NeoReality: Peak Oil And Iraq

It is perfectly reasonable that American military casualties are the American public’s prime concern in Iraq but quite clearly there is much more at stake.

A dispassionate observer from the outer space may watch with amazement how an incredibly complex and resourceful society of Homo economicus, armed with the most advanced technology and all of the knowledge amassed through their entire history, that is voluntarily, with determination, even enthusiastically painting itself into a corner and reduces its future options to what in the game of chess is termed zugzwang (compulsed move)
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