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Forecast 2025 — Taking Out the Trash
"A core reflex in these decades of postmodern insanity was constant rejection of things we thought we knew in favor of New, Improved Beliefs packaged…
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Forecast 2024: Do You Dare Even Look?
“I’ve also lost patience with the Sharia of the political left taking over the entire system.” — David Collum
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Forecast 2023: Get Out of the Way if You Can’t Lend a Hand
“The powerful are panicking, and so they should.
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Forecast 2022: Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age
If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the…
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Forecast 2021: Chinese Fire Drills with a side of French Fries (Jacobin-style) and Russian Dressing
As I write, the presidential election is still not resolved, with dramatic events potentially unfolding in the first days of the New Year.
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Forecast 2020: Whirlin’ and Swirlin’
The big question for the year 2020 is simple: can America get its mind right?
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Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA
Welcome to the American hall of mirrors… and mind the broken glass all over the floor.
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Forecast 2018: What Could Go Wrong?
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this…
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Forecast 2017: The Wheels Finally Come Off
“There is no other endeavor in which men and women of enormous intellectual power have shown total disregard for higher-order reasoning than monetary…
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Forecast 2016 : Pretend to the Bitter End
There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e.
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Forecast 2015: Life in the Breakdown Lane
“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned.
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Forecast 2014: Burning Down the House
Many of us in the Long Emergency crowd and like-minded brother-and-sisterhoods remain perplexed by the amazing stasis in our national life, despite the…
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Forecast 2013: Contraction, Contagion, and Contradiction
The people who like to think they are managing the world’s affairs seem fiercely determined to ignore the world’s true condition — namely, the permanent…
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Forecast 2012 : Bang and Whimper
There’s a lot to be nervous about, even if you don’t subscribe to the undercooked Mayan apocalypse lore moving through the gut of the Internet like a…
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Forecast 2011: Gird Your Loins for Lower Living Standards
Sheesh. Was I ever wrong last year about those stock market indexes. I called for Dow 4000 and look where the darn thing ended up: 11,577.50.
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Forecast 2010: The Center Does Not Hold… But Neither Does the Floor
There are always disagreements in a society, differences of opinion, and contested ideas, but I don’t remember any period in my own longish life, even…
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Forecast 2009
There are two realities “out there” now competing for verification
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Forecast 2008
For the tiny fraction of people who actually pay attention to real events — those, for instance, who know the difference between Narnia and Kandahar …
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Forecast 2007: First a Look Backward
Let’s get this out of the way up front: the worst call I made last year was for the Dow to crumble down to 4000 when, in fact, it melted up to a new…
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Forecast 2006
The sheer weight and inertia of American life kept our systems on their feet through 2005, despite a worsening economic climate and some harsh body…
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Forecast 2005
I'm going to stick my neck out and make some predictions for the coming year.
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James Howard Kunstler
The Clusterfuck Nation Manifesto
Strategies for Survival: Notes on the Coming Transformation of American Life July 22, 2002
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A short list of trends the world will be facing
This is not a set of predictions, just notes on what we ought to be paying attention to.
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