I assume crossbowman is referring to me, and so I respond: "No" to the first question, which strikes me as a straw man concocted for no reason in which I have interest, although I do ask Monsieur Crossbowman to inquire of himself the emotion/mood in which he produced the concoction; and "no" to the second, with the same request/suggestion. I can see some logic connecting Crossbowman's post to mine, but no rationality at all, and so wonder if Crossbowman has had an addiction, as so many people in our hurried, denatured food-eating culture normally acquire, to mind-reading.

Crossbowman: "The "addiction" alluded to by you, the president, and many others actually represents the economic reality that energy could still be delivered to enough people cheaply enough (for them, as a proportion of their budget) and profitably enough (for the corporations obtaining and delivering it) that the impetus toward change was not until relatively recently sufficient to overcome the normal inertia of any large body of people. A large body of people behaves much like a physical mass in that, like matter, they tend to remain unchanging unless acted on with sufficient energy by outside forces - in this case, economic forces - rather than behaving with the logic one would expect of the individual human. This can result in cultural and economic "masses" colliding, neither system altering course even though the collision is obviously imminent to the individual on-looker."

I fully agree with Crossbowman's elaboration of the economic screw element in the normal behaviour by which the North American oil addiction has been contracted. I think it ignores the major role of diagnosticianism, which leads to (often fatuous, but definitely not in Crossbowman's case) speculation as to others' unexpressed thunk thoughts, and also to the overeating of denatured foods, which leads to the loss of present thinking and the spread of stuffed, regurgitated social (and logical, but irrational, and often also unreasonable) chit chat. (For a distinction among these adjectives, see:

www.authentixcoaches.com/ACReadingMaterial3.html).

I also wish to add that I very much hope that participants at the TT will not consider themselves to be as impotent as a pizza delivery boy, but rather will keep in mind Margaret Meade's advice which, from memory, I believe went something like:

Never forget that a small band of people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.