Editor,
As Dane Roberts correctly summarized
in his column Tuesday,
you don't know what you've got till
it's gone, so you should appreciate
what you have before it goes the
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way of subsistence agriculture and
flared trousers.
A worthwhile, if hackneyed,
piece of advice. As an example of
how he is going to start appreciating
the present, Dane envisions the
all-too-possible scenario of a major
fuel crisis, which would render the
road trip a thing of the past.
His contribution to this problem?
A long and pointless road trip.
Is this really a good way to illustrate
"nowstalgia," particularly as the column
was published not more than
24 hours after George Bush made
a speech urging his people to cut
down on their fuel consumption?
The shortage of oil in the world is
not and will not be caused by terrorists
blowing up oil refineries - it is in
a large part a result of people in the
western world refusing to take individual
responsibility for a collective
problem, and continuing to drive
huge cars on pointless journeys.
Dane is pulling himself out of an
unhealthy regard for the past and
into an unhealthy disregard for the
future.
Matt Whitaker
UNM student
