Kunstler: The human race has known catastrophe before and come through it. There's some credible opinion that "this time it's different" but who really knows?

The planet is suffering from human population overshoot. We're way beyond "carrying capacity."

To evangelize a bit myself, if such a concept as "an offense in the sight of God" has any meaning, then the way we conduct ourselves in this land is surely the epitome of it - though this is hardly an advertisement for competing religions, who are well-supplied with morons, too. Entropy is a harsh mistress. In the immediate offing: a contest for the table scraps of the 20th century.

SHOOT: James Howard Kunstler fires another salvo of intuitive sense and sensibility at the mobs or morons out there.

clipped from kunstler.com In the meantime, human reproduction rates are also greatly increasing the supply of idiots relative to resources, and that is especially problematic in the USA, where idiots rule the culture and polity.       The cocoon of normality prevents us from appreciating how peculiar and special recent times have been in this country. We suppose, tautologically, that because things have always seemed the way they are, that they always have been the way they seem.  The collective human imagination is a treacherous place.  I'm fascinated by the dominion of moron culture in the USA, in everything from the way we inhabit the landscape - the fiasco of suburbia - to the way we feed ourselves - an endless megatonnage of microwaved Velveeta and corn byproducts - along with the popular entertainment offerings of Reality TV, the Nascar ovals, and the gigantic evangelical church shows beloved in the Heartland.