October 19th is the birthday of three notables– the late Alexander Zeisal “Zus” Bielski (born 1912), investor Jim Rogers (born 1942), and James Howard Kunstler (born 1948). Kunstler is well known to SurvivalBlog readers as the author of the novel World Made by Hand and the nonfiction book The Long Emergency. A fictionalized portrayal of Zus Bielski is seen in the movie Defiance. This movie was loosely based on the excellent book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec.
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Kunstler blows me away, every time I read his work. Virtually 100% agreement with everything he says, and then at the end he insists upon reminding us he’s a………democrat.
Q: How much more ‘blown’ could my mind be?
A: None more blown.