A Quote by James Howard Kunstler

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

James Howard Kunstler

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America Entropy Environments Everyday Made Our Ugliness Visible

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James Howard Kunstler
American - Author
Born: October 19, 1948

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.

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