Bill Davenport writes on the show that sparked my rant about activist art. Lo and behold, this is one of those shows that tries to raise awareness without quite being able to articulate the problem, and ends up making everyone either feel victimized by some vague power structure or annoyed that they are being preached to by someone who doesn’t really understand what is going on. In the case of energy dependence, most of us are all too aware of what’s at stake, so there’s probably very little need to raise awareness of the problem. And the solution is so complex that no one has quite reached it yet, despite the scores of scientists, economists, and political theorists working on it. So what does he hope to achieve?