Leigh Meyers wrote: > > Adbusters ran a piece of graffitti as image a while back, it said: > > "I'd rather our boys die in the desert than I should turn down my thermostat > & drive less." > > Cold(sic) but true underpinnings of the average American's > subconscious thought process in regard to energy issues.
Sheer buffoonery. If and when we stop the killing and dying in Iraq it will be through activity including millions, probably 10s of millions of those who are not willing to turn their thermostat down. The attitude expressed in that graffitti was the essence of bourgeois evil: splitting the world up into isolated individuals and charging them all in their isolation to act with Kantian purity of motive. Carrol
