End of the World, Long Live the World

what difference between pessimism , realism?

(note: author not scientist, sociologist or financial expert, novelist, analysis seems spot on me)

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history taking in direction , don't want hear it. we've got our hands clapped on our ears , we're shouting "kittens , puppies! kittens , puppies!" here of things we're confused about:

• we tell ourselves we're in economic recovery ... fuggeddabowdit... we've entered contraction seem permanent until reach economic re-set point comports planet can provide us... lower imagine.
• the housing sector never come ... built many houses in wrong places ... we're done building suburbia, , after while, when can no longer stand dysfunction , inconvenience, we'll done living in stuff that's there... suburban dynamic increasingly fails, disappointment may turn fury. result of leaders not telling public truth many many years.
• more higher education not going bring turbo-charged consumer economy. not need more office gerbils... that's going in opposite direction too... center of economic life in america food production , other agricultural activities... need more farmers .. , more human laborers working in fields ...
• we're not going "tech" our way through array of mega-problems face, in particular energy predicament. american mind-space today clogged cargo-cult fantasies electric cars, nano-manufacturing, , "information" technology allow trajectory of progress continue have known , loved it. too, end of suburbia, lead vast disappointment...

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nice if correct disorders in collective conversion call "politics," going see ever greater divergence reality. moment, leadership in america has drunk kool-aid, of lacks conviction , competence, none of wants enter actual future.
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j. h. kunstler's rose colored glasses

think? can climb out of mess in , in 60s or 90s, or free ride on us? @ point need start dragging our culture around face wall may have run against? walt kelly's opossum right enemy is?

 

i think it's silly notion @ past times , expect emulate them.

 

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