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>The New Abnormal  - James Howard Kunstler - 
I've always sensed something slimly about Kunstler's articles, almost ghoulish -- a shadowy figure haunting graveyards anxiously awaiting the newly dead.

So he appears to relish in the latest specific American disaster and extrapolating it to a generalized irrational comment on American society as a whole. And when some good news appears such an American oil independence from recent discoveries, he falls all over himself to denigrate it.

He says, "The discovery will coincide with very severe changes in daily life that won't be avoidable. Everyone will be affected. Many will be impoverished and suffer real hardship. That's when the public goes apeshit and starts tearing down the house."

Severe changes? More jobs, lower gas prices, independence from international suppliers = severe changes?

Perhaps for ghouls who learn that fewer bodies will be deposited in their bailiwicks.


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Beginning of the headline :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... Read More
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