FSJ does underscore how American artificially inflated lifestyles even post collapse are contingent upon human squalor elsewhere. It’s not just a Nike shop gone rogue or some clothes chain in Thailand.
Funny how American media of all stripes can’t see the explicit contradiction therein to almost every tenet of major political belief across the (embarrassingly narrow) U.S. political spectrum. The Libertarians get a pass because they know who John Locke is. The Ann Rand-types, too.
Anon says
Weird.. I get no edit box anymore on my blog comments. And they don’t show up on the recent comments list anymore. Is it just me ?
Dr Leo Strauss says
Anon, there’s a technical glitch. It may have happened when sro typed the leters ‘v-i-s-t-a’ and invoked techno-karma from Below. Will get things back shortly, karma willing.
Anon says
That FSJ blog is great!
I think some see it, but how to get US a to have “soft landing” from the excess of now to a more sustainable lifestyle ? A hard question. I think like most ostriches, the few media types who see this bury their head in the sand and pretend all is well, since they have no answers that would be popular.