From Jenna Orkin
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With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
re: Peak Idiocracy?
ReplyDeleteOberlin was just as crazy in the 60s, so they haven't changed much in the past 50 years...much more disturbing was the New Yorker story linked to at the end of that piece, about how so many campuses nationally are developing their own restrictive versions of permissible politically correct behavior...i have a bad feeling about where that will take us when they graduate into the larger society and begin to enforce their doctrines on the rest of us...