tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post8068032905856305897..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: So if it’s not global warming . . . ? [updated]Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-41851430999371850972010-03-03T17:45:26.478+13:002010-03-03T17:45:26.478+13:00Thanks George. And thank you for the image and rem...Thanks George. And thank you for the image and reminiscence about that graveyard. (I know the type you mean, having been to Boston many times.) It's evocative and a useful reminder that political change isn't always just raised voices, but sometimes falling swords, even in America.Jeffrey Perrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-53435769146828557102010-03-03T12:12:12.296+13:002010-03-03T12:12:12.296+13:00Jeff,
You write lucidly and well. Your explanatio...Jeff,<br /><br />You write lucidly and well. Your explanation of what you coin 'viro-paganism' is accurate. It details the habits of various pests that interfere in planning consents processes in NZ.<br /><br />Their attitude is similar to the Knights Templar...to ride to rescue Jerusalem [Gaia]from the Saracen hordes [humanity]; ad hoc groups utilising any pseudo spiritual or cultural leverage they can. An unholy alliance between government conservation agencies, indigenous people, botanists, landscape 'architects' and the struggling masses of malcontents who dislike anyone that is happy. When its all boiled down they want to be the last people to move here.<br /><br />Your comment on 'Cold Civil War' is chilling. On a recent visit to the USA I wandered through an old New England cemetery. The numerous headstones covering men who 'died of wounds' brought the Civil War out of history books and into reality. I can see the polarisation of US society deepening with every visit [maybe it will cease if I stop visiting?]<br />There is no law that says it all can't happen again, that it can't go from cold to hot. We live in interesting times.<br /><br />GeorgeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-4140705084195223632010-03-03T06:23:03.141+13:002010-03-03T06:23:03.141+13:00LGM,
Here are a few excerpts from a Free Radical ...LGM,<br /><br />Here are a few excerpts from a Free Radical article I wrote in June, 2007.<br /><br />"[Note: In what follows, I coin a new term, 'viropaganism', in order to more clearly distinguish the fundamental features of environmentalism as a philosophy or religion, from environmentalism as a movement or set of proposals.]<br /><br />At bottom, viropaganism is a form of Nature worship, much like that of the ancient Celts. Its practice is older than any organized religion, including Christianity, which it predates by thousands of years.<br /><br />Its chief characteristic, metaphysically, is that all Nature is both spiritual and physical, that fundamentally these are indistinguishable.<br /><br />Ethically, its primary principle is that all things in nature are of equal intrinsic value. It preaches that 'raw' nature is best, that any 'undue' alteration by Man is a movement away from that ideal.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Two different views on man's nature and that relationship are found within environmental thought: (1) That Man is a part of Nature, but it is his insistence on using reason that separates him from it 'artificially'. That Man should forego emphasis on reason and 'rejoin' nature willingly. (2) More recently, that Man will never forego using his reason, that he is therefore a kind of virus on the Earth, and that — since the welfare of Nature is paramount — it would be preferable if his numbers were radically reduced.<br /><br />In the first case, reason is regarded as non-essential, in the second case ineradicable, but harmful."<br /><br />The article also contains an historical review of some of the writings on the subject from Rousseau, Thoreau, and more modern philosophers.Jeffrey Perrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-76225685667734949402010-03-02T19:07:49.364+13:002010-03-02T19:07:49.364+13:00LGM,
I'll answer your question tomorrow.
For...LGM,<br /><br />I'll answer your question tomorrow.<br /><br />For now, I wanted to address this:<br /><br />"But how depressing is it to see the great American worker - the most productive in the world - 'asking their senators' for jobs?"<br /><br />Only a small minority are doing or would do that, but Progressives dominate both Houses and the White House right now and they're ignoring the vast majority. (Come November that's likely to change, to what degree it's too early to tell.)<br /><br />A clear two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans want the Feds to get out of the way. Progressives will never do that voluntarily - no matter what the polls tell them about their re-election chances. They see their moment has arrived - after decades of working slowly to gain near unbridled power - and they're not about to let a little thing like the 'will of the people' - much less any abstract talk about rights or the Constitution - get in their way.<br /><br />If you're familiar with the novel Atlas Shrugged, remember those who were willing to continue to torture Galt, knowing that their deaths would quickly follow his? That's the mentality I'm talking about here.<br /><br />Progressives have waited 75 years to regain the level of power their ilk enjoyed during the first Roosevelt administration and they're determined to push through everything they can before they lose it again, knowing how difficult it is to undo any major legislation.<br /><br />But want they want is not what most Americans want and neither group is about to roll over. This is a Cold Civil War - about a generation or less from a hot one, if things continue this way - and it's a fight to the political death.Jeffrey Perrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-62373406109602905062010-03-02T17:46:10.670+13:002010-03-02T17:46:10.670+13:00Broken windows. They'll create new jobs.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window" rel="nofollow">Broken windows</a>. They'll create new jobs.Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-2418659552654786202010-03-02T17:07:49.755+13:002010-03-02T17:07:49.755+13:00Imprisonment - it will create new jobs
Detention ...Imprisonment - it will create new jobs<br /><br />Detention centres - it will create new jobs<br /><br />Prison camps - it will create new jobs!<br /><br />Slavery - it will create jobs!<br /><br />Total war - it will create new jobs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-79861949553554069202010-03-02T16:08:46.255+13:002010-03-02T16:08:46.255+13:00They've figured out a brilliant strategy.
Job...They've figured out a brilliant strategy.<br /><br />Jobs are the issue of overwhelming importance in the U.S now.<br /><br />Associate climate legislation with creating jobs and people will roll over and do whatever you want.<br /><br />But how depressing is it to see the great American worker - the most productive in the world - "asking their senators" for jobs?<br /><br />Implying of course, that Senators have emperor like power to create jobs out of counterfeit capital and grant them unto their pathetic and desperate subjects.<br /><br />Imagine the humiliation of the person doing the begging.<br /><br />Thinking he can't get a job on merit, and therefore having to beg for one from his elected official.<br /><br />Self esteem destruction.<br /><br />And don't be surprised when politicians start to associate all manner of things with job creation.<br /><br />Healthcare takeover - it will create jobs!<br /><br />New wars - it will create jobs!<br /><br />Drug war - it will create jobs!<br /><br />Ban smoking - it will create jobs!Willienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-47251020807956216822010-03-02T12:49:09.413+13:002010-03-02T12:49:09.413+13:00Jeff
Can you expand on viro-paganism. It would b...Jeff<br /><br />Can you expand on viro-paganism. It would be interesting to know more about it.<br /><br />Regards<br /><br />LGMLGMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-72080140427285969252010-03-02T12:09:42.985+13:002010-03-02T12:09:42.985+13:00I called it here.
"As the whole global warmi...I called it <a href="http://shavingleviathan.blogspot.com/2010/02/un-climate-chief-resigns-viro-plague.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />"As the whole global warming fraud unravels there will be many more resignations, firings, and so forth. While this is a very welcome turn of events it would be premature to announce the death of the destructive philosophy that bolstered AGW.<br /><br />Environmentalism (the political movement) is undergirded by a more fundamentally irrational view I call viro-paganism, an ancient religion (think Druids) newly reborn at the end of the 19th century. (In modern times, it actually began earlier, most notably in the writings of Rousseau, who bequeathed us the current form of 'the noble savage.') That disease is still raging in the public schools and major media, and until its carriers are removed the contagion will continue to spread."Jeffrey Perrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841019772535869442noreply@blogger.com