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Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
Author
Environmentalist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Ridicule
Unfortunate
Ridiculous
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We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
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In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.
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The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.
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Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.
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Motion is a great tranquilizer.
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On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.
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I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.
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The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.
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We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.
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The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
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I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.
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Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.
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It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.
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Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.
James Howard Kunstler
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The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.
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Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.
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I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.
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In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.
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