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All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor

- James Howard Kunstler -

So Kunstler hates the Superbowl, "..the vicious animal spirits emanating from that spectacle.."

Of course he fails to mention the obvious: that humans have played sports probably since Homo erectus began throwing bananas for long passes. So it's not sports that he hates (he can't be that much of a fool). No, it's man's technology, the innovative spirit, even the courageous spirit.

The beauty of a new automobile and the audactiy to proudly flaunt it is what rankles the Kunstlers of the world. He's right out of ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand: a kind of Mouch-like mouseman resentful of anyone with a larger piece of cheese.

I liked that Chevy tongue-in-cheek end of the world commercial. Man emerging from the wreckage unfazed, with a ready to try again attitude -- just what Kunstler hates. You see, Man, according to Kunstler should dispise his creative mind and return to the natural world of chasing mammoths, gnawing on bones, and scraping hides with obisidian blades (all made by hand of course).

Why was he watching the Superbowl anyway?

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Beginning of the headline :A Martian psychoanalyst observing the USSuperbowl on TV would be shocked by the vicious animal spirits emanating from that spectacle, starting with the triumphal trumpet blasts borrowed straight from the old 1950s Hollywood epic movies echoing the pridefulmis-steps of ancient Rome, along with the by-now clichéd CGI trick in the opening credits of gleaming metallic heraldic insignia spun into a military cordon of stars so as to protect the tender collective ego of this anxious nation... Read More

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