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Kunstler: Merry Christmas to All
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And this solemn night a great stillness falls upon the land as the Leviathan of Washington is sent to its room to get its mind straight, and the USA gets on with collapse in earnest. There will be no visions of sugarplums for the Deep Staters as the government enters its induced coma, only premonitions of anarchy and insolvency, and perhaps some dim nostalgia for that golden age when things seemed to work in America. On the plus side of things, this may be the last year of Christmas shaming. Even the Wokesters of Wokesterdom appear weary and bored with Wokesterism — isn’t that a blessing?
I have a theory for what is behind the decline and fall of this once proud and capable country: nobody answers the phone. This one change in consensual social behavior has enabled virtually everyone in authority to evade responsibility for what they do. Corporations especially don’t want to be bothered by their pain-in-the-ass customers with their tedious complaints and demands. Every time I see the smirking face of that quasi-autistic ninny, Bill Gates, I have to wonder why he doesn’t apply a tiny fraction of his gargantuan fortune to hire a few actual humans to answer the phone at Microsoft instead of that insulting tele-robot. I suppose it would hurt his feelings to learn how badly his own products work, especially just after you purchase MS Office — as I had to do last week with the 2019 upgrade — and flounder your way through the maze of protocols to get the damn thing up-and-running.
Forgive the excursion into personal reminiscence, but I remember the time some decades back when I was a 26-year-old reporter on what was then called a newspaper (as opposed to a bulletin of moral instruction from Wokesterdom). I could call just about any company in the land saying I was a reporter for ________ and get the Chief Executive on the phone in a New York minute. (It ain’t bragging if it’s true.) This was the case, of course, for thousands of other reporters on hundreds of newspapers in America. If a story was especially dicey, you could work your way up the whole C-suite food chain collecting all kinds of contradictory, ass-covering information until you got to the Big Orca at the top, and lever his mouth open with what you learned from his underlings. It worked when dealing with the government too. You could lay a line of talk on some receptionist — say, invoking the term “grand jury” — and get her boss on the phone pronto. I think it went quite a ways to keeping the people who run things honest.
Woodward and Bernstein could never investigate a case like Watergate under today’s conditions. Deep Throat wouldn’t even answer his phone. The two reporters would find themselves so far up an automated answering tree that they would disappear across an event horizon and find themselves in an alternative universe where Richard Nixon was a relief pitcher for the Montreal Expos and Fred Rogers sat in the Oval Office… and there would be no story to tell. These days, apparently, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee can’t even get a hold of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. They left a message on his phone a few months ago and he hasn’t even deigned to send a text back.
This national telephone quandary is a prime example of the diminishing returns of technology. We’ve spent thirty-odd years and countless billions of dollars computerizing all the phone systems in this country, and then overlaid so many bells and whistles on top of it, and the net effect is that it only made communication worse. Combine that with one of my cardinal rules of human social behavior — that you can’t overstate people’s ability to misunderstand each other — and you might apprehend the darkness we’ve entered.
We’re currently being treated to another playing-out of these diminishing returns of technology in a related realm of communication: financial markets. Go ahead and put algo robots in charge of the system and see how things work out. Today we’re informed in The New York Bulletin of Wokesterdom that “the President’s Working Group” (also known as the Plunge Protection Team) is convening to assess the ongoing damage to stock indexes. The PPT at least is composed of humans. But are the trading algos a fair match for them? I doubt it. I suspect the PPT and the rest of America will discover we’ve blundered into the Sorcerer’s Apprentice scenario, a techno-magical, runaway, recursive feedback-loop fiasco. How odd, though, that this is all happening during the holiest week of the year.
Sleep in heavenly peace tonight, everybody, as Santa makes his way across the rooftops and homeless tarps of our Republic. Your call is important to us!
33 Comments on "Kunstler: Merry Christmas to All"
Sissyfuss on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 9:57 am
We’re rapidly plugging into the Matrix because a screen is so much more comforting than peering out your window.
asg70 on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 10:17 am
Another peak-oil-free news post. Kunstler hasn’t been peak-oil in years. Stop following him and stop asking us to follow his worthless posts.
JuanP on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 10:23 am
There is always so much drama in Kunstler’s mind. Chill out, man! Everything is good and life goes on! I think Jim needs to spend more time growing food; I suspect his garden is all weedy right now. There is not a single weed on my fields!
MacroHard on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 10:39 am
And switch to Linux + LibreOffice for your computing needs; the stuff works pretty good these days.
JuanP on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 10:43 am
Excuse me, I mean I need to chill out. I have been freaking out most of the year. I really shouldn’t be on this forum becuase I am not right. I am infecting this forum with my insanity. I don’t garden anymore becuase I have been kicked off all the local gardens I once frequented. Anyway Merry Christmas and God’s blessings.
"Lucifer" on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 10:55 am
Merry Christmas to you all, especially to those i will be seeing very soon. I’m not sure about God’s blessings though.
deadly on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 11:47 am
I received a phone call probably six years ago now, the caller said it was IRS. Of course, I knew it wasn’t the IRS, just another dumbass being a dumbass. They just don’t quit, those dumbasses.
Haven’t answered the phone since. I’ll take a message.
A telephone became a marketing tool and that is the reason why nobody answers the phone anymore, they’re tired of being scammed 24/7.
You’re a fool to answer your phone if the caller is unknown.
You’re vulnerable to every scam out there.
Enough.
It’s over.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 1:01 pm
“Kunstler hasn’t been peak-oil in years. ”
Should give you a clue about the relevance of the peak oil topic.
Davy Identity Theft on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 1:31 pm
JuanP on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 10:43 am
Davy on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 1:58 pm
“Excuse me, I mean I need to chill out. I have been freaking out most of the year. I really shouldn’t be on this forum becuase I am not right. I am infecting this forum with my insanity.”
Sorry everyone. I was projecting again.
JuanP on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 2:12 pm
“Excuse me, I mean I need to chill out. I have been freaking out most of the year. I really shouldn’t be on this forum becuase I am not right. I am infecting this forum with my insanity.”
Sorry everyone. I was projecting again.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 2:21 pm
With oil price collapsing and financial markets having the worst month ever this has to be the begining of the big crash .get your pop corn out strap yourself in 2019 is will
be a show you won’t want to miss.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 2:54 pm
I have read some of kunstlers books and even though I agree with him about the coming collapse I think his
vision of our future is a bit optimistic .i think it will be a bit more like a mad max scenario.
More Davy Identity Theft on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 3:15 pm
JuanP on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 2:12 pm
JuanP on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 4:33 pm
The above is me. I am back to my clowning around. I am starved for attention.
I AM THE MOB on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 4:52 pm
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could cause a global flood -Science
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/discovery-recent-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-raises-fears-new-global-flood
makati1 on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 5:41 pm
Sissy, yes denial is becoming rampant along with social insanity. Especially in snowflake land. The real world is too scary and requires thought and decisions and work, whereas, self pics and seeing what some casual cyber “friend” ate for breakfast is so much more important. Only a few more days to go and 2018 is finished.
2019 should be even more interesting, as in the Chinese proverb, than 2018 was. Will this be the last Christmas? Will the US survive another year? What will the Trumpet do next? Stay tuned.
makati1 on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 5:49 pm
asg70, just stop reading them. Oily topics are all lies, guesses and dreams. Not worth reading. No one knows, or cares, what the price of oil will be in five years or even five days. There will still be lots of oil in the ground long after we are unable to recover it.
Only those with an intere$t in oil profit$ could care. And, if they don’t get out before the collapse, they won’t have anything to worry about either. All the oily articles now are just sales pitches to keep the suckers on board until the elite can drain them dry.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 8:04 pm
Totally agree Mak 2019 we going to see some scary sh@t go down time to start preparing for a exit stratagy before its to late.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 8:27 pm
Shortonoil’s Etp model suggests that the price of oil would be around $42 by end of 2018 which it is and by late 2019 will be under $30 . Won’t be many oily company’s left then that can keep going at those prices. lol.
makati1 on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 8:57 pm
Cloggie, I’ve been prepping for over 10 years now. Made my move in the beginning and don’t regret a minute. The farmhouse is independent of any energy source, if necessary. Of course we have wiring and plumbing like any other house, but it is not a necessity to live there. Water is gravity fed and no cold to worry about heating. Over 80 miles from any big town or city. When the SHTF, it will be as good a place to be as is possible in this world.
Cloggie on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 9:25 pm
Nice one mak looks like your all set up for what’s coming.
Davy on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 9:52 pm
“The above is me. I am back to my clowning around. I am starved for attention.”
Sorry everyone. The above was obviously me, and I was projecting again, but y’all already knew that.
Call me crazy.
taw on Tue, 25th Dec 2018 9:59 pm
‘Just got back from Taguig.
If the SHTF, 80 miles from there is still too close.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 1:50 am
Mak
You are outnumbered by the unprepared by a million to one..And you are a weak old incel..Good luck you dimwit who doesn’t understand logic.
Go Speed Racer on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 2:25 am
Hi “I am the mob” that is a cool link,
that Antarctica could collapse abruptly and
then get a big global flood.
I hope it happens because I don’t have any
waterfront. It will mainly flood-out
the rich. Can hardly wait.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/discovery-recent-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-raises-fears-new-global-flood
Dooma on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:12 am
Kunstler needs to stop reminiscing. He is in danger of sounding much older than he is.
Whatever past he lived in is just a memory now, and it isn’t coming back. We need to concentrate on what we are facing right now if we are to have ANY chance.
Merry Christmas from a Jewish person? What next?
Dooma on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:17 am
Juan, I used to have respect for you but what is wrong with you?
Please stop screwing the forum up? And get some help.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:52 am
I stop reading Kunt when he started squealing that the Russia investigation was a “Psych ops”..A total whack job he has turned into..
Cloggie on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:56 am
I think BASE jumping off buildings and bridges without parachutes will become very popular next year.
More Davy Identity Theft on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 5:58 am
Dooma on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:12 am
Dooma on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:17 am
Cloggie on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 6:17 am
I stop reading Kunt when he started squealing that the Russia investigation was a “Psych ops”..A total whack job he has turned into..
The MIC and neocons like you, can’t exist without an enemy, real or in case of Russia artificial and the prospect of war and rape.
https://www.jdnmirror.com/images/mel-gibson-jews-all-wars.jpg
Fortunately, the MIC is now surrounded by Europe…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/emmanuel-macron-european-army-france-russia-us-military-defence-eu-a8619721.html
…Russia, China, Muslims and US white nationalists. That’s a little too much on your plate.
It is now YOU who is going to get a traditional beating, talmudturk.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/amsterdam-deportations/
Better move your *ss to the kosher (East) side of the Appalachians and avoid the rush. The net is closing around you.
#110
JuanP on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 6:57 am
“More Davy Identity Theft on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 5:58 am Dooma on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:12 am Dooma on Wed, 26th Dec 2018 4:17 am”
I am clowning around again because I can.