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Normally I enjoy reading Kunstler but his latest is a bit disappointing.
What he calls "a gross failure of leadership across the board in American life" unduly softens criticism due to PC.
What we have is a culture of gross fraud across all levels of society, and it is so extreme that the intent seems to be to force the few honest individuals left into it as a survival reflex.
Even the biggest idiots in the world can't fu*( things up this bad if they are reasonably honest.
Maybe I'm just getting bored waiting for the Potemkin village to collapse, just like watching a kitty walking around a plate of hot milk while pushing the turds under the carpet.
Bored? yes! Life's wishes meaningless. There can be only waiting, eyes transfixed on a village that doesn't exist.
Other than that, not too bad a day:)
Darn it Musashi, now you've got me thinking and I really am too busy presently for depressing things like thinking. Anyway what I am thinking is, that with the 'news of the day', about energy and resource depletion and global warming and war and everything, how is all this is effecting us as 'just people' and as a result the running of the machine.
An army can have the greatest resources, the best trained soldiers, great food (I can attest for that, at least in the Canadian Army while I was there, no stinting in quantity or quality ). Anyway they can have all this stuff and still lose if they feel from the start of battle they are destined or deserve to lose.
Short term seems to be trumping long term thinking and planning yet real awareness of the implications of the heavy problems of the day are still IMO 90% below the surface.
So Scotty, er I mean Musashi, with what enthusiasm are the boiler rooms of the nation being manned? And how long will the lights stay on?
It isn't depression, it truly is boredom. I think. LOL.
Everyone has a different nature, I'm not much of a strategist but a good tactician, the best laid plans of men and mice do not survive first contact, so I don't see a clear line of action with this slow decline, but I'm convinced that the track comes to me once the fur starts flying.
As far as the mood in the boiler rooms it seems to be quite bleak, I talk to the ex and the daughters almost every day and they don't seem to be happy campers despite being in upper income brackets. Most of the tribe that has jobs is also rumbling. It seems incomprehensible that they would stay in a game that is rigged for them to lose, but all one can do is mention it from time to time. They are not ready to live in the woods yet.
I'm fine with my very low target cross section and watch from the sidelines.
Didn't mean to imply you musashi, but as I wrote I did get the thought that the mood of the people is going to affect what is going down, just like the mood in the simpler system the stock market affects prices.
The community here that my family of 3 moved into about 8 years ago is mostly what I guess is working class, a lot descended from English miners that worked coal mines here till about 1950. The attitude towards PO is non existent and GW is just 'funny weather', so there is mainly an upbeat attitude in the older inhabitants. Not so in the youth who seem to know whats up but just don't feel any point in talking or doing anything about it. Quite a few just drifting from day to day, not bad kids just no thinking of a bright future. You know a What's the point attitude, not a healthy boredom which can stimulate one into action:)