The Dividing Line Between Wish And Need

Life Without Oil, In Fact, Would Be So Different That It Is Frightening To Contemplate. We Are Addicted, And It Is No Comfortable Addiction.

A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We Call Oil - Was Just An Obscure Commodity; Today It Is Almost As Vital To Human Existence As Water.

The Dividing Line Between Wish And Need Was Never Clear.

There Are About 15 Million Muslims In The Eu. They Face Ignorance, Insult And Even Persecution. They Cannot Be Wished Away. To Impose Enlightenment Freedoms Is Self-defeating. Anyway, The Muslims Have Their Own Enlightenment.

My Belief, For What It Is Worth, Is That City Dwellers Cannot Understand The World. Insulated From Reality By Complex And Expert Systems Of Provision And Police, Baffled By Fashion And Spectacle, City Dwellers Can Distinguish Neither The Sources Of Their Existence Nor The Consequences.