Two great articles posted the same day on FR - that’s why I love it! Thanks for posting this. (The other was a post by DeweyCA of an article by Douglas Murray in the Daily Mail.)
One of the other attractions of environmentalism to totalitarian groups is that it gives them complete control. After all, if somebody can control the very air that you breathe, what else do they need?
And the Marxist Luddite hatred of technology and development goes hand in hand with this. These things make people dangerously independent and give them power.
Socialism - that is, totalitarian collectivism - was at the root of nazism and Hitler even called his party National Socialist. But totalitarianism cannot exist if ordinary people are permitted access to technology and means that would enable them to fight back or even escape it. Look at the greenie obsession with preventing air travel. Of course, party chiefs would get a break. But for the rest of us? Freedom of movement? Nah, sorry.
Interestingly, a number of the mass shooters we have had recently are people with “ecological” obsessions who hated human life in general and were enraged by the sight of people going about in public, having a good life, shopping, eating in restaurants, etc. Remember our first famous domestic terrorist of recent times, the Unabomber...who was a raving eco-freak (whose manifesto now seems to have been adopted by all, including the New York Times, which published it).
But these people are fundamentally like the anarchists of old, who devoted themselves to assassinations and terror throughout Europe and even in the US, and were essentially the shocks troops of Communism. They created instability, hatred and fear. Of course, once the Communists had consolidated their power and no longer needed the anarchists, they got rid of them, because they were too crazy and dangerous. To Communism, everybody is expendable if they are no longer useful.
Two great articles posted the same day on FR - that’s why I love it!
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