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This epitimizes today's media and press.
Communists: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
Environmentalists: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
Tribal warlords: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
Yassir Arafat, Taliban, whatnot: For your own good, we will make you live like peasants (or even better, starve to death) while we live high on the hog.
etc. etc.
bttt
Where’s the media when you need them?
Earth Hour was the ONE TIME per year that we tested all our outdoor and indoor lights to make sure they all could operate at the same time.
I missed it last night. Now what do I do?
“Earth Hour stigmatizes human accomplishment as the root of all evils and treats the lack of accomplishment as an accomplishment. For all the pretense of activism, environmentalism celebrates inaction.”
Distilling down to the essence as only Mr.Greenfield can. He makes writing look easy.
The world just keeps getting crazier. There are now so many crazy people in the world with so many crazy causes that it will be a miracle if humanity and civilization can survive.
Yes, these noble (sarc) environmentalists are out to save the planet...for themselves. They demand we be vegans, ride bikes, abort our children, have no pets, but they live like kings and pretty much do as they please!
I can visualize an outline for a good short story or movie. An earth-shoe type family sits down to celebrate Earth Hour by turning out the lights; prattling on about how wonderful it is; saving energy, etc. After an hour, they go to turn on the lights... and nothing works. No lights. No heat. Stepping outside they find no lights on anywhere.
Great rant. A minor correction: It HAS a god; the self. When God is rejected....well, nature (dictated by God) hates a vacuum
The world just keeps getting crazier. There are now so many crazy people in the world with so many crazy causes that it will be a miracle if humanity and civilization can survive.
John 3:19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
Bump....
Does this statement explain our current economic policy?
Yes, it does.
This is of his best pieces (from many good ones!) so far.
I think one of the reasons modern liberalism hates Judeo-Christian religion so much is that man is the center of it. That is, God is the center, but man, created in His image and likeness, is the center of the created world and has been given dominion over it.
This conflicts with the anti-mankind eco-religion of the liberal world.
Very well written. Great post!
Yeah but nobody seriously wants to turn the lights off for good. Earth Day isn’t the end of civilization but rather is a tool civilization uses to manage its anxieties.
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Environmentalism is, finally, a death wish. It is an intensely personal claim that the believer is not worthy of life. It must end in suicide if its adherent is faithful. Environmentalism ritualizes ignorance. It is most appropriate that its adherents celebrate their religion by living, if for only an hour, in total darkness.
For the living, turn on every light, honk every horn, brighten every corner, fill every second of that bleak hour with hope and joy and light.
Ideological movements such as this depend on this sort of emotional bonding to create a community of believers and allow them to identify themselves by contrast to the non-believers outside the movement. It's a herd mentality disguised as a cause. To be outside the group is to be despised and acted against, and this absolutely extends to both personal and state violence: ask the Jews. Twice in the last week the jailing of non-eco-conformists has been advocated in the public media. It is profoundly silly and potentially very dangerous.
What Greenfield describes here is the wide streak of nihilism within the philosophy of the environmental movement: the Noble Savage, Rousseau redux or rather regurgitated. It was laughable then and remains so. That doesn't mean that its adherents won't try to hurt people if it makes them feel good.