 Okay, so things are a mess. Kunstler explains that "everything looks the same." Of course he doesn't mention that living in nature, as he advocates, everything looks the same as well. Trees, rocks, squirels -- the same. Things are, according to Kunstler, downright ugly and something has to be done. Look at Walmart -- ugly, ugly, ugly. Hey, I like the way Walmart looks. I've been to 3rd world countries and seen ugly. Those people would risk death to live in a country with a Walmart and strip malls. Really, why must Kunstler's ideal of beauty be mandated for all?
So what to do? Kunstler says, "Rather, the mandates of reality will compel us to comprehensively reform and re-order all the activities of civilized life, and I think how this will occur can be stated plainly and categorically." Notice the words: "compel," "reform," re-order." Can it be that I smell an authoritarian here?
Kunstler, an authoritarian? Well, he has advocated in the past that us humans be forced out of our vehicles onto mass transit.
Is there any more evidence in this article of his Kim IL Sung proclivities? Here is a clue: he wants "...that we will return to the traditional mode of assembling human habitats, that is, integral, walkable, urban places..." Walkable? Well, suppose someone doesn't want to walk, or can't? Ah, no answer. Since in Kunstler's utopia (Dictatorship?) the ugly automobile will be banned, the question of walking will be moot. Walk, I guess, or die.
What else? I clicked on his PART II ELEMENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE and got this: "we have to downscale just about everything that supports civilized life..." I couldn't read any more because Kunstler will make you pay to see the rest of his utopian agenda. Anyway -- I guess we have to downscale just about everything that supports civilized life. No thank you Chairman Kunstler, no thank you.
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