Archive for April 1st, 2012

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia

Filed in National by jason330 on April 1, 2012 • 77 Comments

It is probably too dreary today to watch this TED TALK again, but perhaps not.

“The immersive ugliness of our everyday environment in America is entropy made visible.”

Oil company subsidies, Zimmerman, Romney, our desperate County Sheriffs and teabag zealots clawing for meaning in the brutalist wasteland of talk radio and Walmart parking lots – the thing that ties all of our modern psychopathies together is our shitty architecture.