Rory wrote…
This post is quite spectacular given that it becomes a contender for worst, and most wrong headed piece of garbage presented on this site this year, just a few short days before close of play - 2013.
You say nothing of value here - well done you. Worst post of the year
Thanks Rory, everyone knows the value of your incite on so many topics.
Hey, what do you think, could you consider me for second and third worst posts of the year also?
Submitted for your judgement.
This was my second post on pg 44,
Iamwhomiam, try this maybe.
climate change concern creates a meme among the general population that says ‘our leaders’ have great concern for future generations.
This meme happens to counter and cover for several of the duplicitous needs of power.
First off, it provides a facile reason for calling another person ‘pro-polluter’.
It’s also an excellent antidote to deep politics in general, well because the club of Rome clearly has the best interests at heart for humanity in general.
Was there ever any MSM coverage of the total chemical decimation of Fallujah?
How bout Fukushima? Any news? Corexit? What about the state dept big wigs being sales agents for Monsanto?
Do people who ‘care’ about future generations salt a sizable portion of this world with depleted uranium?
So, this is put to the lie when we see the variety and extent to which power will resort to in order to maintain itself.
Part of that image maintenance involves throwing all kinds of money at various ‘good’ causes. And I’m not being facetious, as quite a lot of the money does seem to do good work.
Yet as Rockefeller, and many megalomaniacs before and after him have found, one can define the agenda if one has a good enough hook.
Rockefellers hook was ‘modern medicine’. Yes, the practice of medicine at the time deserved a fair bit of criticism and there was need for better standards, but what we have at this point is a VERY polluting system, to both individuals at all levels and to the larger environment. We have grown to rely on many long-chain molecules to provide ‘cures’ and to control and design our surroundings.
This was not a ‘necessary’ occurrence; we could live much of even modern life without, or with better formulations and control of the toxic materials.
We are not in control of our situation because as a general population we are passively unaware of the larger forces that shape our psyches.
Our psyches are built around coercion. One might control its effects in ones personal life, but in the big world, it’s fucking everywhere and is indeed quite sickening for both the individual and the entire system. Coercion is the death blood and soul of Thantos.
CO2 is not making the system sick, coercion backed by a vertical authority distribution system is the element that could crash the system.
Think about it, common sense says the system would ‘work’ better if more people had critical thinking abilities, yet a vertical authority distribution system demands that ones thoughts be inhibited so as to show preference the ‘authority’ or mental fashion of the moment.
Now you are welcome to argue with points I make but it is not at all ‘critical thinking’ to mock what is said or to deflect by avoidance, derision or other tricks, so that you do not address the basic assertion that climate change concern (among its sponsors) is a fig leaf that effectively covers some very sordid examples of anatomy.
The preceding sentence references a video posted by a member suggesting that I lacked the critical thinking skills of a two year old.
This sort of thing may discourage other weak willed people from considering the perspective I present, but it’s really quite silly and some folk around here are really quite old enough by now to have grown up more than what it sometimes appears.
How about this post Rory, could this be in the competition?
Most of my friends (and a portion of my family) are or have been activists, environmentalists, feminists or spiritual seekers of some sort (mostly Buddhists’).
I wish them all well in their efforts, but am often struck by the notion that the form of the signifier dominates the substance, that then seems to get sublimated by institutional and maybe tribal limiters.
In contrast to BenD’s approach, a ‘slow evolution’ path is more to my liking. I do not care to ‘transcend’ anything but the coercion that seems so endemic to this stage of human development.
We are disrespecting this Earth that sustains us.
Yet to my mind, the modern sources of disrespect are better traced to pharmaceutical co, war, MIC, Monsanto, GE, and the polarizing normative narrative that is required to sustain the associated power structure.
When people ask, why would the ‘elite’s spoil the whole world when they and their children live here also, they fail to realize that without the maintenance of this coercive narrative the ‘elite’ would disappear.
Maintenance of our current narrative is ALL that the infinite money men spend their treasures on.
Because western exceptionalism is a centerpiece of this narrative, AGW and the associated notion that we can ‘save civilization’ through science and application of political will serves well the conceits of WE.
If our split reality narrative were to be replaced by a continuum based model for our narrative, we might become creatures of a much more positive conditioning process where we are able to recognize value in the thinking of others without always and only finding allies and enemies.
Being that the infinite money men got us (largely) into this mess, it hardly seems likely that they have standing to get us out.
Or maybe this post;
Rory
It is hardly pseudo-techno shamanism, to observe and opine that the folk who have amassed great sums of money with little regard to the long term common good are same folk that now commit huge sums of money toward ‘fixing’ our world.
It is therefore reasonable to suspect that AGW is analogous to the war on cancer or the war on drugs, which is as an attention getter with no real intention of solving any real problems.
Same thing with ‘Rockefellers’ green revolution; all form, no substance.
This is my read on the situation and if you cannot see or deal with any substance of what is written maybe you would do better to stay silent.
Rory wrote…
again, a lot of jargon laden mumbo jumbo but what you say all boils down to you thinking the lizards are enslaving us. Insightful stuff
And then we come full circle with this scintillating example of ‘critical thinking’ whereby the content of my assertions is quite simply dismissed by reducing them to ‘thinking the lizards are enslaving us’.
Chew on dem poison pills Rory, dem good for you.
All these things will continue as long as coercion remains a central element of our mentality.
And don't forget, it's summer down there.
