Reply #6: This trivializes it [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

In a generation or so, our middle-class hipster hatred of Wal-Mart, suburbia, SUVs and bad architecture will seem like the 1950s panic over comic books and Rock-n-Roll.

I liked Kunstler's writings, and I liked the DVD, too, but they seem to trivialize the problem. What care I if Wal-Mart goes belly-up? I can take my cold comfort in mocking the death of ugly architecture and Suburbia while I'm watching the broadcasts (on a mass-produced $5 HDTV) of the die-off of four billion of my fellow human beings, from my humble abode in one of the National Emergency Management Administration's tent cities ... as the snow begins to fall ... on Independence Day, 2041.

Or, we can start right now to figure out how to get through the end of cheap energy. But I'm placing my bets living out my Golden Years in a tent.

--bkl