QuotePeople need to believe in the oil market, which in turn requires assuming it will last til they and preferably the next couple generations are dead.

Or at least everyone has to believe the can can get kicked down the road for a while.  Enough time for green tech and space aliens to rescue humanity and change the game.  Roll the dice one more time.


NO, an agency that curates truth for and funded by governments will give a truth that is half snake oil, but with the credentials of hard science to bounce the can one more time.

This is where most men of my demographic make themselves irrelevant.  Ultimately their fame and fortune depends on the system.  Their esteem and identity comes from the system.  The system made them what they are, yet they imagine themselves unique.  That is a contradiction that sanity must ignore. Consequently an ability for such made men to look within, at themselves.  Is not easy to cultivate.  As it is said in 'A few good men' - They can't handle the truth.


They can't give up faith in the system.  The system has given them special papers which say they know stuff and are special.  Somehow they get money.  They are threads in the fabric who imagine a system integrity that was never there.  They will hear no talk about how sausage is really made and what the ingredients are.  New truth must be documented in books before it can become real to such men.  They must continue to be deceived.

They cannot howl on the wild side.

What is the point. -- Only that the truth of our predicament will not have a day in the sun anytime soon.