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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.

James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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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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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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People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.
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The Long Emergency will be chiefly characterized as a time out from technology. It could plunge us into a dark age of superstition. My guess is that we will lose a lot of knowledge and skill. But I also believe the human race desperately needs this time out.
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Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.
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The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
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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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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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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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The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.
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I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.
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When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
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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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It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
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The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.
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Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.
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America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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Motion is a great tranquilizer.
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