Ayoob wrote:I can't believe it, but it looks like Kunstler has turned some brand- new and frightening ground in his column. This week he compares the US government (and white Southerners) with the Nazis! Yes, the very same Nazis that incinerated millions of Jews, he makes a direct comparison and draws a line connecting the Nazis with the American people! I had never thought of it before... it must be a brave thing to make accusations like that.
EndOfGrowth wrote:"You never know, there might be a CORN PONE HITLER out there waiting to make his (or her) entrance!"
Sounds like he's waking up to encroaching NWO fascism which he has been denying it's existence for years because he's "allergic to conspiracy theories"
Kunstler is Jewish btw.
efarmer wrote:I guess I won't send him a rosary for Christmas again nor share my deep seated fears
of potato fungus creating a diaspora for our people again. Thanks for saving me from
embarrassing myself with my ignorance Ayoob.
EndOfGrowth wrote:"You never know, there might be a CORN PONE HITLER out there waiting to make his (or her) entrance!"
Sounds like he's waking up to encroaching NWO fascism which he has been denying it's existence for years because he's "allergic to conspiracy theories"
Kunstler is Jewish btw.
Ayoob wrote:I know he's Jewish, I think that's where the Nazi fetish comes from.
By James Howard Kunstler
on April 25, 2010 1:53 PM
George W. Bush was onto something in the fall of 2008 when he remarked apropos of the Lehman collapse: "...this sucker could go down."
It's my serene conviction, by the way, that this sucker actually is going down, right now, even as I clatter away at the keys -- perhaps in slow motion, so that not many other bystanders have noticed yet, and the few who have noticed are mostly too crosseyed with nausea to speak. * * *
... "Going down" will mean a society with no money and an infrastructure for daily life that requires gobs of money to run, and a populace too dazed, confused, and inflamed to do anything useful in the way of organizing new infrastructures for daily life for their new circumstances. In retrospect, the Great Depression of the 1930s will look like "The Philadelphia Story" compared to what we wake up to ten years from now. * * *
... This sucker is going down because the train of bankruptcies underway has a remorseless self-reinforcing power to provoke more and more bankruptcies at every stop along the line as every promise to pay is welshed on. The mortgages will not be paid and securities will not pay their investors and the banks will choke on the bad paper promises in their vaults and the pension funds will not pay their beneficiaries and the states and counties and municipalities will go broke and not pay their employees and creditors, and the federal government will not be able to "print" new money in sufficient quantities fast enough to compensate for all the money not being paid up-and-down the line... and one morning we will wake up and discover that all those promises to pay were sham promises based on no productive activity whatsoever... and that will be a sad day. Perhaps the Dow Jones Industrial Average will hit 35,000 on that day. Nothing can stop this chain of bankruptcy. It's already baked in the cake. * * *
... When this sucker goes down, our primary task will be reorganizing American life on a much more local and de-complexified basis. ... trillions in credit default swaps are ticking away like dirty bombs. Greece is going down, with Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and the UK standing by to go next. Nobody can pay their bills. Before long, the old folks won't get their checks. Then the poor folks. Lately, I wonder if there will even be an election six months from now.
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... When this sucker goes down, our primary task will be reorganizing American life on a much more local and de-complexified basis
Ludi wrote:... When this sucker goes down, our primary task will be reorganizing American life on a much more local and de-complexified basis
Might want to start NOW, actually. Why wait?
mos6507 wrote:Because we'd have to talk to our neighbors instead of hang out here all day.
mcgowanjm wrote:TheDude wrote:eastbay wrote:Ayoob wrote:If you follow his column back to right around the 9/11 attacks, he was a proponent of complete Arab genocide.
Let's not forget he was a very vocal supporter of the Iraq War (even writing this in his books) and still supports the US military occupation of Iraq.
That's all I remember him saying, that he was a supporter of preemptive war, nothing about wanting to incinerate Arabs en masse. This latest piece is just about the potential of Americans to "go crazy" under the onslaught of economic ruin, ala other nations in history and specifically Germany, whose experience is a matter of record - feel free to insist this could never happen in the USA if you want to wallow in naivety.Guy's a nut-job so one can generally assume a position opposite whatever he says and be on the proper side.
Again, if you think his conclusions about the ramifications of an energy shortfall are in error that's one thing, but he's not a borderline mental case like David Icke.
TheDude is correct. For some reason( )
Kunstler has blinders on with 9/11/ME/Israel/War issues.
Like light bending around a dwarf star.
But as long as he sticks to Happy Motoring/Stranded Investments/
Failed Sprawl/Infrastructure/PoliticalDoomoftheOnePartyState he's correct
Serial_Worrier wrote:The guy's a nutburger but at least he supports Israel.
Kunstler wrote:In the background, of course, is an economy just barely holding together with political baling wire and duct tape. It has very poor prospects for continuing in the way it was designed to run, on cheap oil and revolving debt. The upshot is an economy now destined for permanent contraction, and nobody has a plan for managing that contraction -- which will include awful failures in food production, in disintegrating water systems, electric grids, roadway systems, schools... really anything that requires ongoing public investment. It includes a financial system that cannot come up with capital deployable for productive purpose, or currencies that can be relied on to hold value, or markets that function without interference.
A third possibility is he just doesn't want to risk alienating himself from his large and ever growing peaker fan base.
an extremely complicated, integrated and efficient technological marvel designed to fleece the masses of their wealth in a very short period of time. It is global in scope.
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