ART AND ENERGY AND CULTURE

A serious break on art as revolution is not understanding energy dependence (as it is uniquely taught here on OFW). We do , however, have to guard against viewing energy in a one sided manner--as physical to the exclusion of behavioral.

Something I wrote elsewhere might apply her;

"While in Mexico in the late 60's, I met a historian researching slavery there, and he assured me that there were more slaves in Mexico than in the US during the 18th century (or some period therein anyway). With the enormous Hispanic population in the US, as well as the large number of southerners "passing," DNA tests ought to demonstrate that people who qualify as black under America's "one drop" culture would qualify the the USA as a majority black country."

http://media.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/index.html

Since we've been discussing raw physical energy as a means of colonizing, how about considering it from the opposite end AS WELL and as a process of cultural dominance? It's not as though we'll all blend in and be the same one day. That "one day" is looking mightily as though it could miss the bus. The issues are about now. Right at this very moment, America is arguably a black majority country, and numbers are a major driver of energy impacts. What we do with this knowledge makes a big difference in how we see energy.