Spiritually Delivered Words Indeed

I like James Kunstler. I like him because he's intelligent, and he doesn't beat around the bush about the points he makes. It's generally how I'd like everyone to be, but most people can't take the blunt truth. I know don't like to hear the unabashed truth about myself. I prefer to say it BEFORE you do in order that the blow doesn't knock me to the ground. Thus, my preference is to deliver, and to get the designated blows with a touch of laughter. The fact that you laugh at what is said acknowledges that you know it is the truth, otherwise it wouldn't be funny.

Anyway, the last blog post I read by Mr. Kunstler wasn't really funny, but it did put everything into words about how I feel on the subject of the country's current sad situation. We've lost our way. We've sold our birthright for a mess of pottage. We left the land which God commanded us to work and covered it with concrete.

This man, Mr. Kunstler I mean, is not writing from a biblically agrarian viewpoint, and yet he comes to the same conclusion. I'd not read his blog in a long time, and today when I needed to have some semblance of confimation that we are on the right track, there are the words in the blog to confirm the message of the spirit.

Coincidence? I think not!

Excerpt:

This disintegrating nation is woefully distracted by Web 2.0, iPads, Avatar movies, Facebook, and the idiot celebrity spectacles of TV, not to mention the disasters of job loss, foreclosure, medical extortion, bankruptcy, corporate loot-ocracy, and the squandered moments of politics. We know we have to go somewhere. We know that something like history is leaving us behind. We have no idea how to get to a new place. And we're spending most of our mental energy gaping into the rear-view mirror, which is the last place to look for your destination.

The confusion is apt to get a lot worse before it gets better. I'm not saying this to be ornery but because I believe it is true, and it will benefit us to know the odds we're up against. The confusion is going to generate a lot of ideas that are inconsistent with reality -- especially involving the seductive nostrums of technocracy. Our redemption will be found closer to the ground in the things we do by hand. But we don't know that yet, and we're going to try everything except looking there before we find out.

Amen Mr. Kunstler ~ spiritually delivered words indeed.