Lighting the Fuse | James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

June 10, 2013

At first glance, the growth of the super snooper state revealed this weekend -- like one of those giant, hidden funguses that spreads for miles under the forests of upper Michigan -- is a striking discovery.

But I maintain that there is an inverse correlation between the technical abilities of the government to harvest data and their competence to use it for anything. The salient trend in our government is to become more inept, ineffectual, impotent, and feckless, no matter how big the compost heaps of sheer information it manages to pile up.

For spying on your own citizens, the Nazis and the Soviets were way ahead of us using technology no more elegant than phone bugs and filing cabinets. Our immersive techno-narcissism vests too much awe in computer magic itself. What would hurt much more -- and work much better -- is if Americans become a nation of snitches. That’s a possibility, of course, but I attach a low percentage to it because it requires a respect for authority that is just absent here now, and has been eroding steadily for decades, really ever since Jack Kennedy was gunned down.

Ironically, Barack Obama got where he did because he pretended to be the reincarnation of JFK -- a young, dynamic change agent -- and it took years to discover that he was a mere bundle of platitudes wrapped in a banana leaf of good intentions, stamped with a sell-by date that, alas, has now passed. His piled-up troubles seem more a matter of inattention than intent -- especially his failure to apply the rule of law in banking -- and his recent televised attempts to explain himself give off the demoralized vibe of somebody just sadly going through the motions.

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