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Posted on 02/02/2007 1:33:01 PM PST by Emile
Why is it that, "Whenever Nature displeases us, it must be our fault for doing something that displeased Nature"? This was a question raised by John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, speaking at the Heritage Foundation on January 23, 2007 in support of his new book "Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism is Hazardous to Your Health!" If the winter's too hot, summer's too cold, hurricane Katrina too extreme, environmentalists always conclude that it's because we did something wrong, like atmospheric pollution, habitat destruction and/or the paving of America. Not only does this knee-jerk reaction indicate a colossal sense of self-importance, that importance lies in what we are doing wrong.
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There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'
" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature", but beavers and their dams are.
But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity.
In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "Naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race, i.e. his own self-hatred.
In the case,of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot.
But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have.
Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women, it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural."
LAZARUS LONG
Actually, that is a defining characteristic of religion.
Accepting that entropy exists means accepting that you have no control over the world - it relieves stress to believe that if you throw the virgin in the volcano, the volcano won't smite you in your sleep.
And humans hate stress...
They're members of the new "Peoples Temple" and Al Gore is thier Jim Jones.
"The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature", but beavers and their dams are."
Exactly. Even so-called synthetics are produced from all natural ingredients. Everything in the universe is natural. Even Pamela Lee's two best-known assets are just a combination of natural ingredients.
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"A concise psychoanalysis of the unremitting "sky is falling and it's our fault" environmental left."
He's making it all a lot more complicated than it really is. Wacko environmentalists aren't really environmentalists at all -- they're anti-capitalists using the environment as a convenient bludgeon to damage free enterprise systems.
Cool! will they hurry up and drink the Kool-aid? Hurry! We need this miscreants off the planet, as soon as possible, with albore leading!
There must be something innate in the most primitive nature of human beings, most obvious in the historical primitive and even "enlightened" cultures like the Greeks, and primitive savages still scattered in isolated jungles and in the Middle East.
Some horrible natural catastrophe occurs, and they must sacrifice a virgin, innocent children, a goat, whatever.
When our society seeks to emulate total ignorace like that, makes me wonder if we may not have advanced as much as we would like to think, we modern, civilized humans...
Stupid people have always done this. It's just that they used to blame God (or the gods), witchcraft, demons, or something else, depending on their religious attitudes.
I thought that looked familiar, then I read the byline. RAH, RAH, RAH. :-)
It's a little hard on the "virgin" though.
Wonderful 'glowing' post, three lines of fire!!
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