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>Paths of Folly  - James Howard Kunstler - 
Nothing more full of folly than an article by James Howard Kunstler -- the back to nature, live in a cave, use leaves for toilet paper guy.

Nothing is more full of folly than those who ignore facts -- like a guy who panics and jumps overboard into a raging sea when some drunks jokingly tell him the ship is sinking. The drunks in this case are those who have mistakenly, or for political reasons, accepted the premise of Peak Oil -- despite all evidence to the contrary. And so Kunstler is bobbing in the ocean shaking his fist and telling the Japanese they ought to return to their Samuari traditions...to the laughter of those looking down from the railing.

But the sad thing is that Kunstler is not alone in the water.


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Beginning of the headline :Societies periodically go insane. Fallacious memes sweep through a frightened and confused populace and bad things happen, bad choices get made. Two bad ideas in particular infect the American thought-o-sphere these days: 1) that non-cheap oil can keep all the rackets of consumerism going; 2) that we can offset all the quandaries of non-cheap oil with accounting fraud and debt creation... Read More
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