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>Zeitgeist Failure  - James Howard Kunstler - 
James Howard Kunstler, man of vision, seer of verbiage, student of denunciation -- all of those accolades and more. This week he don't like Obama. No way Jose, Pablo, Francis, or any non de plume of your choosing.

The problem with being a self styled seer is, of course, the quality of one's seerness, the depth of one's vision. And with Kunstler, alas, he has revealed himself as myopic. You see he voted for Obama -- and there's the rub. The average Joe Blow, for the most part, saw through Obama's nice fitting suit, well placed teleprompter, and noticed the Totalitarian within. Kunstler did not.

But, strangely, I think he did. Is the problem really that Obama is NOT Kunstler's type of Totalitarian, not herding the minions where Kunstler thinks minions ought to be herded?

So this week I really sympathize with the guy. Obama has made a fool of many.



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Beginning of the headline :In an age of gross zeitgeist dysfunction --when untruth,delusion, and deception rule -politics is mere advertising, which is tosay surface shimmer playing on the public' s wishfulfillment fantasies. The trouble at this moment in history is that the American public's wishful fantasies are inconsistent with the circumstances that reality offers to us and the choices for action that they present... Read More
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