Food for people and fuel for machines. For a society to function, these are the bare minimum a government needs to provide for its people. Every portrait of dystopia forged in Hollywood stresses that theme—not so much the government part as the requirement part—in the most destructive, macho way possible. At bottom it is about survival, subsistence and these are non-negotiable facts.  There is just no dancing around it as the US-Israel assault on Iran enters its fifth week. We