Another Essay from the WorldWideWeb:
This one comes from James Howard Kunstler, author of the Long Emergency and the Clusterfuck Nation blog.
The Center does Not Hold… But Neither Does the Floor
” The great muddlement out there, this inability to form a coherent consensus about what’s happening, is especially frightening when, as is the case today, even the intelligent elites appear clueless or patently dishonest, in any case unreliable, in their relations with reality. President Obama, for instance – a charming, articulate man, with a winning smile, pectorals like Kansas City strip steaks, and a mandate for “change” – who speaks incessantly and implausibly of “the recovery” when all the economic vital signs tell a different story except for some obviously manipulated stock market indexes. You hear this enough times and you can’t help but regard it as lying, and even if it is lying ostensibly for the good of the nation, it is still lying about what is actually going on and does much harm to the project of building a coherent consensus… The lying spreads downward from the White House and broadly across the fruited plain and the corporate office landscape and through the campuses and the editorial floors and the suites of absolutely everyone in charge of everything until all leadership in every field of endeavor has been given permission to speak untruth and to reinforce each others lies and illusions… How dysfunctional is our nation? These days, we lie to ourselves perhaps as badly the Soviets did, and in a worse way, because where information is concerned we really are a freer people than they were, so our failure is far less excusable, far more disgraceful… “
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Quite a long article, but well written, I enjoyed it and definitely recommend it as worth reading. Where are we going economically in 2010? I think this pretty much sums it up, It is what I am betting is coming down the road at us. Where the USA goes, we will follow.
Actually, have a read of some of his other posting at his blog too. Some very good writing.
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