Which Iaccoca’s Dodge/Chrysler drove the Caravan thru, pulling behind it the long train of every No-M.P.G.-Limit, low-knuckles, high-rages, abuse-driving SUV you ever saw come down the pike. … and roar at you out of the TVscreen dream.

Many venerable and virtuous old-time good-ride designs in nostalgia, have been ‘mergered’ away to the oblivion of mass-production mediocrity monopoly.

Many creative thrills await drivers of designs toward the future.

There’s only so much oil in the ground, in the ground.
When it’s gone there’ll be no more around, no more around.
… Can’t get loose
Without that juice. … then.
Evolution is onward in electric juice, now.

Although not a hag, I do go back to the day when not only Nash and Hudson, but Packard and Crosley and Kaiser/Fraser were still around, and when I got to LA, the Valhalla of car culture, the cement had scarcely set on the last stretch of the Santa Monica Freeway. Evil it may have been, but there was nothing like blasting along with the top down and 93 KHJ on the radio, headed West with the russet air of downtown LA receding behind you. Ask Randy Newman if you don’t believe me.

For those of you whose haggery doesn’t extend back that far, here’s why:

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“… people no longer share public space, but rather fear it.”
Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom, exactly! In the (1946) beginning was the A-bomb, and The Bomb was fear, and fear was The Bomb.

Then they got to drilling oil offshore, in the water. The world’s only two off-coast shallows (first feasible), with petroleum bonanza, were off Louisiana and off Vietnam. So Vietnam War was for oil. See SCORPION.

After that, then IKE said: Build the Interstate System so a Commander could move a tank armada from S.F. to N.Y. like I had to do slowly; but after this do it quicker, like they did on that Autobahn thingie I saw in Germany — make US one of them.
And IKE said: Be afraid of TWO enemies — the Military Industrial Complex, AND the Scientific Technical Elite.
And IKE said: Fear gonna getcha.

The media’s only part of Influence across it all, (1946-2009), and the Power of the media, is what the CIA tells them. to say. THE CIA AND THE MEDIA, BY CARL BERNSTEIN, Rolling Stone 1977.

The ‘dollar-bill money’ part (of Influence, Power), started earlier, in 1910 (inception) – 1914 (instatement). Secrets of the Federal Reserve, by Eustace Mullins, 1983 — The history, organization and controlling interests behind the Federal Reserve. A privately owned operation with a monopoly on the money supply, which works like this: When they print $100-bill and loan it to the US Govt to put in circulation, the US Govt has to return (pay back) the $100-bill PLUS $7 (+/-) interest. per year. To get that $7 interest to pay back, the Fed prints seven $1-bills and loans it to the US Govt, to pay off the interest to the Fed on the $100-bill, and then the US Govt has to pay back the seven $1-bills loan … plus 7% interest. per year. You can see where this is going, and yes, that’s where it went, and here we are, there.

So it turns out that the guy — the One and Only — whose father owned 1 share (for son to inherit) of the private Fed.Reserve; is the same guy — One and Only — who ‘innovated’ the SCORPION and went around the world slurping up petroleum; is the same guy — One and Only — who directs massmind Intelligence by fear, (think: everything you know) by being King of the CIA, with his 1947-2009 membership, and with his name festooned on the front of Headquarters bldg. ever since “The cornerstone was laid … [by the One and Only], on 1 November 1985.”

Is the same One-and-Only guy who propped his ventriloquist-dummy son in The Fright House to animatedly distract from his behind-the-scene stagecraft to puff up a column of smoke, (that’s right, Ol’ Man Bush masterminded (1983-2000) and made (2001) Nine-Eleven Op), grab all the oil behind the smokescreen, crash the global economy, and instigate ‘die-off’ (AIDS, anthrax, what-have-you, starvation) of about 3/4 of all humankind on the planet … mostly the Other Ones not white anglo-saxon protestant like his genes.

The One-and-Only guy fairly much premeditatedly, deliberately, psycho-pathologically did ALL the societal fearmongering monkeywrenching described, and did it quietly — which answers the question: “Why did such an historic collapse come as such a surprise?”

The only two mistakes that One-and-Only guy’s MASTERacistPLAN forgot to figure on are: the Internet, and Global Climate Crisis.

He also likely figured there was going to be more oil left, but all the oil on Earth depletes near to Empty.

Our only ‘economic recovery’ is by identifying how/who crashed the present economy (1910-2009) deliberately, on purpose, and then design a global Reformation and build a new Economy.

Otherwise — if we squabble and bicker and fight amongst ourselves — then our future looks like ‘nations’ break down into survivalist tribes inhabiting geographical watersheds.

It’s really possible to see it all if you look with the eyes of some One-and-Only person who was both Prex of USA and King of CIA. And mix well with studied scoops of history’s details.

… such as how people behave when we fear.