The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.

Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.