Posted on 04/09/2020 6:10:53 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
... Various experts and intellectuals forecast warnings of things to come if we don't change our ways. These are mostly people from academia... "You must do as I say to avoid this catastrophe."
If that were all there was to the manipulation, it would be a little thin and might not work. The element of time is critical here....
Take, for example, global cooling. It is not effective to claim that if we don't do X or refrain from doing Y, life as we know it will end tomorrow morning. We can't change things much in part of a day, and when we wake up tomorrow, things will be pretty much as they were yesterday. The prophet of doom is thus proven wrong, and his credibility is lost when he tries his next manipulation. In the case of global cooling, destruction didn't happen, but the end point was far enough out that it could be hoped that people would forget who said what back then.
A variation on this ploy is global warming. This one, they pushed out about twelve years. One refinement is to push it out twelve years today, twelve years from tomorrow, and always twelve years without ever starting the countdown. Another refinement of this technique is to run out the clock and claim that the efforts to avoid the catastrophe were successful or at least successful enough to avoid any obvious signs of our ultimate destruction.
Another refinement in this line came after doom was predicted from global warming. After the initial prediction of disaster by global warming, nothing much happened. No warming. The brain trust quickly moved to climate change. Thus, any change, whether warming or cooling, was a sign that the end is near....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Tried to excerpt the juiciest parts here. The author makes some great points about the way the global-warming intimidation-game is played.
Well why by a gun for “protection” if I never get attacked or my home broken into?
I get the point of the article, but it is really mixing apples and oranges to make any preparedness seem “stupid” because “well nothing happened like predicted, so the threat was a lie”.
One can make reasonable assessments of threats without going overboard. But a near-threat always pushes you to the extreme of over-preparedness as opposed to “climate change” which is always a vague outcome some decades or such in the future where the believers want you to overreact today.
I see what you're saying, but if you buy a gun, or even keep a basement full of food and supplies for 2 years' worth of living for you and your family, you may be out several thousands of dollars if nothing happens. The cost is relatively low to you, for a good deal of security.
If however, our taxes are tripled, our Constitutional rights eroded, and there are daily limits on where we can go and what we're permitted to do because of some perceived potential threat, that is a very high cost. It's a high cost to the individual, and a high cost to society, for far less security.
Look at all the end of the world theories. How many nutcases has humankind had thinking there would be some kind of ‘end of everything’?
“If however, our taxes are tripled, our Constitutional rights eroded, and there are daily limits on where we can go and what we’re permitted to do because of some perceived potential threat, that is a very high cost. It’s a high cost to the individual, and a high cost to society, for far less security.”
It’s all a balance between PERCEIVED risk and PERCEIVED benefits or costs.
The difference between looking out for your safety by buying a gun vs giving up a chunk of your freedom to prevent something that somebody else thinks is going to happen but you don’t, is that the former is your personal choice while the latter is imposed on you. For one you personally perceive the risk, for the other you don’t and thus resent it being imposed on you.
One of the first things the democrats did was try to close the gun stores. Makes you go hmmm...
Also the randomness of what is closed and the stupidity of saying closing beaches or lakes or parks where people are spread out anyways.
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