We Are All Ninja Turtles Now | James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

July 7, 2014

With lakes, swimming holes, rivers, and pools beckoning, I went to a sporting goods chain store at the mall -- where else? -- seeking a new bathing suit (pardon the quaint locution).

The store was curiously named Dick’s. All they had were clown trunks. By this I mean a garment designed to hang somewhere around mid-calf, instantly transforming a normally-proportioned adult male into a stock slapstick character: the oafish man-child.

This being a commodious warehouse-style store, there was rack upon rack of different brands of bathing suits, all cut in the same clown style. I chanced by one of the sparsely-deployed employees and inquired if they had any swimming togs in a shorter cut.

“What you see is alls we got,” he said.

Even the Speedo brand had gone clown — except for the bikini brief, which I wore back during 30 years of lap-swimming, but which I deemed not quite okay for an elderly gentleman on the casual summer swim scene. So I left Dick’s without a new suit, but not before having a completely unsatisfying conversation with one of the managers.

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[DonCoquixote]

1. mr Kuntsler, you have

reinforced a right wing meme:
"I don’t have the statistics but I suspect a lot of the males around here are on federal disability payments, and probably in the psychological categories including “depression,” “learning disabilities,” “ADHD, and so on.” In such a situation, wouldn’t a person benefit from presenting himself as child-like, with a dash of menace? And wouldn’t it be advantageous to look that way all of the time, in case one was unexpectedly visited by a government employee?"

So, they are trying to be frauds, right? Never mind that most people on diosability are vetted to the point of bleeding. I guess you are still looking for the old type of young man that was ready to be a pawn for the same people you normally rail against.

[bananas]

2. He's still upset y2k didn't cause the collapse of civilization.

A few years later, he was upset when peak oil didn't cause civilization to collapse.
Now he apparently thinks shorts and t-shirts are going to cause civilization to collapse.
Kunstler is a crackpot.

edit to add: http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2006/05/305-kunstler-thought-y2k-was-end-of.html