Morality and Consumption.

This is for Jerome a paris, over at DailyKos, who's REALLY banging his head against the way trying to get people to pay attention to the massive problem of energy instrastructure meltdown.

And he's right about the actual problem. But he expects anything to be doen about it? Not gonna happen. Why? It does come down to moral considerations...or at least amoral ones.

See, modern morality..."family values" just dont' let that happen. They don't do sacrifice. Especially for THOSE people. Racist? Not really. THOSE people could be blacks. It also could be liberals. Or people who live in the North. Or people who live in California. Or people who live in San Francisco.

THOSE people could also be their neighbours. Who just happen to go walking in the wilderness instead of going to church.

But the point is, these people will not do shared sacrifice. They believe that any sacrifice, the gains should directly benefit them. And this, where they're losing their cheap transportation to drive from their gated community for an hour to go into the city to work. Damnit, that's their god-given right.

And this isn't hardcore consevatives I'm talking about here. This is the average reaction. This is the cultural poison. Greed has gone way too far.

So Jerome. I feel for you. I really do. But we need to win the bigger, nastier, tougher war to even stand a chance to win the more important ones.