The biggest problem: power
And now for something far more serious than all my previous posts combined: the real problem is power. Who was it again who said: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. How true! But power does not only corrupt, it also addicts and warps people’s minds. People are not mentally capable of having power.
It’s not just politicians or activists, but in fact every organized religion (including but not limited to the traditional types, like judaism and the religions offsprung by it, like christianity and islam) has for millennia been a good way of controlling people’s minds and even bodies. (Jesus Christ himself was crucified beause he threatened the religious authority of the Roman emperor , so it’s ironic that he Christian authorities (like the pope) abused their religious power to kill / suppress people. In fact, organized religion itself has alwas been a convenient lever to control people’s thoughts.
And there’s more than just the usual suspects (religion and politics which is in several ways both the predecessor and successor to religion) because any one person or instance which or who has power over other persons will abuse that power.
It just gets so much worse when an idealist is in power, because idealism creatse arrogance, which in itself creates hatred, and trust me: the last that you want is politicians who have a cause for hating you. Because oh, how you will know it!
theyarehere said,
September 10, 2008 at 11:45 am
folllow the yyy
Where yyy is something/-one with a big mouth (you could take yyy to be “the leader”, heck they’re our national politicians hence in some distorted way, they’re our leaders, and if the leader says so, it must be so!). He (or she) who shouts loudest wins! after all, if you shout so loud you must be right, don’t you? and if ou shout so loud you must try to drown out all the other voices, and it’s plain psycho (logy) 101 that if all other voices are drowned out, we’ll only hear what you’re repeating! And again plain psycho 101 says that continuous repetition of a message without any countervoices to be heard, will mean we’ll believe that message, to the point that we’ll even fanatically disagree with all countervoices which might accidentally filter through, because hey, we’ve started believing in this one lie, buy someone who shouts so hard, goes through all the effort of being the only one heard, and you come along and ruin it for him! That’s not nice!
Reagrdless of whether I got a few details wrong or not (I probably did), this is how the climate change evidence works. Even when the likes of Henrik Svensmark have compelling evidence of the flaws in the “proof” of the CO2-lobby, people still want to believe the lies that are shouted into their tiny skulls.
Not so long ago I read a review on the Amazon-website for Svensmark’s book “The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change“
in which the reviewer denigrated the book by claiming it was a nice and comforting thought to believe that humans had nothing to do with climate change. Dear me, I was astonished by how she herself had apparently been brainwashed to the point of where she found it nice to lay the blame of this awful climate change on humans, more accurately writing western, capitalist pigs (that’s us, btw) who are the obvious cause for anything bad we can make up, because we hate them so much that it would be really nice to make them hate themselves for [name your scare].
Btw you may feel a certain atttitude about climate change in my writings, that’s because before they point their grubby little fingers at someone/-thing as the cause for it, first it has to actually occur! Which is highly doubtable at present. Sure, temperatures (like sealevels) are going up and down all the time, this is attributable to seasonal effects and the plain (and for some obvious) fact that not every day is the same as that same day in the previous year.
theyarehere said,
September 10, 2008 at 11:55 am
I’ve answered this question myself: It was John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902) who produced the quote about power:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html
William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He said in an address to the house of lords:
I would like to further expand upon the quote: