Never Forget Your Addiction to Oil....

[Junkdrawer]

So....

Before landfall, Sandy leads the news for a week, but Climate Change is hardly whispered in the Corporate Media...

After landfall, the subject is broached by a Business Magazine:



So, of course, the big issue leading the news now: Gasoline Shortages.

Dance, you addicted monkeys, dance.

Cold Turkey

BY Kurt Vonnegut

Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace.

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But I’ll tell you one thing: I once had a high that not even crack cocaine could match. That was when I got my first driver’s license! Look out, world, here comes Kurt Vonnegut.

And my car back then, a Studebaker, as I recall, was powered, as are almost all means of transportation and other machinery today, and electric power plants and furnaces, by the most abused and addictive and destructive drugs of all: fossil fuels.

When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and very soon now there won’t be any more of those. Cold turkey.

Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn’t like TV news, is it?

Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/cold_turkey/

[Strelnikov_]

1. End game is gonna play out like a season of The Wire

with the crews being armed with thermonuclear weapons.