Kunstler published an interesting article recently.
One question that readers ask me often is why the mainstream media is
doing such a poor job of reporting the nexus of the global energy
emergency and the turmoil in global finance. I maintain my "allergy" to
conspiracy theories. There isn't any clique of top-hatted Wall Street
biggies with monocles joining with with gray-suited CIA-types to
intimidate editors with tongs and electrodes. American culture has
become self-dis-informing.
As my friend Peter Golden (blogger at Boardside) puts it so well:
"When people lie, they know they are doing something wrong.
But when they just make things up, there's no consciousness of right or
wrong at work. It seems morally okay to live in a fantasy world — and
this is much more pernicious to the public discourse than lying."
My friends, who are mostly ex-hippie, yuppie
progressives, have been locked in prayer to exorcise the evil spirit of
George W. Bush for six years, but they fail to recognize a more
comprehensive failure of leadership in every sector of American life,
and especially in the ones where a lot ex-hippies-now-yuppies run
things. Our political leadership may be deplorable, but so is our
leadership in business, education, the arts, and especially the media. More
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