Pre Post Mortem (James Howard Kunstler)

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

Nov. 8, 2010 -- The poetry of dynamic forces does not lend itself to easy explication.

Thought exercise: Imagine the vector of a Chevy Trailblazer and a CSX coal train of four 3,000-horsepower diesel engines hauling 88 loaded hopper cars four miles north of Chugwater, Wyoming. The Chevy driver left his meth lab, say, fourteen minutes earlier after piping up and doing three tequila shots.

The lead engineer on the coal train, a sturdy fellow, five-feet-ten-inches and 270 pounds, having finished his supper of double deluxe nachos (with two meats and extra cheese) is entering a less-than-blissful realm of myocardial infarction.

Meanwhile, a meteor the size of a basketball has passed into the troposphere on a trajectory to strike the planet Earth at precisely the point where the CSX line crosses state road no. 44. That there would be a snapshot of your U.S. political economy.

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