Decline and fall: how American society unravelled

[RobertEarl]

7. 1978

The era of cheap oil ended. People were either scared shitless or they determined to become more reasonable and conscious living, free individuals.

Morning in America as propagandized by the Reaganites, was the religion for the scared in that it falsely assured them they could go on living a highly consumptive and irresponsible lifestyle.

Carter had told us that we had to change and be more conservative with our consumption. That meme, mixed with the metaphors of the time, just messed with people's heads and drove them into the Reaganites arms, where they felt safe from reality.

Ever since it has been a fight between reality of limits and the old ways of get it while the getting is good; me first; oil addictive personalities.