James Howard Kunstler's

                                                   
                                                     
post for today (2008-11-17), In the Reality Lounge,
whether or not you agree with it, should be read.               
Early in 1945 I turned four and so began my fifth
year.  Looking back, I know how blessed have been   
the speck-of-time years since/ and that beyond
the world's present downsizing due to the money
errors we humans have made it could already--as
physicist David Deutsch notes (see TED video on
J J Gallaher's Nothing to Say & Saying It)--be     
too late for humanity.  Technologies we do not
yet possess are what we need.  Meanwhile it may 
be best to reinstate technologies we abandoned
and use this nation's natural gifts more productively.
                                                        
                                                      
                                                      
                                                       
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