by Schweinshaxe » Fri 09 Jun 2006, 21:50:09
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Free', 'Y')ou probably can imagine how excited I was when I discovered that some kind of science exhibition in my city, Vienna, also had a module "(S)peak oil".
Here is the website:
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')The End of Petrol, or the Refined Soul
Question: How long can the world go on like this?
Theme: Miscalculated future and black magic
Petrol is the fuel of our well-being. It is gradually becoming
scarce—the more we use it, the quicker. Nobody can or wants to tell us how scarce petrol actually is. Speak oil has led extensive discussions with representatives of oil companies, investment firms, geologists, human rights specialists and consumers.
Our car in Favoriten invites you to take an acoustic trip into the petrol world and asks a pressing question: How much has oil become the substance of our existence and the essence of our refined souls?
So I went there straight away, happily in the thought that PO finally has hit mainstream near my home!
Boy was I disappointed when I was there. "Acoustic journey" my ass!
All it was was an old Autobus where you could listen to some kind of arty farty radio play, which was loosely centered around oil and PO, but wtf, I swear if you didn't know about PO before, you would have thought it was some weird esoteric buddhist shit...
The guy who was there also didn't know shit, "I am just guarding the installation...", and there was no other material to read or watch whatsoever...
This is supposed to be about science! Facts facts facts! Instead it's wishi washi crap!
Allegedly there is a weekly experts round table with oil executives etc., I wonder if I should show up and ask some hard questions, any suggestions to counter cornucopian BS?
Maybe I should bring the Hirsch report with me? Problem is that this report is for the US...
Cut the "science" bullshit and become an "organisation programmer" instead. Then you'll have the time to test vibrating butt plugs, to take long afternoon shits in the corporate toilet with your favourite magazine and to watch the World Cup on TV during working hours... And to make a shit load of money while you're doing it! Science is for losers, zen-buddhism programming is for winners...