Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Immersed in oil
I feel as if I have been immersed in oil like a candle wick in wax since birth. Everything I eat, wear, feel or interact with in any way is connected somehow to the black gooey stuff. If my hair were torched I would burn for a week like a 1940's road flare.
Could we live without oil? Probably but life would not be as we know it now. Many would die, and all would be severely affected if there were suddenly no oil. There would be no surpluses as we know them now. Before the world was turned into a bunch of oil junkies wagons rolled, farms were farmed, wars were waged and life went on.
Life will go on. Outside of a cosmic catastrophic event that vaporizes this little corner of the universe it will go on but I still don't like thinking of myself as a oil smudge pot.
Gasoline
Gasoline is wonderful stuff. A compact, fairly light weight energy storage. It made airplanes possible. It made automobiles practical. Outboard motors, weed eaters, lawnmowers, model airplanes, electric generators you can carry with one hand, chain saws, tractors and any number of machines we take for granted were all made possible because of gasoline. It was this light weight power source and the light weight engine that burns it that made it all possible. Like whale oil gasoline will go its way but in the mean time it's what we have and if we pay attention it will help us progress beyond it.
Energy
We don't think much about it we just take it for granted that it is there. Consider that if we had a catastrophic sudden world wide failure of electrical systems that within hours thousands would die. Within days millions would die and within months billions would die. Just the failure of sterilization machines would kill millions. In the western world we overcome everything with power. Without it we would be like the Sudan and it would not take long.
There is nothing we can do about it except be aware, try to conserve it, try to get others to conserve it and be thankful for the genius that brought it to us and for the genius that will continue to supply it.
War
If you are young get use to it. If you are old you should be use to it as there has not been a day in your life that there has not been war somewhere. It's mans way. Apparently man needs war and even gives it to his made up gods. There are references through out religions that refer to war, soldiers and fighting for god. We even carry it into our domestic lives such as “war on poverty”, “war on drugs”and “war on (fill in you favorite here)”. How about “war on war”or “war on ignorance”. Not likely to happen. Get use to war, it's here to stay. Man will always think that his case is special and war is justified and as long as there are suckers to fight them there will be wars.
Sex
I'm sorry to say that not only is the United States the most hung up on religion but tops the list of the most sexually repressed as well. Not much I can say about that. Ignorance and the constant pressure to stay ignorant is probably the reason but what do I know.
Body parts
What is this obsession with Americans about not seeing certain body parts. I mean to say, in this enlightened age why is every part of a womans breast showable except the nipple but on a man even the nipple is OK. What is the difference? I once had a girl tell me that if someone saw her breast they would turn to stone. If she had been joking I would have thought she was just embarrassed by her body but she wasn't kidding The idea that some body parts are OK and some are not baffles me no end. I know that there are societies such as Moslem's that even the sight of a bare ankle drives men to murder. That is not repression that is insanity.
I hardly think that we are shielding our children so that they won't go crazy with lust. They do that at about age 13 automatically with or without seeing body parts. Besides if we really wanted to shield our children then they would not see a dozen or so graphic killings on TV everyday. Heads being chopped off, stakes through the heart, bloody machine gunnings and torture are all available on a daily basis and we do nothing however just show certain body parts and the righteous public is all upset.
It's a mystery to me.
Bicycles
Bicycles can save us. I know this seems simplistic but I believe that this simple machine is the way to harness the enormous amount of power that is going to fat in the American public. There is nothing undignified or degrading about a human as a beast of burden or providing power to get a job done. Humans went along just fine for millions of years before the bicycle and did just fine. Bicycles are so much more efficient so we will have surpluses. How nice. That means a day off. Use a bicycle. Don't just buy one. Park you car. Can't maintain you lifestyle without it? Change you life style. In nature if you don't adapt you die. Have a problem with your commitment then throw you car keys on the roof of your house. They will still be available but the effort may be more than using the bike.
This is not what I wanted to talk about today but it will have to do. I needed to get it out. I know I am preaching to the choir here as the people that read these words are not average by any means but if my words just makes one new person more aware or to question the status quo then it is a good thing for me.
Don't worry, be happy. 
Be careful who you take advice from. Some are just old fools
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