"Survivor". What an appropriate form of mindless entertainment with which to distract the enslaved masses of today...who live by the new credo: "Give me convenience or give me death!" (as they click the TV remote and reach for the garlic dip)

For an excellent book which will back up much of what Donuel is saying, read "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartmann (check spelling on that name...I may not have it quite right).

If the controllers at the top had the will to actually do something positive about the situation, much could have been done already to reduce our dependence on oil and to find alternate sources of power, while adopting far more realistic lifestyles....but apparently they would rather just keep making a whole lot of money and arming themselves to the teeth and killing people in poor countries...and skyscrapers. This indicates to me that the value they place on the lives of ordinary people is nil.