Watermelons:
GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
Posted on 07/30/2009 8:26:05 AM PDT by spycatcher
Britain is, thankfully, an ideologically barren land. The split between Right and Left is no longer ideological, but tribal. Are you a nice social liberal who believes in markets, or a nasty social liberal who believes in markets? Anthony Blunt’s memoirs, published this week, reveal a different age, one in which fascism and communism were locked in a seemingly definitive battle for souls.
Blunt talks of “the religious quality” of the enthusiasm for the Left among the students of Cambridge. There is only one ideology in today’s developed world that exercises a similar grip. If Blunt were young today, he would not be red; he would be green.
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Both identify an end utopia that is difficult to dispute. The diktat “from each according to his ability, to each according to his means” sounds lovely on paper. Greens promise a world in which we actually survive a coming ecological apocalypse. A desirable outcome, undoubtedly.
But the means to these ends seem similarly insurmountable. Both routes demand an immediate suspension of human nature.
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Indulge me in some historical determinism. We, the peasants, are failing to rise up and embrace the need to change. We will not choose to give up modern life, with all its polluting seductions. Our intransigent refusal to choose green will be met by a new militancy from those who believe we must be saved from ourselves. Ultra-green states cannot arise without some form of forced switch to autocracy; the dictatorship of the environmentalists.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Forgot the subtitle: “Once the lure of communism seduced the idealistic. Today’s environmental ideologues risk becoming just as dangerous”
I forget, was Blunt the “third man” or the “fourth man”? I think the third man, Philby, Burgess, Blunt. Traitors all.
Geat article! Thanks for posting.
Ping!
GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
Once I heard one of the founders of Earth First!, Dave Foreman, say that humanity was a “cancer on the planet.” That was back in 1983.
I immediately thought about the cure for cancer and understood what the environmental community was really all about.
Yes, the movement is ultimately about a perverted faith using genocide or eugenics just as Fascism and Communism are. Hopefully that’s becoming more clear as we think about “Cap and Death.”
Oh no good sir it’s killer watermelons green on the outside but pinko commie on the inside. 8*)
excellent article!
Who was the third man?
Kim Philby I think
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