Futurist-Author James Howard Kunstler – Video

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01-02-2012 20:07 Warren Edward Pollock interviews and has an open talk with leading author James Howard Kunstler. We are at a cultural moment where we are incapable or understanding reality. We are in a massive cultural denial. We must be sensitive to the hardships we are moving towards so we can make better choices. We are going to be dragged kicking and screaming to our destination. Technology Narcissism and Organizational Grandiosity are both movements of denial of what resides in the future paradigm. The hallmarks are denial the inability to tell the truth to ourselves are unfortunate symptoms of our times. We have a highly integrated economy with most of our activity reliant on cheap energy availability and inputs. The public has been bombarded by propaganda aimed at the voting public but biased to vested interests trying strenuously to loot and gather other peoples money for speculation. We are entering a period where we are going to have investment capital scarcities. Investment capital will be very scarce. Its going to become impossible to develop a technological solution set. Risk in our society has been wrongly priced.. I talk about oil being the collateral of the reserve currency which requires sea empire. We just don't want to know. There is a physical world and the monetary constructs are just a construct and esoteric layer. Complex systems we depend upon will break in the future and we see that process underway. Under these stresses all our systems are destabilizing at the ...

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