Here is why David Nutt got the boot from Cameron's crew. Look at the authors of the article in which the graph appears. The booze-making corporations of this world are working up a bit of a sweat? Some of our treasured myths are being scuttled and this is not unrelated to the previous post about OIL. Where would OIL fit in this graph? Almost certainly at the top ... if it were considered a drug, of course. That's not likely, is it? Ye never know.
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_Edward Burtynsky has a new photography exhibit, OIL, one image of which you see on the right. It looks like he has used many of his previous images from Manufactured Landscapes to create this new exhibit. Just recycling of old images or a refocusing on what he sees as the root cause of all he has heretofore documented? The photo on the left is not one of his but an image of heroin being prepared for injection, gleaned from the internet, photographer not known. How far-fetched is this juxtaposition of images? How much of an addiction is oil? How frightening are the consequences of our addiction to oil? Is oil finally being seen as a far more destructive addiction than any illicit drug? This represents a small, but growing, idea that what is usually considered a necessary evil (we have to use oil, dirty as it is, to work, travel and function as a society) is beginning to be seen for what it is, a devastating addiction that is ruining our life support system.
_BIG OIL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQXx2Dv5B8 Can't wait to see this film, "Greedy Lying Bastards". After Obama finally stood up to Big Oil, there is a growing feeling that we may have turned the corner. Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco, using all the same tactics of denial, obfuscation, lobbying, lying and burying all our heads in the sand (oil sands!). Is it possible that we will see the same educational tidal wave that put tobacco in its place? Will oil be seen, finally, as the most addictive substance so far devised by the powers that be to keep us all in thrall? Far worse than fags, far worse than drugs, far more destructive to our health, our grandchildren's health and that of the planet? Will we all see the connection between oil and our insatiable need to travel, get away, take off, get on the road, fly, drive, boat, skidoo, seadoo? "Getting high" on drugs is considered self-destructive. Getting high on travel/oil is considered perfectly normal even though its consequences are massively more damaging to all in the long run. We are horrified when we see native Canadian children on some blighted reserve, sniffing petrol but we fail to see our own deadly habit. Big Oil has us by the short and curlies. Will this film break through the film of oil that clouds our vision, letting us see the greedy lying bastards who control the world? Here's hoping. Here is the kind of thing that is happening in various cities around the world but not in Toronto ... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/arts/design/in-madrid-even-maybe-the-bronx-parks-replace-freeways.html?pagewanted=all We have Rob Model T. Ford in charge. A big carbuncle on the buttock of Hogtown. |
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