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An Odd Rumination

- James Howard Kunstler -

Re the tsunami, Kunstler said, "...The world is telling us to cut it out or it is going to kick our upright bipedal asses." In other words, nature is pissed at us for the creation of technology. Mother Nature, apparently the god Gaia, is getting her revenge for the 'destruction' of 'her' natural resources. So, I guess, we ought to go back to that 'world made by hand.' Kunstler has this vague sense (a bit of undigested beef?) of Japan secretly wishing to return their simple life of centuries ago. Yes, I guess they wish to return to those times of endless civil wars, war lord against war lord, and each individual in his or her place. Really?

Balderdash! A return to the nature that Kunstler seems to be pushing would entail the abandonment of antibiotic production, modern food growth and development, not to mention the thousands of other life saving and enhancing technologies, a return to that world when epidemics (curable today) killed tens of thousands if not millions. Make no mistake about it. The natural world was pissed at us and punished Japan. Whose next?

Best, according to Kunstler, is to abandon it all and live wild and free in the woods -- I can almost hear Tiny Tim now cavorting in the tulips. But wait...wouldn't Gaia be angry and want to "kick our uright bipedal asses" if we even dared to lop off a few branches of a tree for a lean-to? She might. We'd have to go the Tree Allocation Committee first (headed by Kunstler I suppose) and place our request. They would confer in righteous robes and, in a month or so, grant us the great favor of a response in the flowerly language Kunstler writes in (he must be paid by the word.)

In Kunstler's ideal world, one ought to just lie on the ground (disturbing nothing a la the Jains of India) mouth open, and wait upon the benificence of Nature to toss us a crumb or two. But we're not going back to a world made by hand, with screaming Samurais' wielding swords and taking heads, despite the Kunstlers of the world -- but will remain in a world made by machines correcting our mistakes as best we can.

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