Page added on September 11, 2007
One question that readers ask me often is why the mainstream media is doing such a poor job of reporting the nexus of the global energy emergency and the turmoil in global finance. I maintain my “allergy” to conspiracy theories. There isn’t any clique of top-hatted Wall Street biggies with monocles joining with with gray-suited CIA-types to intimidate editors with tongs and electrodes. American culture has become self-dis-informing.
As my friend Peter Golden (blogger at Boardside) puts it so well:
“When people lie, they know they are doing something wrong. But when they just make things up, there’s no consciousness of right or wrong at work. It seems morally okay to live in a fantasy world
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