[KaiserJeep]

In the midst of all this wide-ranging thrashing and conflict on a variety of topics, a basic fact has been overlooked.

I have not read most of what Kunstler has written. In fact I read the first volume of his World Made By Hand fiction, which I found is unoriginal and derivative. However, I carry around the electronic verion of his most famous work, which is the book The Long Emergency. In case it escaped your notice, we are living this scenario today. Parts of the World are in collapse, refugees abound, China and India are ascendant, and Climate Change is rampant and unchecked.

He nailed it, in 2005, fourteen years ago.

[Plantagenet]

In the midst of all this wide-ranging thrashing and conflict on a variety of topics, a basic fact has been overlooked.

I have not read most of what Kunstler has written. In fact I read the first volume of his World Made By Hand fiction, which I found is unoriginal and derivative. However, I carry around the electronic verion of his most famous work, which is the book The Long Emergency. In case it escaped your notice, we are living this scenario today. Parts of the World are in collapse, refugees abound, China and India are ascendant, and Climate Change is rampant and unchecked.

He nailed it, in 2005, fourteen years ago.

Yup. Thats 100% right, KJ.

Kunstler is engaged in social and cultural criticism. Sometimes I agree with him and sometimes I don't but he is usually interesting which is all I ask from a writer.

Kunstler doesn't buy into the Ds-are-good-Rs-are-bad meme which dominates the mainstream media and which the boobs who get all their news from the boob tube are so enthralled with these days. Kunstler is more interested in the longer term cultural changes occurring in America, which he see as mainly destructive to our society.

CHEERS!

[asg70]

Kunstler who is a cynic who is only interested in things to criticize. He simply criticizes for the sake of being anti-establishment. He has nothing constructive to say.

"Kunstler thinks there will be some kind of "blowback" on the Ds"

He also thought the world would end from Y2K. So why should I give a damn what he thinks?