as an instrument
of disempowerment
oil has been spectacularly effective
in removing the levers of power
from the reach of the populace.
"no matter how many

people take to the streets
in massive marches",
writes roy scranton,
"they cannot put their hands on the real flows of power,
because they do not help to produce it.
they only consume."

amitav ghosh

(almost like ghost)  

the great derangement.

  in other words, the public sphere, where politics is performed, has been largely emptied
 of content, in terms of the exercise of power.

weird to think of consuming power.power produces oil at the cost of life and we consume it.