'Loose Talk'
By Benjamin Benedict

Homo sapiens is still very much a ‘work in progress’. Apparently they can look at the model of any species and ascertain whether it has reached it’s optimum form and functionality, and our species is nowhere near being the finished article. We have only been around for one hundred and fifty thousand years, so we can hardly expect to be the end product.

In spite of games such as chess, one of the major deficiencies in our make-up seems to be our inability to react to changing circumstances until after they have changed. How many times have our ancestors just sat there when the writing was on the wall? From the fall of Rome to the Second World War, the list is almost endless, and on a personal level I have been oblivious to the obvious so many times and so many times have I kicked myself for it.

It would be nice to think that as we drift downstream, that we are at least able to guide ourselves between the rocks in front of us, but particularly when things seem fairly settled we loose our eye and it seems our nerve.

Never mind, when a disaster occurs, we can always construct a conspiracy theory to take the blame from ourselves. But there is a very real conspiracy, and that is over our energy needs.

Behind the ‘inconvenient truth’ that oil and gas may have a hand in Global Warming lies the even more inconvenient truth that we are running out of them. This is actually why oil is now £100 a barrel. All the other stuff they tell you is an attempt to hide that essential fact.
‘What will gas cost this time next year?’ I asked the guy at the gas station.
‘I never thought of that,’ he said, laughing like a drain.
 It is true that there is a lot of coal and oil shale lying around, but to make them a viable alternative energy source would take a good decade and would surely be a step backwards.

There are quite a number of other alternatives, but decisions relating to their pursuance should have been taken at least ten if not twenty years ago if they were to come on stream in time. It is simply too late now.

I was watching a re-run of ‘The Big Bulge’, a Second World War Movie and near the end Robert Shaw who plays the Nazi Panzer Commander, says to his adjutant ‘But chu don’t understant, Heinz. It ist not about vinning ze var. It ist about ze var goink on FOR EVER!
‘But vat about my sons?’ Says Heinz.
‘Zey vill be soldiers, und you vill be proud of zem.’ Comes the reply.

The conspiracy is to weaken society so that Big Brother can govern the subjugated population and in this present case it is simply achieved by letting the oil and gas run out without allowing enough time to gear up for the alternatives. The pressure is already on the public from every quarter, when it should be on the politicians. They should have been working on the alternatives for the last twenty years, and the reason they haven’t is that they don’t want us getting above ourselves as we did in the sixties. They want control, and if goods, housing and transport are cheap, they loose it.

This conspiracy is not orchestrated by any particular group or party, it is an across the board unspoken conspiracy, carried out by simply not taking any significant action. The Politicos all want us to wear nappies and have our arses wiped, and live our lives as if we were under wartime conditions, and under orders. ‘I’m gonna be taken care of until I die,’ says a prisoner with a life sentence, as if he had done something clever. And that is the way they want us all to think.

It would in turn, be nice to think that we, the public who have a certain amount of control over who governs us, would see this coming and elect someone to smash this plot against our liberty, but my bet is that rationing of essential commodities will be with us within the next ten years, and they won’t need a war to make it stick.

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