Hooray for the Coming Collapse!
I’ve read a review of Reinventing Collapse, and see that its author, Dmitry Orlov, has a website. Go there and read Traffic! Weather! Sports! Collapse!, which contains several choice passages such as:
“The best thing to do about national politicians is to completely ignore them and wait until they go away.”
And also read Keeping Fed, an excerpt from the book containing the likes of:
“Many people in the United States don’t even bother to shop and just eat fast food. The drive to maximize profit while minimizing costs has resulted in a product that manipulates the senses into accepting as edible something that is mainly a waste product. Under strict process control procedures, agro-industrial wastes, sugar, fat and salt are combined into an appealing presentation, packaged, and reinforced by vigorous advertising. Once accepted, it beguiles the senses by its reliable consistency, creating a lifelong addiction to bad food. The chemical industry obliges with an array of deodorants to mask the sickly body odor such a diet produces. Immersed for a lifetime in a field of artificial sensory perceptions, dominated by chemical, man-made tastes and smells, people recoil in shock when confronted with something natural, be it a simple piece of boiled chicken liver or the smell of a healthy human body. Perversely, they do not mind car exhaust and actually like the carcinogenic “new car smell” of vinyl upholstery.”
Hooray!
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