Wed 13 May 2009
a great paragraph (if run-on sentence)
Posted by benadair under links, sustainability
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I’ve been feeling a little strange lately. It’s not exactly schadenfreude, but something has got me wondering, “Really? Is this it?”
The optimism of the Administration, the Networks, even formerly cynical friends getting in on the act. I mean, this “Great Recession,” or whatever you wanna call it, it’s supposed to be a game changer, right?
But here we are. Apparently on the mend.
Not so fast, says Jim Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency.
The Great Wish across America is to resume the life of comfort-and-convenience that seemed so nirvana-like just a few short years ago, when the very constellations of the heavens might have been renamed after heroic Atlanta realtors and Connecticut hedge fund warriors, and the boomer portfolios groaned with earnings, and millions of graying corporate salary mules dreamed of their approaching retirement to a satori of golf and Viagra, and the interior decorators grew so rich installing granite countertops that they could buy their own houses in the East Hampton, and every microcephalic parking valet in Las Vegas qualified for a bucket full of Ninja mortgages, and Lloyd Blankfein could dream of divorcing his wife to marry his cappuccino machine.
From his latest blog post, “Decoupling from Reality.” Which was actually the second time today that I ran into the word, “decoupling.” Funny.
