A stifling heat wave has impacted large portions of the United States this summer, which can only mean one thing: endless stories from regime media about the apocalyptic threat of climate change.
I love this: "The notion that the planet’s climate is too complex to understand and outside of human control is unacceptable, just like the notion that men are born men and stay men even if you surgically mutilate them to look more like women." So true.
I would call attention to another layer of linguistic innovation towards these ends: The semi-recent transition from "climate change," to "climate crisis," in media. This phrasing performs an end run around criticism of climate change (of course the climate is changing; that's what it does) by embedding the assumption of an emergency in need of urgent action into the discussion, before any debate ever occurs.
Unless this is recognized for what it is, a bid to determine the state of exception justifying unlimited expansion of state power, those who try to argue against the "climate crisis," are doomed to fail before their first counterpoint: They will have already accepted the framing that such a crisis might exist. Exactly what the high priests of the state want them to do.
I wanted to read the whole article but the Blaze site is riddled with anti-virus spam which blanked my screen too many times to get the article read..... :-(
The Holocaust is also a 'magic word' which is beyond rational debate. The truth or untruths of it do not matter to it's function. The centre of the discourse is always invisible and beyond truth and falsehood, thus it functions as a founding myth for post-WWII society.
The sad thing is, it’s very easy for the right to be more green than Al Gore but I see a lot of denial and GDP worship, as you allude to. We don’t really know how much we are affecting the climate nor how catastrophic it will be, but prudence seems in order. We already know that EVs, wind and solar do more harm than good so let’s offer some solutions
I believe one way to counter this is to reframe the terms in religious forms: corrupt climate worship (climate change), sacred race rituals (DEI), crusader (immigrant) etc. It will get people to think deeper about both terms and cause Leftists to recoil at the same time.
Liberalism is in your words, “pro-exploitation of nature”. Bacon obviously provided the philosophical basis for much of what followed.
As for “ultra lulz” I’m unfamiliar with that school of thought and would like to be spared a pedantic lecture on its origins, great thinkers and chief claims.
Francis Bacon was "liberal?" Ultra lulz, classical liberalism didn't even exist until the 18th century at the earliest, and really the 19th century and the writing of John Stuart Mill.
I love this: "The notion that the planet’s climate is too complex to understand and outside of human control is unacceptable, just like the notion that men are born men and stay men even if you surgically mutilate them to look more like women." So true.
I would call attention to another layer of linguistic innovation towards these ends: The semi-recent transition from "climate change," to "climate crisis," in media. This phrasing performs an end run around criticism of climate change (of course the climate is changing; that's what it does) by embedding the assumption of an emergency in need of urgent action into the discussion, before any debate ever occurs.
Unless this is recognized for what it is, a bid to determine the state of exception justifying unlimited expansion of state power, those who try to argue against the "climate crisis," are doomed to fail before their first counterpoint: They will have already accepted the framing that such a crisis might exist. Exactly what the high priests of the state want them to do.
I wanted to read the whole article but the Blaze site is riddled with anti-virus spam which blanked my screen too many times to get the article read..... :-(
The Distributist is a youtuber, fixed it for you. :-)
simple - Solar Cycle.. ask a ham radio operator who has been through several of the 11 yr cycles…It ain’t cow farts and diesel exhaust friends.
The Holocaust is also a 'magic word' which is beyond rational debate. The truth or untruths of it do not matter to it's function. The centre of the discourse is always invisible and beyond truth and falsehood, thus it functions as a founding myth for post-WWII society.
The sad thing is, it’s very easy for the right to be more green than Al Gore but I see a lot of denial and GDP worship, as you allude to. We don’t really know how much we are affecting the climate nor how catastrophic it will be, but prudence seems in order. We already know that EVs, wind and solar do more harm than good so let’s offer some solutions
I believe one way to counter this is to reframe the terms in religious forms: corrupt climate worship (climate change), sacred race rituals (DEI), crusader (immigrant) etc. It will get people to think deeper about both terms and cause Leftists to recoil at the same time.
“Man's empire lay at his feet. It is a nature that needs man to tame it, conquer it, and subdue it.”
Francis Bacon
God’s creation is not a gift to the liberal and the root of our crises begin there.
Real reactionaries revere their surroundings. Would you cut down a 300 year old Oak tree in front of a 19th century church to increase the GDP?
A 300 year old oak. A 19th century church. GDP.
The latter is hostile to the continuing existence of the first two.
Liberalism is in your words, “pro-exploitation of nature”. Bacon obviously provided the philosophical basis for much of what followed.
As for “ultra lulz” I’m unfamiliar with that school of thought and would like to be spared a pedantic lecture on its origins, great thinkers and chief claims.
You didn’t read my post until the end. A modern affliction.
“Man's empire lay at his feet. It is a nature that needs man to tame it, conquer it, and subdue it.”
Francis Bacon
God’s creation is not a gift to the liberal and the root of our crises begins there.
Francis Bacon was "liberal?" Ultra lulz, classical liberalism didn't even exist until the 18th century at the earliest, and really the 19th century and the writing of John Stuart Mill.
Then why the pro exploitation of nature quote from Francis Bacon genius?