University Trained Liars

If you haven't been reading what Jay Hanson writes, you should. If you think instead of accept, you should. Here is a pivotal piece to read and understand. It's only a page or so. Break out of the bubble, start here: University Trained Liars.

Those of you who know me, know that I look forward to Monday morning to read Kunstler's blog. He hits the nail on the head almost every time. This morning was particularly accurate. Here is two paragraphs from this morning's blog. You can read the whole thing by clicking on Clusterfuck Nation - to the right.

"We're not heading into a recession but a major depression, worse than the fabled trauma of the 1930s. That one occurred against the background of a society that had plenty of everything except money. Back then, we had plenty of mineral resources, lots of trained-and-regimented manpower, millions of productive family farms, factories that were practically new, and more than 90 percent left of the greatest petroleum reserve anywhere in the world. It took a world war to get all that stuff humming cooperatively again, and once it did, we devoted its productive capacity to building an empire of happy motoring leisure. (Tragic choice there.)

This new depression, which I call The Long Emergency, will play out against the background of a society that has pissed away its oil endowment, bulldozed its factories, arbitraged its productive labor, destroyed both family farms and the commercial infrastructure of main street, and trained its population to become overfed diabetic TV zombie "consumers" of other peoples' productivity, paid for by "money" they haven't earned."