There is going to be an energy crisis, obviously. The supply of oil is finite, and the whole notion that the essence of the good life resides precisely in its abundance and in a casually spendthrift approach to everything, is going to have to be revalued. There’s no question about that.
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
James Baldwin | Giovanni’s Room