This week I sit down with author and columnist James Howard Kunstler to break down the strange activity of the Davos Crowd and their Bond-villian-like plans to remake the world and make it safe of commies and eugenics.
From bitcoin to the dairy farmers in upstate New York, James and I discuss the deurbanization trend that’s occurring as a result of this idiocy and the mistakes a lot of folks are making moving to the suburbs.
Show Notes:
James Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency, Too Much Magic, The Geography of Nowhere, the World Made By Hand novels, and more than a dozen other books. He lives in Washington County, New York.
James’ Website
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Too much magic
Jim is always interesting to listen to and writes entertaining articles. I believe he is genuinely a good person in pursuit of truth. The only problem is he is wrong A LOT (just take a look at his forecasts heading up to the last election and beyond for example) and his thinking seems to be chronically depressed. He fully exemplifies glass-half-empty guy.
Predicting future calamities must be a tough business to be in, but he is persistent…I will give him that. But he is so married to his theories, it seems he can’t conceive of alternative possibilities at this point. He also never seems to take into consideration human tenacity, adaptability, and intelligence to come up with creative solutions — usually the bigger the problem, the more impactful the solution!
I will grant some of his analysis regarding waste, poor planning, mal-investments, and excesses is very reasonable, but to conclude that society is going to take a massive haircut due to this misses the point. The sources and causes of these things are WHAT IS HOLDING US BACK. When the distributed, networked, hyper-connected, permission-less moneyed, uncensored society shrugs off the bad economics and top-down practices of the past, isn’t it just as possible there will be an explosion of prosperity!?
Ultimately, it seems very ill-advised to be so extremely sure of oneself about the future. On average, things never seem to turn out as amazingly or as terribly as the extreme viewpoints forecast.
That’s one way to look at it. I think he is optimistic. Just because he thinks society as it exists today will fail; that doesn’t mean that he thinks that we’re doomed. He sees how our lives can be better after the big changes.
And he’s definitely not stuck in his thoughts, in my opinion. He’s a died in the wool liberal, hanging out today with a libertarian. The two words are pretty similar, but they are a long way apart in the US, politically.
Kunstler could see that the Democrats will run the country into the ground; and as much as there was to abhor about Trump, DJT was seeing and speaking truths that wouldn’t have otherwise seen the light of day.
He’s not afraid of the truth, and he loves our country. Oh, and he’s a really great writer.
I can relate to what you are saying. He is definitely not someone you can stick into a neat category like our minds always want to do. There is much good in what he does. I could have spent more time talking about that. I happen to disagree with many of his conclusions and predictions, but I agree he is an honorable person.
Holy mother of God a Vaccine commercial preceding the pod?!? LOL
Jim asks, (and here I paraphrase) “Isn’t it surprising that we haven’t seen any revolutionary activity against the vandals (traitors) in D.C.? No, it’s not. We have a populace that is riddled with the old, the infirm, and fear besotted. Throw the Covid psy-op into the bargain, which heavily militates against organization, and there are not conditions for revolutionary activity…yet. Wait until the jabs start to take their toll to a much greater degree than they have to date, which is considerable if one isn’t listening to the Propaganda Orgs. Those who have little to nothing to lose, lose it.
We seem to share admiration for Kunstler and contempt for Krugman, but not a belief in how badly it’s going for those you call “The Davos Crowd” – let’s review how many of their attempts to foment chaos have failed…….
Their wargamed plandemic failed to get off the ground
Uncontrolled immigration to the West has ended
The waves of violent crime are receding
Progressives and conservatives have reconciled
The climate change fraud has been exposed
Developed economies are recovering well
GDP and inflation data has credibility again
Seth Rich has justice
Epstein testified
Hillary Clinton was arrested and imprisoned for life
Assange was freed
We only have one Pope again, and he isn’t a demonic narcissistic Marxist
The US election was an exemplar of democratic acccountability
The Demonrats failed to take control of all three branches of government
Joe Biden was recognized as a corrupt and senile old man and consigned to the political wilderness
Hunter Biden is in prison
QE has ended
Price discovery has returned to bond and equity markets
Deficit spending has been recognized as out of control
AOC and her communist friends are now ignored by the media
Social media has stopped censoring the truth
Universal basic income has been recognized as impractical and all plans for it have been shelved
Bitcoin is proving immune to government interference and continues to rise
The suppression of gold and silver prices has ended
Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial took place and she is serving twenty years
They failed to install another central banker into power in Italy
The WEF have collapsed
Yes, surely no-one is going to beg such as these to impose order. They clearly can’t be trusted to tip water out of an old boot even when the instructions are written on the sole.
96 days.
Zionist at work: blames the victims for being bombed, then quickly shuts down the topic.
Look, people have their biases and James shut down the topic because it 1) wasn’t germane to our core conversation and 2) was being polite not to spark a potentially testy exchange.
Don’t always get triggered based on the social circumstances. He and I talked about this before we began recording.
I accept both your points but neither invalidate my observation. Please don’t confuse my comment with being triggered, we all have our biases as you say, and I do not like Zionists and will point out their nefarious behaviour whenever I see it, free speech permitting. Besides, personally speaking I didn’t find Mr Kunstler’s perspective on the core subjects noteworthy. By contrast, I must thank you for introducing me to Alex Mercouris who I now listen to on a daily basis.
Seriously, Jack… and I mean this with respect, playing “Find the Zionist” everywhere is not constructive. It’s as bad as the left playing “Find the Racist or Russian” every time something happens. We all have our biases and blind spots.
Look at the events of the past two weeks and tell me the Zionists are still in control of the narrative. Because from where I’m sitting they just got hammered.
Let it die, which it will, and enjoy that.
Kunstler is a weenie catastrophist who was 100 per cent fooled on PEAK OIL. Which means he don’t know shit about how the world works. A dumb ass in love with his own farts.