole that possibly only half the present global population might survive. Spending hundreds of billions on a pipe dream/porkbarrel missile defense system that could be spent on developing R&D for, say photoelectrochemical hydrogen production (converting sunlight and seawater to a powerful fuel source, which is much closer to fruition than missile defense, and could theoretically ultimately free us from MidEast oil, and also to save many many American lives as the lights flicker out
around the world.
We are between Iraq and a hard place:
Iraq symbolising the rise of the Sons of Saladin, and the hard place being those who are misgoverning us. We're in a position not unlike that of a guy who winds up in jail somehow, and is forced to join one of two jail gangs, merely to survive.
I could go on forever, but I have to go, I'm afraid.
yrs,
David
Is Patriotism Patriotic?
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Patriotism being the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings, shall we ask ourselves what patriotism itself means at this point in time?
Some people are asking us to believe that patriotism means a blind faith in those who are governing us at the moment; that patriotism can be defined by a slavish obedience in both thought and action to a group of oil executives who have taken up residence in our capital.
This at a time when oil depletion projections suggest that global oil supplies will peak, most likely in around eight years, and that
a global crisis will shortly follow that will make the oil crisis in the seventies look like a Sunday picnic.
That an oil collapse is headed shortly our way is a given. What we will do to minimise the
effects of that collapse is the defining question facing every human being on this planet.
Our leaders tell us that all we need to do is drill more... That alternate energy is a myth.
Digging us further and further into a hole that possibly only half the present global population might survive. Spending hundreds of billions on a pipe dream/porkbarrel missile defense system that could be spent on developing R&D for, say photoelectrochemical hydrogen production (converting sunlight and seawater to a powerful fuel source, which is much closer to fruition than missile defense, and could theoretically ultimately free us from MidEast oil, and also to save many many American lives as the lights flicker out
around the world.
We are between Iraq and a hard place:
Iraq symbolising the rise of the Sons of Saladin, and the hard place being those who are misgoverning us. We're in a position not unlike that of a guy who winds up in jail somehow, and is forced to join one of two jail gangs, merely to survive.
I could go on forever, but I have to go, I'm afraid.
yrs,
David
Some people are asking us to believe that patriotism means a blind faith in those who are governing us at the moment; that patriotism can be defined by a slavish obedience in both thought and action to a group of oil executives who have taken up residence in our capital.
This at a time when oil depletion projections suggest that global oil supplies will peak, most likely in around eight years, and that
a global crisis will shortly follow that will make the oil crisis in the seventies look like a Sunday picnic.
That an oil collapse is headed shortly our way is a given. What we will do to minimise the
effects of that collapse is the defining question facing every human being on this planet.
Our leaders tell us that all we need to do is drill more... That alternate energy is a myth.
Digging us further and further into a hole that possibly only half the present global population might survive. Spending hundreds of billions on a pipe dream/porkbarrel missile defense system that could be spent on developing R&D for, say photoelectrochemical hydrogen production (converting sunlight and seawater to a powerful fuel source, which is much closer to fruition than missile defense, and could theoretically ultimately free us from MidEast oil, and also to save many many American lives as the lights flicker out
around the world.
We are between Iraq and a hard place:
Iraq symbolising the rise of the Sons of Saladin, and the hard place being those who are misgoverning us. We're in a position not unlike that of a guy who winds up in jail somehow, and is forced to join one of two jail gangs, merely to survive.
I could go on forever, but I have to go, I'm afraid.
yrs,
David
