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161 comments on (Peak Oil) Ignorance is Strength ?
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Wisdom,
I know it may be hard sometimes to separate the wheat from the chaff in the USA but there are a lot of very very good people in this country. I came here when I was 2 and have been a citizen since 1965. I was born in Brazil to Hungarian parents and have lived and worked in many parts of the world. America has many faults but I can tell you from personal experience that the same is true of all countries and all people. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. However it might be a good idea to remember that the majority of Americans are not personally powerful and are also victims of the current crisis.
Be well my friend and do not be too quick to judge.
Amen
....which is the Western equivalent of Insh'allah.
It is also good to learn from, rather than repeat, history. And the "majority of Americans are not personally powerful" have stood by and allowed this all to happen. We like to blame the politicians (whom we elect) and the corporations (that we work for and whose products we buy) for the ills of the world, but the fact is, we are America. It is what we make of it/allow others to make of it.
Look at the idiocy in Washington and on Wall Street. Where are the protests? Where are the marches? Perhaps not directly guilty, but surely not wholly innocent, either.
I see the crises we face, and things like Transition Towns and Relocalization, etc., as both the source and avenue of change. In the end, it all comes down to a proactive and activist populace.
Cheers