Uhmericans - ignorance disguised as "facts"

See the comments to this post on Judge Napolitano's Facebook, along with the video, which is of an Austrian economist talking about whether we are running out of resources or not. (A misleading question, since peak anything is not the same as running out.) Those who are commenting talk about shale oil and other fantasies that will not come to fruition. Uhmericans are content to consume as much as they can, while living with the cornucopian delusion that this will be possible forever. I can't say that we don't deserve what we're going to get.

From the Archdruid's latest:

A great many of the flailings and posturings that have defined American culture from the Eighties to the present, in other words, unfolded from what Jean-Paul Sartre called “bad faith” – the unspoken awareness, however frantically denied or repressed, that the things that actually mattered were not things anyone was willing to talk about, and that the solutions everyone wanted to discuss were not actually aimed at their putative targets. The lie at the heart of that bad faith was the desperate attempt to avoid facing the implications of the plain and utterly unwelcome fact that there is no way to make a middle class American lifestyle sustainable.