I have to admit that I admire Jim Kunstler's novels (such as The Halloween Ball and Maggie Darling) and his diatribes against urban sprawl and the Wal-Martization of America (Geography of Nowhere and Home From Nowhere), but his new fascination with/emotional investment in the Peak Oil business is more troublesome. Even worse is his total dismissal of any but the official story regarding 9/11/2001. Here are some particularly malodorous quotes:
The United States had to take Jihad seriously when Jihad hijacked airplanes and knocked down two skyscrapers and one side of the Pentagon. (And, by the way, I regard theories that Vice-president Dick Cheney "masterminded" the 9/11 attacks to be paranoid nonsense beneath discussion.)
(The 9/11 Dick Cheney fantasy is interesting insofar as it provides the nuttier elements of the peace movement with a justification for not replying to the attacks -- we did it to ourselves.)
I met Jim last year, and found him affable, but here he's being nasty--and absolutely wrong. Jim would probably respond by saying that I have a fat ass. (Jim's main objection to Michael Moore is not his left-gatekeeper status, but his obesity.) So be it.
Send Jim Kunstler a note. I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear from you.
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