Showing posts with label Kunstler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kunstler. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Suburbia - Parasise Lost?

I have been reading the Long Emergency by James Kunstler. Here are some quotes.

The American way of life is synonymous with suburbia.

America has invested its wealth in a living arrangement –suburban sprawl- that has not future.

The state of the art mega-suburbs have of recent decades produced horrendous levels of alienation, loneliness, anomie, anxiety and depression and we may be better of without them.
What has suburbia done to the church?

Kunstler believes that the coming oil crisis will kill surburbia. Will it kill the megachurch too? Can the church redeem suburbia?

These are questions that I am thinking about.