i think the only reason they're being allowed to reap such obscene profits right now is that it's their last hurrah, governments know it, and late to the party, the public are finally getting it, because the elephant is now not just standing menacingly in the room, it's starting to break the furniture...

the clueless sense of entitlement exhibited by the truckers and fishermen is the front end of a wave of rage that will be so much more dangerous for social stability than it would have been, had there been intelligent planning for this entirely predictable turn of events.

instead of prolonging the agony with subsidies to sunsetting, buggywhip industries, that money could be used to convert the trucks to electric, and ramp up the solar, stirling, wind, tide and biogas as if life depended on it.

the governments have colluded in the artificial rigging of energy markets and monopsonies for decades to fill the pockets of fatcats, and their lobbyist-footsoldiers, creaming cheap soundbites from pious homilies about alt. energy, then going right back to the trough and rooting for the truffles of any kind of power we can keep centralised.

this is a kind of treason on a different, and more cruelly impersonal level and scope than any in human history, seeing as its effects are rampaging through communities worldwide, climate chaos, starvation.

this anger ascendent will need a place to vent, and 'sanitising' a few romany camps and agitating at sports events will not suffice for long.

the weakest link in the chain, ironically, is the police and army security that will inevitably be used to batter and hose the first few hundreds and thousands into submission.

but when other supply lines fail, and people have missed 9 meals, then the myth that we are somehow more privileged and entitled to the world's diminishing resources than the other 4/5ths who have been downwind from our imperio-colonial resource grabbing, election-meddling, dictator-propping, carbon-spewing, human rights-trashing, torture training for a good while now, will crumble like a betty crocker cake in the rain.

no police force can keep down the people for ever, unless we want europe and the usa to become n. korea, or myanmar, and that's the $64,000 question, how far will a society that has fattened itself on myths of cultural and racial superiority allow itself to resort to becoming what it has villainised as part of its oh-so-proud, loud and avowed identity?

when the security forces look at the people and realise there aren't enough stun guns, tanks and gulags, and it's their families at stake as well....

they spent so much energy demonising freethinkers all these years, but it's not ideas that will bring their virtual global versailles crashing down, it's dumbass greed, too much sampling of their own merch, and hosts of pissed off beefy farmers, truckers, navvies, fishermen who've been told all along not to worry, oil would never run out, and it it did, well, c'est la vie, vote in a new government or two, all righteously seeing just their little part of the picture, and figuring that if they just remind the public that life as we've known it is TOTALLY dependent on them, then politicians can wave a magic wand, and they can go back to worrying about which team is going to win the quarter-final.

this combination of delusion and entitlement, grossly, most wittingly and willingly abetted by corruption and collusion at  the highest levels, is a force to be reckoned with, a potent brew of rancor and disaffection that will need to spill over somewhere.

spraying crowds with prozak lies, or talking about talks they're going to have when they've finished talking about why they're still just talking, are tactics that have worked well so far, but this time reality is not going to bend to their will, and the people are going to realise en masse that what's running down their collective leg is not rain.

when they fully grok that it didn't have to be that way, and who's been jiving them....

why then, we may have some kind of revolution. the clock is running out for more rational solutions to the perfect storm of consequences stemming from the cupidity and dishonesty of the last hundred years, and our subsequent failure to cushion the fossil fuel supply decline with good policy.

economic apartheid is the final frontier, combatting racism and sexism are way stations.

ultimately, democracy cannot be held back by orwellian media techniques and authoritarian thugs for ever. it's certainly possible in small countries where the people have never known freedom, but to try and put that toothpaste back in the tube here in the foist woild, i will be amazed if they pull it off.

perhaps after we hit bottom, a new race of leaders will emerge, as has happened in south america.

one thing for sure... we're going over the falls, and the current is way too strong to turn back, what's done is done.

interesting times, adapt or migrate...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~