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>Let's All Go Medieval  - James Howard Kunstler - 
So Kunstler says today, "Japan's only good choice is to go medieval, that is, to give up on the rather hopeless 150-year-long project of being an industrial-technocratic modern super-state, and go back to being an island of a beautiful artistic hand-made culture." An earlier article of his waxed poetical about the Japanese returning to the glory days of the Samurai.
And not only Japan, but the world as well, he adds: "My own opinion is that we're all going medieval sooner rather than later and the big remaining question is how much of a mess we'll make on the journey to it."

Kunstler may advocate a return to a world made by hand all he wants, but the guy runs to the nearest modern industrial hospital when one of his organs misfires -- as he has often regaled us of his sundry ills. Talk about spitting in the face of your benefactors.

Go medieval? Serfs, plagues, starvation?

No thanks.







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