As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“On my way out of [Atlantic City] at quarter after seven in the morning, a young pump jockey at the gas station [...] mentioned… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality. We're not… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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