Modern Civilization: This Sucker Is Going Down

James Howard Kunstler

4/30/2010

George W. Bush was onto something in the fall of 2008 when he remarked apropos of the Lehman collapse: “…this sucker could go down.”

It’s my serene conviction, by the way, that this sucker actually is going down, right now, even as I clatter away at the keys – perhaps in slow motion, so that not many other bystanders have noticed yet, and the few who have noticed are mostly too cross-eyed with nausea to speak.

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