The New Abnormal | James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

May 20, 2013

The collective state of mind in the USA these days may be even more peculiar than what went on in Germany in the early 1930s, when the Nazis were freely elected to lead the country and reconstructed the battered national psyche into a superman cult that soon beat a path to mass death and ruin.

America has its own way of going crazy. We don't goose-step to tragedy; we coalesce into an insane clown posse and stumble into it by pratfall -- juggaloes dancing backwards off the cliff edge.

We've been softened up and made extra-stupid on a 60-year-long diet of TV and kreme-filled donuts. Instead of a "master race," our political fantasies revolve around a master wish -- to get something for nothing. Want to feel good about yourself? Smoke some crank. Want to become economically secure? Buy a Powerball ticket or drive to the local casino. Want political esteem? Plug a flag pin into your lapel. Want status? Borrow free money from the Federal Reserve at zero interest and arbitrage it into massive earnings for your primary dealer bank. All these behaviors are the consequence of a culture that elevated advertising to such a high social good, it ended up drowning in its own manufactured bullshit.

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[ErikJ]

1. The fossil experts like T Boone Pickens say we have 100 yrs of Natural Gas

in the US but that could be very optimistic too. And then if fracking is found to be too dangerous it could be much less.
We need to go full bore solar and wind NOW.

[kristopher]

2. I see the degree of cynicism as extreme, but kudos for the imagery.

"We don't goose-step to tragedy; we coalesce into an insane clown posse and stumble into it by pratfall -- juggaloes dancing backwards off the cliff edge"

[reusrename]

3. That's true, no need for defeatism.

There has to be way off this rock.