A Cheerful Engagement with Reality

KMO yaks with James Howard Kunstler about the third novel in his World Made by Hand series. It's called A History of the Future, and it gives us a glimpse of life outside the little corner of upstate New York to which the events of the first two novels were confined. We learn that down south, the cornpone Nazi's of the Foxfire Republic have rallied around racial purity, Nascar and Wal*Mart while the US Federal Government rules a nation that doesn't know it still has a government from an island in Lake Michigan. Jim describes how he is still catching flak for suggesting that the collapse of the economy and modern infrastructure would interrupt progress towards a lefty utopia in which all differences of social status have been obliterated.

 

Music by The Weal and the Woe.