With an Old West piano tune playing in the background, some of the internets cast of characters explore the self defense seminar put on by Kyle Rittenhouse in his defense of the city of Kenosha and his own life during riots held to honor Jacob Blake on August 25, 2020.

In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

https://kunstler.com

This talk was recorded in February of 2004 a a TED Talk conference.

James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, “Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.”

Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.

His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it’s mutilated cities.

This was followed by The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other “converging catastrophes of the 21st Century.” This was followed in 2012 by Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation which detailed the misplaced expectations that technological rescue remedies would fix the problems detailed in The Long Emergency.

His 2008 novel, World Made By Hand, was a fictional depiction of the post-oil American future. It eventually became a four part series that included The Witch of Hebron, A History of the Future, and (forthcoming in June 2016), The Harrows of Spring.

Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Richesand Maggie Darling, a Modern Romance. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.

Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer forRolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields.

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

He lives in Washington County, upstate New York.

Clip from film Mr. Jones (2019) of actor Joseph Mawle playing Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell) reading a passage from Chapter 10 of the book "Animal Farm".

The film, Mr. Jones, and the book, Animal Farm by Orwell, are critiques of communism and the reign of Josef Stalin.

Employee at Xhale City vape shop in Tucker Georgia freaks out over MAGA gear wearing customer in December of 2018. The employee was later fired and the customer was given a free bottle of the Strawberry-flavored vape juice he came to the store to purchase.

Write up available at:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/12/30/vape-shop-owner-fired-employee-for-verbally-abusing-trump-supporter-after-4-min-tirade-went-viral-708132

Captured from multi-hour live stream on Right Side Broadcasting Network's (RSBN at rsbn.tv) YouTube channel. RSBN streamed live from the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 20, 2020.

The man interviewed is called Stephen but goes by "Beer Man" - and delivers a humorous rant describing his reasons for supporting president Trump and the Republican party in 2020 as well as his take on the Chinese Communist Party Virus (COVID-19), Joe Biden's son, and several other off-color topics.