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The American public is hooked on gasoline and corn. It's bad public policy (insofar as public support is concerned) to let these things get too expensive because everyone is so goddamn used to it. If the price on either of these things go up, causing the price of other things to rise, the political pressure from the public will be difficult to weather.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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