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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 11:21 AM
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JAMES KUNSTLER: Played
James Kunstler -- World News Trust

The failure to lead in this country now includes all the major fields of enterprise and resolves into a general and total failure of authority that threatens to drag us into darkness. Leaders in politics, business, the news media, science, medicine, education, and the organized religions have all failed to prepare the public for the hardships that will attend a global energy crisis supercharged by climate change, disorder in the financial markets, and almost certainly more war.

President Bush's failure to lead was obvious in his state of the union speech, and in actions that followed -- such as signing on with the continued starvation of Amtrak last week. If Mr. Bush doesn't like that crypto-private company, he could start an initiative of his own to reform and reorganize the railroad system we desperately need. So too, by the way, could Hillary Clinton or John Kerry, or any other putative Democratic leader. But they're too busy grubbing around the contribution circuits to fatten their campaign war chests.

The major news media's failure is near total, especially at the highest level of the New York Times, which gives more ink to narcissistic blather about gender identity than to the issue of how industrial civilization is going to carry on without its primary resources. The cable news networks have sunk into such mires of craven whorishness that they don't even pretend to broadcast news between eight o'clock and midnight anymore, just tabloid crime spectacles and celebutante melodramas. The Wall Street Journal has resigned from reality in order to DJ the financial sector's dangerous game of musical chairs.

I haven't heard one college president address the question of how we are going to reform education when it ceases to be a mass consumer activity and the giant campuses of the land-grant diploma mills enter their own waiting crisis of scale.

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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 12:12 PM
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1. The sad thing is that nobody wants to hear it.
Trying to speak truth to the American public is a thankless job. I think what we need is a TV series on life without oil. They could call it Life Among the Ruins.
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-13-06 12:23 PM
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2. Hey, You Know, I Think That Is A Completely Excellent Idea
Mad Max comes to mind.
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