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Conundrum

Last weekend was the 24hr of LeMans. Received an interesting email from a friend regarding the purpose/effect of such events and the effects they have on our soil…

“We have an addiction to fossil fuels, and it’s not sustainable. The developed world gets 80% of its energy from fossil fuels; US, 90%. And this is unsustainable for three reasons. First, easily-accessible fossil fuels will at some point run out, so we’ll eventually have to get our energy from someplace else. Second, burning fossil fuels is having a measurable and very-probably dangerous effect on the climate. Avoiding dangerous climate change motivates an immediate change from our current use of fossil fuels. Third, even if we don’t care about climate change, a drastic reduction in US’s fossil fuel consumption would seem a wise move if we care about security of supply: continued rapid use of the North Sea and gas reserves will otherwise soon force fossil-addicted US to depend on imports from untrustworthy foreigners. (I hope you can hear my tongue in my cheek.)

How can we get off our fossil fuel addiction?”

R:

LeMans is classic. Epic. Historic.

Bread and games…

Bread and Games became the solution in Rome between 200 BC and 300 AD when it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep the people happy, happy meaning keeping them from starting the revolution against the system, against their repression and against their exploitation.

And nothing changes really. The powerful still provide Bread and Games to keep the unpowerful subdued, confused and wanting stuff they cannot have. Or, when they finally get it, wanting the next thing. Why? Because Bread and Games is a near-perfect training program.

From the cradle to the grave we are hyper-effectively programmed to be mass consumers, working very hard, confusing our identities along the way, pushing a financial divide that increasingly ends up being unequally bridged by a smaller and smaller group of people owning an ever-growing percentage of our wealth.

The reason this percentage is growing is because of the training program, the Bread and Games program, which is becoming more and more effective. TV, entertainment media, Hollywood and consumer products keep us puzzled over who to be, what to want and who to adore in the most effective repression and exploitation method in the history of mankind. The Cherry on the Cake? Anti-depressants to take away the sharp edges of your slavery-induced despair.

Oh, and hello again. :)

Been posting fairly bleak shit recently… bullshit aside, there’s a lot of propaganda out there that’s much more important and my tumbling tumblr log blog doesn’t get much attention. Anyway, it’s cold and rainy outside. Going to stay in and enjoy some Craig Armstrong while drinking some tea. Looking forward to my trip in the second week of April.

Doha, Qatar > Jakarta, Indonesia > Dubai, UAE > Karachi, Pakistan

Peace.