Rock always wins
An episode of Seinfeld proved that rock shatters scissors and flies through paper. In short, nothing beats rock. Rock is immovable and obdurate – it makes no compromise and brooks no discussion. Rock simply is.
I’m tempted to say that for 8 years we Americans have acted as if this wasn’t so.
I realize, however, that we’re talking about a number far greater than any one man or nation, a problem more complex than any single issue and a time that is quite a bit longer than any handful of turnings of the seasons.
The drugstore pony of “cheap” energy we have ridden for centuries is playing out. The equations of growth appear impossible to solve and armies of woe march across our world unchecked. Consequences unimaginable don’t seem quite so unimaginable any more.
We’re about to wrench the wheel of the world, to set ourselves on a new course.
The course correction can be to whatever degree we want.
I’m hoping it’s to the degree we need.
