Denial

People ask "what is the driving force in our society/" The answer seems simple to me, perhaps too simple, "Denial," and the most obvious example is "push back," especially in our political life. It is very obvious in other areas too, for example the way that groups respond to criticism, believing that they have "answered" a charge of some kind by a baldfaced denunciation of tbe critic, a "lateral arabesque," intended to put the criticism elsewhere, perhaps off shore.

So denial is the fuel that has taken the place of gasoline as a propellant of choice. It may be time to return to thermodynamics & look at entropy as a serious malady rather then a mode of transportation. Stasis is a dangerous state of affairs, and it seems that with a reliance of dysfunction as strategy and policy we are gambling with pretty much everything. The cover up to much of this is what the well known critic & writer, Chris Hedges, calls "the empire of consumption;" but we are having more and more difficulty consuming our way out of difficulties.

* The examples of denial in our society are seemingly endless, here are a few: problems of nuclear waste, energy in/energy out
equations, eg. ethanol, religious bigotry and hypocrisy, political maneuvering instead of action, etc., ETC.