(I’ve edited this post to include a podcast of the entry if you’re interested)
My friend Jim’s been all a flutter about oil this week. A recent surge in “we’re running out of oil, like fucking NOW” articles abound online and in newspapers is spiking the debate on oil dependency, and just how fucked we are or might be soon.
This article, if you’ve the time to read it, (pretty much) says it all
However..
this write-up by an author of several books about our fucked situation, seems to give an even more grim outlook on the whole situation.
And if you’re feeling exceptionally in need of worry, there’s always this entire site devoted to the issue.
Personally, I can see that we’re fucked. I recognize that. It worries me, to some degree. However, I also have this bright little bulb that burns eternal in the back of my head and inscribed on its glassy surface are the words “everything will be alright”. That bulb has yet to be wrong, at least in my lifetime.
Now, look, I’m not saying there’s no cause for concern. Certainly that’s not the case. And I don’t hate Hummer-owners any less. You’re all still a bunch of cocksmugglers. Oil depleting cocksmugglers, mind you. In fact, there’s a variety of reasons you should’ve never bought an SUV in the first place, but I won’t get into that here and now.
It seems daily there’s something new that pisses me right the fuck off. Concern for this horseshit theory about “Intelligent Design” (once called “Divine Plan” but renamed to mask an alterior religious motive for more cash in the collection plate so priests can further silence their 8-year-old worshippers-gone-fucktoys) comes to mind. As does a similar thinly-veiled attempt at repressing the country’s free thought by calling out for laws to keep *gasp* same-sex couples from engaging in *gasp* hetero-activities like marriage. As if the heterofucked population hasn’t already degraded and abused marriage and family life to such a sickening degree that it’s almost become a punchline unto itself.
The whole thing is a steaming pile of shit. If they weren’t greedy for money, it was power, then more money, more power, control of thought, everyone must be the same. If there’s any dissenting opinions, I guess those better be put under control because dissent eventually leads to destruction of the popular (and often immoral and ultimately destructive) thought.
Maybe let the fucking oil run out. Maybe I don’t give a fuck and I’d kinda like to see the whole fucking thing go down in flames anyway. It’d be an ironic twist, wouldn’t it? The country that now exists solely by the money derived from every other country’s reliance on our mass-consumption on an obscene level falls under the weight of over-consuming our once-believed most precious resource? Oh, how fun irony can be.
In the end..
I still blame Bush.
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