Added: Feb 2, 2012
From: wepollock
Duration: 36:21
Warren Edward Pollock interviews and has an open talk with leading author James Howard Kunstler. We are at a cultural moment where we are incapable or understanding reality. We are in a massive cultural denial. We must be sensitive to the hardships we are moving towards so we can make better choices. We are going to be dragged kicking and screaming to our destination. Technology Narcissism and Organizational Grandiosity are both movements of denial of what resides in the future paradigm. The hallmarks are denial the inability to tell the truth to ourselves are unfortunate symptoms of our times. We have a highly integrated economy with most of our activity reliant on cheap energy availability and inputs. The public has been bombarded by propaganda aimed at the voting public but biased to vested interests trying strenuously to loot and gather other peoples money for speculation. We are entering a period where we are going to have investment capital scarcities. Investment capital will be very scarce. Its going to become impossible to develop a technological solution set. Risk in our society has been wrongly priced.. I talk about oil being the collateral of the reserve currency which requires sea empire. We just don't want to know. There is a physical world and the monetary constructs are just a construct and esoteric layer. Complex systems we depend upon will break in the future and we see that process underway. Under these stresses all our systems are destabilizing at the same time with the money and banking system proving to be the most fragile complex system because its the most abstract. The Long Emergency and the Witches of Hebron talk about a world without a steady energy input. With MF Global we have a physical world effect due to monetary breakdown. I talk about the North Korean failed idea or Juche "Self Reliance in Depravation," comprehensive anticipatory design science and ephemeralization, or breakdown crisis. We debate the idea of technological advantage and disadvantage. What is a job? What is necessary for life support? How many people (and workers) are needed today? Will we see a great reset (the long emergency) which will kill off lots of people as we migrate into a low functioning society in the Witches of Hebron? There will be a great deal of human attrition with the Soviet Collapse being illustrative of the process. We talk about the reduction of population in Russia (and reduced life expectancy) as background noise in life. Disease starvation and a slow death will take the population down. Perhaps Dmitry Orlov is correct regarding the process of society collapse. James suggests that we will not see policy or protocol to correct the condition of earth being over its life-support capacity.
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wepollock Says:
Feb 3, 2012 - James and I had a great time; we continued on talking offline for about an hour. I don't need everyone to align to my viewpoints. I simply need to gather elements that complete a story-puzzle. The only thing I find curious is that early in JHK made a statement on conspiracy theorists; those frozen in that mindset just could not consider all the other elements in the story. The fact people are frozen in narrow mindset is the disappointment.
kileer7 Says:
Feb 3, 2012 - I was thinking you put a lot of effort into these videos, providing a service that will literally save a few lives (not exaggerating) and the least people can do is try to listen and comprehend the topics discussed rather than focusing on something they don't like.
kileer7 Says:
Feb 3, 2012 - The extent to which humans can gather resources for their own use depends on their geographical reach. Think about that for a moment.
mcgrawtim123 Says:
Feb 4, 2012 - Great interview. I agree with Mr. Kunstler that the future is in small towns and local access to the communities' needs.
NovusChaoMundi Says:
Feb 4, 2012 - Awesome interview JHK knows where were going
NovusChaoMundi Says:
Feb 4, 2012 - The FED is pushing down the long end of the bond rates by buying them up and controlling the yields.
1x93cm Says:
Feb 5, 2012 - Maximum denial- I always wondered what life and people were like during the last days of the roman empire... now i know
trainluvr Says:
Feb 7, 2012 - Well done my men!
NovusChaoMundi Says:
Feb 7, 2012 - Sum it up the majority of the human population is stupid
NovusChaoMundi Says:
Feb 7, 2012 - Statistically stupid
publicme Says:
Feb 26, 2012 - Why aren't you repeating the worries expressed by Malthus that we are destined to run out of resources and that we can't deal with population growth. He has been proven entirely wrong. When prophesy fails they just delay the day or reckoning. Here, they maybe be you.
cfpup Says:
Feb 26, 2012 - Brilliant!!! But I am still going to shout from the highest treetop about overpopulations. . . :-)
simplistiksoftware Says:
Mar 16, 2012 - IEA figures are correct. We have dropped production and more important exporting countries have increased consumption so they are exporting less. This could get pretty real in a couple years. It's not just China coming online, we have all of Africa, India, Former Russian territories, etc... 7 Billion people and only .8 billion cars and trucks. China alone expects 18m car sales this year, India and Tata predict 6m for India alone. x 50 barrels each - 2% production... Not good.
stagflation2010 Says:
Apr 15, 2012 - Another great video. However, your guest's audio sounded much better than your audio.
rfwbuck Says:
Apr 16, 2012 - ...just like he knew y2k was going to be the biggest disaster in the history of the world?
NovusChaoMundi Says:
Apr 17, 2012 - A lot of people were.
jvc929 Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - "Second hand wig shops". Now that is fucking priceless.
jvc929 Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - "Second hand wig shops". Now that is priceless.
ryanbrooks11388 Says:
May 1, 2012 - If there wasn't massive waste, this planet could support us all. It just takes planning and the intitiative and ambition to set up a sustainable system with as little waste as possible.
wepollock Says:
May 1, 2012 - That is what Bucky Fuller had in mind.. thanks for the support.
stonebridge999 Says:
May 19, 2012 - This Kunstler guy came to speak at my college in 2004. The topic of his discussion was fossil fuel depletion. He argued that within the next decade, because of resource scarcities, water travel (as in transport by boat) would become as prevalent as it was 150 years ago. Well it's been 8 and a half years, and as expected, Mr. Kunstler's predictions were about as far from correct as possible. This guy really puts the cunt in Kunstler...
matchbox555 Says:
May 20, 2012 - There will NEVER be an energy shortage.
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
8DoverNJ Says:
Feb 3, 2012 - Strange how James was in some degree of disagreement with Bucky's Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science and then goes on to say something that Bucky used to say time and time again that these necessary changes will only come about via "emergence by emergency." At any rate, nice interview.