[23] News from Absurdistan - Oil and War

Click on the title of this post to learn something about war as an inappropriate means of gaining meaningful control over oil.

The last four posts dealt with "war and oil" and go to show that Alan Greenspan's nonsensical pronouncement that the Iraq evasion "was not about oil, while it was about oil" (my rephrasing of his words quoted in the below: "[20] News from Absurdistan...") reveals just how confused "the best and brightest" of our great Western "civilization" are, and that a person tends to qualify for that category largely by dint of being a con-man, a poker-faced poser, talking or staring at another man longer than the interlocutor can endure the notion that the word of an "authority" like Alan Greenspan might be a lot less worth than the listener's own hard thinking.

Corruption breeds con-men. Our present political system breeds corruption in a big way...complete the syllogism for yourself.

In the self-righteous West, political consent for major issues such as war is once again driven by irrational insinuations, conceit and vulgarisation. All the "paraphernalia" of the holocaust are in place and operative, including the genocide of the Iraqi people, but we could not care less.

The lies hurled at the "enemy" - "known" to be irrational beasts trying to exterminate us etc. - are projections of our conduct.

We do not understand what we are thinking. We do not comprehend what we are doing. And then, trivially, we do not know what we are talking about. But we talk, and talk, and talk...and the cycle of blindness starts anew.