A Verbal Hacking of the Suburban Matrix
"You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad." Just as Morpheus helps give Neo the words and concepts to understand the invisible structure all around him, James Howard Kunstler has a knack for putting into words that which many citizens find lacking and unsatisfying in the American suburbs, and pointing out the impending structural failures of "a living arrangement with no future." Kunstler's books are terrific, but the podcast with thirtysomething host Duncan Crary adds an intergenerational component to the conversation about how our communities should and could be structured. This conversation between boomers and Gen Xers is unfortunately absent from our town halls and op-ed pages. If you're interested in being entertained while taking in a high quality discussion of peak oil, climate change, transportation, urban planning, and the politics and psychology that drive our decisionmaking about any of these topics, Duncan and Jim are definitely worth a regular listen. Exploring these issues through the framework of an intergenerational compact of mutual responsibility is an added bonus.Read full review »
Undercover Urbanist via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/09/08
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James Howard Kunstler brings us the message that we perhaps least want to hear: that our way of life has no future, and if we don't start changing it now, events will change it for us, and there will be much pain involved. Once widely dismissed as a nostalgic crank, his predictions and...Read full review »
WApatriot via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/14/08
Jim Kunstler has given me more food for thought than any philosopher in a long time. Well worth your time.
Jimbo! via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/31/09
Great guests on the revived Kunstlercast. Better now without the inane giggling of Duncan Crary.
Anonslav via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/03/13
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