Jim Kunstler draws a roadmap to horror and violence, in one unfolding of the economic crisis:
millions of Joe-the-Plumber types will have gotten their pink slips, slipped helplessly into foreclosure, watched the repo men hot-wire their Ford pickups, and eaten down the kitchen cupboard to a single box of Kellogg's All-Bran (which had been sitting there for eleven years infested with weevils). They will be watching the official proceedings in the federal courtrooms with jaundiced eyes as they hunch in their tent cities, in the rain, sipping amateur-brand raisin wine bartered for a few snared rock doves. How long before the hardier ones among them venture out to Easthampton with long knives and matches?
Full employment plan for medievalists! I'm setting up a consulting firm for wanna-be feudal lords.
Posted by: Michael Tinkler | October 31, 2008 at 16:33