the unraveling

Clusterfuck Nation

I always enjoy Kunstler… the Long Emergency was a frighteningly good read. Well researched and worth checking out if you have not already.

When historians glance back at 2007 through the haze of their coal-fired stoves, they will mark this year as the onset of the Long Emergency – or whatever they choose to call the unraveling of industrial economies and the complex systems that constituted them.

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/

red sun rising

no, not San Diego… this is the brave new world at the eastern edge of your map.

The massive engine of industrial production that is birthing the world’s fastest growing economy is a dirty machine.

It would be easy to pen a tirade about the evils of capitalism and to write China off as another casualty of Western Market Imperialism, but to be honest I didn’t see it like that at all. They have discovered a way to turn the American Dream inside out… a loophole that allows them to sell you everything you think you need, in turn creating the wealth they need to turn their historically impoverished millions into a 21st century superpower. Whether they succeed or not remains to be seen - the sheer number of people makes environmental collapse a real possibility, and one thing I did not find in the Chinese was any awareness of the environment. However you could go back 30 years and you’d find the same thing in America.

The world is an interesting place… where do we go from here?

the assassination project

all things must end.even good things.this is what i like to call “Observations on the Fall of an Empire”. The end of the Age of Reason.There are wolves at the door.Also, there is new music from the assassination project .Here it is.Enjoy. And Welcome.