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To: Hugh A who wrote (49217)	5/1/2004 12:42:26 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Hugh, I've just finished a very interesting and useful book called "The Party's Over" by Richard Heinberg. tinyurl.com The story is basically about the end of the era of cheap energy resource growth. Heinberg described folks like me as "idealistic intellectuals". Whereas I see the best course for human happiness to be greater social equality and a society which humanely takes care of all of its members. He distinguishes this class of people from the Right Wing ideologues who believe that glorifying the individual is the best thing for society. The RWEs argue that competition and acquisition of material wealth are the greatest aspirations of the human race. Neither side of the coin seem to be adequately addressing the basic premise of the book. That we are about to need to radically readjust our expectations because the cheap and abundant energy-driven party is over. The reality of the 21st Century is going to be ever increasingly severe wars and resentments over the theft of resources by the rich world, such as we are currently witnessing in Iraq. My view of accountability is that the citizens of the U.S. ought to begin to really start to think seriously about what it will take to "live within our means". The right wing is obsessed with creating a police state at home and a military empire abroad. Which side is correct is anyone's guess. I simply think I'm on the moral side of the street, while the right wing thinks people like me are hopelessly naive because we weren't born with the "selfishness" gene as the greatest driving force in our beings. If that's illogical, so be it. If I'm expressing a lack of accountability, I'd love to have you point out how. I see the lack of accountability is on the other side of the street where "the ends justifies the means", "the truth is so precious it needs to be hidden in veils of lies" and weapons of mass deception have supplanted the illusory weapons of mass destruction. The concept itself a grand illusion perpetrated with the most unaccountable national Administration this nation has ever been forced to endure.

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