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Requiem for Detroit

- James Howard Kunstler -

Kunstler opens his article by describing his experiences in a bankrupt and decayed Detroit during a drive there. He doesn't give a reason for the mess. It just is. But it is "fitting" he says because:

"...Detroit is the first great American city to officially bite the dust, because it produced the means of America’s suicidal destruction: the automobile."

Now he gives his reason for Detroit's downfall -- the automobile allowed people the freedom to move to suburbia, leaving Detroit to decay. And this is going to happen everywhere: "What happened to Detroit will come to all the other great American metroplexes in time..." But Kunstler expands his thesis: it's not just the automobile but "Finally, what we’ll be left with is a tremendous continental-sized vista of waste and desolation, the end product of this technological thrill ride called Modernity." So it ALL of technology that is to blame.

And the solution? "It’s hard to find redemption in this story, unless it’s a world made by hand, with all its implications for a return to human-ness." I always wonder what Kunstler means by 'a world made by hand.' Does he mean only those things that humans can fashion with their bare hands without tools? So we can't make tools that make tools??? Very confusing.

Again, it's not government taxation, or the Federal Reserve, or government social programs that destroy individual initiative, or government education that instills socialist philosophy -- no, none of that, but merely that individual humans make things they shouldn't, or things a committee thinks we shouldn't. Kunstler has no issue with government edicts and controls --only that those controls don't go far enough.

In his final slap against modern civilization, he says: "...but with crude oil at $108-a-barrel this morning, a smack upside America’s thick-boned head is probably not far from landing." You see we are in a peak oil situation. When oil runs out, the auto is dead, and suburbia will wither and die. The problem is that thesis is false. We will not run out of oil. Just yesterday possibly the greatest oil discovery in 50 years was discovered in Australia -- more oil there than under the sands of Saudi Arabia.

Here's the story: http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-biggest-oil-discovery-in-50-years/

I call it the Requiem for Peak Oil.

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Beginning of the headline :I was in Detroit in 1990 — not my first time — poking around to get a deeper feel for the place so I could write a chapter about it in The Geography of Nowhere. At mid-day, I was driving on one of the great avenues that radiates out of the old Beaux Arts fan of streets that emanates from the Grand Circus at the heart of downtown — Woodward or Cass or Gratiot, I forget... Read More

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