History Is a Prankster, and Jim Kunstler Owes KMO Five Bucks Revisiting C-Realm Podcast 554, recorded March 24, 2020 On March 24, 2020, KMO recorded a conversation with James Howard Kunstler just as the first COVID lockdowns were transforming ordinary life in the United States. The ostensible occasion was the publication of Kunstler’s new book, Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adopters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward . KMO was one of the people profiled in the book. But the timing made a normal book interview impossible. Financial markets had crashed. Businesses were closing. Americans were being told to stay home. Nobody knew whether the disruption would last a few weeks, a few months, or mark the beginning of something much larger. As KMO put it in the original introduction, the conversation was “supposed to be about his new book,” but given what was happening, it became a conversation about both the book and the histo...
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