There seems to have been an overlooked, yet very well-attended, course of study in colleges and universities that teaches students to be depressed. It’s Wallow in Despair 101. It’s amazing that so many people have learned just how bad everything is and that everything is getting worse and worse.
Listening to people, we’ll hear that the economy is bad, the environment is being destroyed, war is raging everywhere, disease is rampant, and we’re running out of gasoline.
The most pervasive belief of all is that “we’re running out of oil”. Otherwise intelligent people persist in believing that there are limited amounts of what they’re taught to call “fossil fuels”, and that they must be conserved. In some circles, it is an article of faith in the religion of the state that one must believe “We are running out of fossil fuels” because we are so “greedy and short-sighted.”
In fact, we will not run out of oil and the gasoline that’s made from it because these hydrocarbons are being continually produced from the intense heat far below the earth’s surface. Most other “problems” are like the “running out of oil” problem, largely imaginary. People with time and effort invested in taking such things seriously aren’t happy with the good news that we won’t run out of oil. Many of them simply refuse to believe it. They’d rather be depressed about how depressing it all is.
But, there it is.
