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Sputnik is getting low. Even if we have a moment with a new one, it won't get far at the current rate of supply and demand, not to mention increasing demand.
The old paradigm is rapidly failing and do we get a massive effort to transition as quickly as possible? No. We get platitudes and old-style, visionary rhetoric that applied to a time when fuel and resources seemed infinite. They are not. Growth and consumption as we know it cannot and will not continue at previous rates. Without admitting that and facing it collectively, we are being diverted onto a desolate road when we could be making a right turn towards a resource-based economy and reversing our systematic values disorder.
Science and facts are not playing much into the political cards at all. So much is this so that each boondoggle or feel-good, public relations victory/pep-rally speech becomes more transparent: "Help us keep this charade going and please don't misbehave no matter how things crumble and dissolve around you! Watch the TV and enjoy the movies if you can afford either. Stay distracted and ignorant because we really need you to go along with the scheme so we can keep it propped-up. Please don't ask for or expect any political solutions to any real crises you crackpot conspiracy people believe in because we create reality, not you."
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