In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:
- The sorry state of the US political system
- From Covid to Epstein: can our “leaders” bungle even worse?
- Why Re-localization is the answer, whether we want it or not
- Why we’re never returning to “normal” as we knew it
Jim Kunstler returns to the program to report the latest view through is “Long Emergency” lens.
It’s a little scary: many of the trends he’s long been predicting have been suddenly accelerated by the events of 2020. Particularly his warnings that our urban & suburban lifestyle of mega-marts, McMansions and food deserts were going to start failing us, resulting in flight to rural areas.
As Jim explains here, re-localization of our economy and social networks is going to be the way of the future — whether we choose it, or reality forces it upon us:
Many, many people in this country are not only living paycheck to paycheck, but they’re living in places that are not going to be doing too well in the future. They’re going to be very disorderly. They may have problems with their food supply. A lot of these people have lost their livelihoods as well as their weekly paycheck. When you lose your livelihood that means you have no prospect for quite a ways out for even getting a paycheck. I can see a very desperate situation ahead.
by wotthecurtains