A Friendly Chat with James Kunstler About the Collapse of Western Society

[DeadEyeMcGoo]

In this interview, conducted by Vice.com, the author of The Long Emergency discusses what the next 20 years may look like. He makes some valid and frightening points.

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-quick-breakdown-of-the-collapse-of-western-society

But what about his thoughts on the collapse of the airlines? So much business is done by people jumping on planes that it seems unlikely that flight would exist only for elites. Isn't it more likely that the costs of flights will continue to sky rocket?

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[Stomper]

You say in Too Much Magic that, “the most conspicuous feature of these times is our inability to construct a coherent consensus about what is happening to us and what we’re going to do about it.” You say that this has led to a rise in conspiracy theorists, apocalyptic occultists, and wishful thinking. How do we bolster a coherent consensus—or is one even possible?


It's increasingly difficult to forge a reality-based consensus, because the more desperate people become and the deeper the socio-economic hardship, the more people turn to delusional beliefs, wishful thinking, scapegoating, and the supernatural. Once that happens, it probably requires an exogenous shock or a war or a great calamity to clear the collective imagination. That's what happened to Germany around 1945. They got their heads back on straight after the horrendous Hitler interlude. Millions killed, of course, and much of the capital infrastructure of the nation wrecked.

This, right here....

 

[U201491]

This, right here....

Its coming like a Japanese bullet train.

 

[erudne]

One point, the US is now the world's leading producer of oil
Another point:
This man is calling for the NWO and Communism to "fix America" by moving towards European Socity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmmxFxKiSAY