Scenes from World Made by Hand -- a novel of post-oil Americ

[atchoo2u]

Does anyone know the Gospel song he quotes in the beginning if the book???

[bertapelleja]

@atchoo2u

It is "i am a pilgrim"

Good Song!

[IWantDemocracyNow]

I guess this post oil future only has midwestern and southern farm stereotypes for people?

I LOVE Kunstler as a journalist and a commentator, but as a fiction writer phophetizing the future, i am greatly disappointed.

[proverb311031]

it is so sad that our government has decide to let the country fail in this way, when we already have the technology at hand right now to free ourselves from non-renweable fuels sources becasue of greed, what good is a marketplace when you can't transport your good, and in many cases produce them based on using non-renweables in food production.

[emilkarpo]

Transmits the feel of the novel very well.

[NyBob85]

If peak oil makes us turn into a substinence-level agricultural society the American dialect will not revert to a folksy Mark Twain-esque level like it inexplicably does in this book. This guy has a serious hard on for 19th-century agrarian nostalgia. Still, good read nonetheless.

[Yamanoneko]

@NyBob85

It's part of the plot -- the people coming in are Virginians adept at living off the land, so one would expect rural Virginian accents.

[Axbent]

so ppl wil lstart dressing and talking like hillbillies again in the future...

[MrWrestling1000]

I hope this is made into a movie someday. It is a great book.

[PeakOilCountdown]

just beautiful.

[megdesmik]

would love to see a movie of this made

[PADeutschgirl]

Thank you for your efforts. I hope it is soon enough to preserve and promote the rapidly vanishing knowledge some of us still have from those who never lost their connection with land, water and community. My home valley has yet to lose all the traditional family farms, horse and buggy's, weekly farmers markets, wildcrafting, fishing, hunting and trapping as a way of life. Sadly many consider it more an amusement or "quaint" relic of post colonial life. What will happen to it all?

[Nimadan]

Overall, 4 Stars. Three for the actual video and one for being dead right about something important.

The music is GREAT! A lot of the dialogue is quite good (that's goes for the vid and the book). The actors were OK but with one exception, I can't see them in the movie version. The worst miscasting was the guy who played Wayne Karp. Sorry, but he couldn't scare a Japanese tourist, let alone a camp full of ex-bikers. The kid who played Brother Minor though seemed exactly right to me.

[BubbFromGEI]

I enjoyed the reading, and the music helps to establish the atmosphere.

I think it should be made into a radio play, perhaps for the BBC. I may be able to help you make some contacts for that.

If interested viist my chatboard website: GreenEnergyInvestors dotcom, and make a post on the Main board, and I will see what i can do

[GeoffreyRahl]

yeah the music is great you really get that sense of relaxed and nature synchronized life.

[bluemamie]

I just finished World Made By Hand, and I highly recommend it.

I found this to be a very hopeful book. After reading this and The Long Emergency back to back, I'm left with the certainty that I am still invested in the project of human civilization, regardless of impending hardship or potential devastation.

He doesn't write women well, but most male writers have trouble with that. The most prominent female character was a young character, which was a wise choice in that regard.

Read it!

[babyloncrumble]

"I'm left with the certainty that I am still invested in the project of human civilization, regardless of impending hardship or potential devastation."

May I ask why?

[bluemamie]

Life's longing for itself, I imagine.

[AmericanRuffian]

This should be made into a movie for real, for real. I tell people about the life I will most likely see (I am 34 now) and that the life my kids and grandkids will experience will be a far different place than it is now in twenty-oh-eight. They look at me like I am a doofus. Maybe I am a doofus, but not about peak oil. It's real, my friends. R-E-A-L real!

I love the civil war era music in this. Reminds me of Ken Burns. Did Burnsie make this? Very well done. Rock on JHK! Rock on!