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The Trigger | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust
Dec. 29, 2014
The futility of politics in America these days has driven the public into exactly the dream-state of zombie blood-lust depicted in so many popular video fantasies, a nightmare of decay, powerlessness, and degeneracy matching the actual condition of a disintegrating polity that has lost collective consciousness and seeks only to infect the dwindling numbers of the still-sentient.
Almost nobody in this country believes we can manage our affairs anymore.
Well, can we? One of the hallmarks of an imploding culture is that people lose a sense of consequence. Things just seem to happen and unhappen, and nobody really cares about chains of decision and event. Anything goes and nothing matters.
One reason this is happening to us is that we allowed reality to be divorced from truth. Karl Rove wasnt kidding back in the Bush-2 days when he quipped that we create our own reality. The part old Karl left out is that theres a price for doing that. In the short run, it allows you to pretend that you have superpowers and can act in defiance of the way things really are. In the longer run, your view of the world comports so poorly with the facts of the world that things stop working.
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The Trigger | James Howard Kunstler (Original Post)
Tace
Dec 2014
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(6,960 posts)1. Kunstler at his curmudgeonly best.
I don't always agree with him, but I like his provocative style and his eagerness to 'question authority', challenge conventional wisdom and take pokes at the 'liberal' establishment.
Tace
(6,800 posts)2. I Really Like The Lead Sentence
I don't always agree with him, either. But, sometimes he can turn a phrase. --Tace : )
Another year of zombie shuffle then?
Guy has been pretty downbeat for years. Gotta be tiring.