Posthuman Blues

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia



This presentation made me want to cheer. Kunstler gets it.

A few money quotes:

"We can't overestimate the amount of despair we are generating with places like this."

"The salient problem about this is that these are places that are not worth caring about."

"The public realm has to inform us not only where we are geographically but where we are in our culture."

"We are entering an ethical period of change in the world and certainly in America, the period that will be characterized by the end of the cheap oil era."

"We are going to have to do everything very differently, and America's not prepared. We are sleepwalking into the future."

(Hat tip: Communist Robot.)