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There is one supreme and universal law of human relations in all its manifestations, social, political, economic, cultural: people create no end of mischief in the hours when they are not sleeping. Any vision of history-yet-to-come must be predicated on this principle. A correspondent of mine objected to the idea I floated a couple of times that Japan would be the first advanced industrial... Read more of this blog post »
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World Made by Hand
— published 2007 — 10 editions |
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
— published 1993 — 2 editions |
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
— published 2003 — 11 editions |
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The Witch of Hebron: A World Made by Hand Novel
— published 2010 — 10 editions |
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Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century
— published 1996 — 2 editions |
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The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
— 2 editions |
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance
— published 2003 — 3 editions |
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An Embarrassment of Riches
— published 1985 — 5 editions |
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The Life of Byron Jaynes
— published 1983 — 2 editions |
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“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead!”
― James Howard Kunstler
― James Howard Kunstler
“America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.”
― James Howard Kunstler
― James Howard Kunstler
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