technology and the fate of the nation and that's available you know at the usual places from the atlantic monthly press and my book about the the coast economic collapse future their sport there's four books in the series under the rubric world made by hand and they're also available from the same publisher in the same places that i call let me continue now doug can would look at the national income accounts and found that net public infrastructure spend in the us is just point five percent of g.d.p. versus two point six percent in the one nine hundred sixty s. and even one point six percent as recently as two thousand and seven so infrastructure interest structure spending seems to be collapsing and that the same sustainable your thoughts you know i don't think they're we're going to do anything until stuff really starts breaking in then we may be too broke to fix our stuff and you know life is tragic this is one of the things that has is no longer taught in the universities you know the the tragic sense of life that's been replaced in the humanities by postmodernism and post-structuralism and you kno