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James Howard Kunstler

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TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

And these are typically the kind of dwellings we find.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

They're basically a house with nothing on the side because this house wants to state emphatically, I'm a little cabin in the woods.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

There's nothing on either side of me.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

I don't have any eyes on the side of my head.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

I can't see.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

So you have this one last facade of the house, the front, which is really a cartoon of a facade of a house.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

This is really, in fact, a television broadcasting a show 24-7 called We're Normal.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

We're normal, we're normal, we're normal, we're normal, we're normal, please respect us, we're normal, we're normal, we're normal.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

But we know what's going on in these houses.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

You know, we know that little Skippy is loading his Uzi down here.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

Getting ready for a homeroom.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

We know that Heather, his sister Heather, 14 years old, is turning tricks up here to support her drug habit.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

Because these places, these habitats are inducing immense amounts of anxiety and depression in children and they don't have a lot of experience with medication.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

So they take the first one that comes along often.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

These are not good enough for Americans.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

These are the schools we're sending them to.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

The Hannibal Lecter Central School.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

Las Vegas, Nevada.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

This is a real school.

TED Talks Daily
(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

But there's obviously a notion that if you let the inmates of this thing out, that they would snatch a motorist off the street and eat his liver.