A prophet?

Isaac Bashevis Singer said, "If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet." By that description, Jim Kunstler is a prophet, prophesying at Clusterfuck Nation. His message is prophetic: The world as we know it is passing away. Hard times are ahead. But the downsized, austere world we're headed toward just might be more human than the one we live in now. A recent post, The Rapture, sums up his prophetic vision.

I find Jim's world view somehow exhilarating—but then I live in the city that may have invented the hurricane party. Seriously, though, there's a lot about modern life that is literally depressing. We try to be self-sufficient, and end up isolated from one another. Might we be happier if we need and are needed by the people we live with? If the things Jim foresees come to pass, we will find out.