"Just a glance around the USA these days ought to nauseate the casual
observer. We have an infrastructure for everyday life that is failing in
every way imaginable. Are you disturbed by the asteroid belts of vacant
strip malls outside your town? Or the empty store fronts along your
Main Streets? What do you suppose these places will be like in ten
years when the mirage of shale oil dissolves in a mist of disappointment
and political grievance? How are Americans going to feel, do you
suppose, when gasoline just isn’t there at a price they can pay, and
they are marooned in delaminating strand-board-and-vinyl houses 23 miles
away from anything? Does the sheer immersive ugliness of the human
imprint on the American landscape not give you the shivers? ... All this is happening, incidentally, because the supposed best minds in our nation are paying no attention whatsoever to the most important
story of our lifetime: the winding down of the techno-industrial global
economy. It doesn’t really matter anymore why they don’t get it. Hubris.
Greed. Distraction. Denial. All that matters is that they can’t be
depended on and when that happens authority loses legitimacy. And when
it comes to that, all bets are off. The disintegration of Ukraine would be best understood by
Americans as a mirror of ourselves and our sclerotic republic, poised to
sink into poverty and disorder. Everything we do and say rings hollow
now. What used to be called The Establishment has run out of ways to
even pretend to save itself. We have no idea what’s next, but it’s not
going to be more of what’s been."
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