{"id":88302,"date":"2023-11-08T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/?page_id=88302"},"modified":"2023-12-28T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T17:23:07","slug":"james-howard-kunstler-the-big-takeover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/james-howard-kunstler-the-big-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"James Howard Kunstler – The Big Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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THE BIG TAKEOVER: Surveillance, Censorship, Cancellation and Juridical Harassment\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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January 13, 2024 - get tickets below<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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James Howard Kunstler<\/strong>, the author of The Long Emergency<\/em>, Too Much Magic<\/em>, and The Geography of Nowhere<\/em> will describe how the American people\u2019s consensus about reality was broken and how we are likely to recover from the civilizational problems that broken consensus entailed.<\/p>

Mr. Kunstler will argue that there is a pernicious group psychology at work that proceeds from the terror of losing the comforts of modern life as our techno-industrial economy enters a state of collapse. That collapse is being provoked by very real on-the-ground reordering of resource access, especially fossil fuels, and the interplay of that with the perversities lately introduced into the global scaffold of finance and credit.<\/p>

Political opportunists have taken advantage of this collective state of mind to seek ever-expanding powers of surveillance, censorship, cancellation, and juridical harassment in an increasingly malevolent campaign to retain power. It has become a collective control neurosis, growing worse as events and circumstances actually spin out of control.<\/p>

The fact is that power is inexorably devolving downward. Our federal government grows increasingly ineffectual, untrustworthy, and impotent, while states and great cities also fail politically and financially. The macro trend in the big picture is deep economic contraction, re-localization of decision-making, and the re-scaling of all our activities, including manufacturing, commerce, finance, and technological enterprise.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Join us January 13, 2024, as James Kunstler reveals layer by layer what is really going on. Be with us IN PERSON or via LIVESTREAM – and if you can’t be with us on the 13th you may watch the replay at your convenience.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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All tickets (both live and livestream) include unlimited access to the replay for six months following the original presentation!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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