Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Class, Race, Hierarchy, & Social Relations in 'The Long Emergency' - Reality Does Not Have An Ideology




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Class, Race, Hierarchy, & Social Relations in 'The Long Emergency' - Reality Does Not Have An Ideology



James H. Kunstler * Peak Prosperity After the second novel in my World Made By Hand series (The Witch of Hebron) came out in 2010, I was beset by indignant reviews and angry letters from female readers over my depiction of gender and class relations further along in the 21st century. The fictional future economy I described was, in its broad outlines, similar to the future sketched by Chris Martenson and his stable of writers — a re-set to a far more local, much less complex, and downscaled economy, with a lot of formerly modern comforts and conveniences missing from the picture. In my fictional world of Union Grove in far upstate New York, the electricity was no longer running, the Internet was dead, giant corporations and government had withered away, motoring was history, paper money worthless, and a lot of common institutions (courts, schools, supermarkets) no longer functioned.






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