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Requiem for Detroit

- James Howard Kunstler -

JHK, you are a wordsmith. Were I half as good as you in the craft, I could supplement my meager retirement substantially (Truth be told, it wouldn't take much).

We tend to forget. NYC went bust before and got bailed out.

Cities must produce a product, an export so to say. A city must import everything. A service industry just won't generate the revenues required to pay for the massive imports and (drum roll, maestro) garbage exported needed to maintain the beast.

So goes Detroit, so goes the nation. I weep. We exported inflation and it is no longer in demand overseas.
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Jim oh Jim.
It wasn't just the cheap fuel. It was what cheap fuel granted us.
Cheap fuel was the enabler for exporting our inflation. Cheap fuel fueled our escape from the inner city confines (commuting and suburbs). Cheap fuel fueled silly notions of monorails, high speed rails and endless rock concerts to entertain the masses. Cheap fuel intoxicated us to spend our inheritance like prodigal sons.

Exporting our inflation made us wealthy beyond the imaginations of most of the world's masses. We never realized that that which goes up, will come down. An airplane's rate of climb is far less than inverse of the gravitational constant. An airplane is a man-made construct and gravity is natural.

There is a natural economy and there is a man-made construct. Natural works because it is the least entropy demanding. Man-made demands regular and usually exponential additions of energy to off-set the well above natural requirements.

We squandered our inheritance. We hired community organizers. We listened to the enlightened and flocked to countless meetings who's only purpose was to gain our vote next Tuesday. We hoped someone else would do what needed to be done and never realized they were hoping the same out of us.

To sorta quote Pogo (I don't remember it exactly enough to say "quote") from one of the first Earth Days, "I have met the enemy and it is us."

We are so screwed. I truly wish I could live in your world Jim.
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Thank you JHK. You make me think.
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And no Jim, I'm not gonna down arrow you tonight. Tonight I will let my knowledge of belief systems temper my actions. I once had beliefs and I sorely miss them even though I have since found them false. Merry 24th of July Jim. It is late even here in Alaska. Tomorrow evening or Friday, might I suggest you find someone and go dancing. Find some measure of joy and share it with someone else.

And come the week-end, a bass boat is little fun without someone else to toss some crank-bait with, share a few cold ones out the fish well and rant about the idiots that inhabit Star-ship Earth. Have a good week-end. What? You don't have four day week-ends? Uh-huh. That explains everything.

DEBT. You have my condolences.

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Début de l'article :I was in Detroit in 1990 — not my first time — poking around to get a deeper feel for the place so I could write a chapter about it in The Geography of Nowhere. At mid-day, I was driving on one of the great avenues that radiates out of the old Beaux Arts fan of streets that emanates from the Grand Circus at the heart of downtown — Woodward or Cass or Gratiot, I forget... Lire la suite

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