"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
And more radical options, such as pumping sulfur into the atmosphere to counteract warming, pose a great deal of risk. What is really scary is that the proponent of that craziness has served a term as Australian of the Year, is currently our Head Climate Change Commissioner, and has just been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
The last things liberals and leftists want people to have are critical thinking skills. They want people to have them no more than mullahs want ordinary Muslims to have them.
Well it seems original anyway, and interesting, like other solutions proposed - giant reflecting mirror in space, satellites in the atmosphere designed to suck up excess carbon dioxide, heat-retardant gases released into the atmosphere, deserts painted white in order to reflect heat back into space, etc... only difference here is that the changes suggested here are to humans themselves, not to parts of the world around us, and they're not very different in kind from the types of eugenicism suggested in earlier eras by progressive types. That 'only' difference turns out to be a pretty significant one!
Naive, too:
Treat people with hormones, such as oxytocin, to make us more altruistic and empathetic. As a result, people would be more willing to act as a group and more sensitive to the suffering of animals and other people caused by climate change.
Right, because you can change the moral character of millions of people - you can effect a change that has vexed philosophers and religious minds and scientists and humanists and everyone else in the world ever since humans have been humans - by injecting a freakin' chemical. Give me a break.
Now that solutions like this are being mooted it does seem rather like modern progressive philosophy is coming to a full stop... most people instinctively realise, at some point, that this sort of thinking is bullshit - that the fundamental problem with people aspects of themselves, whether it be their bodies, or their communities, their societies, their culture, their economies, or whatever - is that these changes will be made by other people. The imperfect are attempting to perfect the imperfect, and the result will be... imperfect, horrible, destructive in every sense of the world. There's a poem or a thousand about this but I can't remember the quote off the top of my head...
Midgets, Midgets Uber Alles...
ReplyDelete...and drugs designed to improve cognitive ability, they propose.
ReplyDeleteThat might work. Making people smarter should eliminate the moonbats, who cling to their AGW religion.
I guess they gave up on the Big Sunshade in Space and other brilliant schemes.
ReplyDeleteAnd more radical options, such as pumping sulfur into the atmosphere to counteract warming, pose a great deal of risk.
ReplyDeleteWhat is really scary is that the proponent of that craziness has served a term as Australian of the Year, is currently our Head Climate Change Commissioner, and has just been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Deborah Leigh said...If people were engineered with critical thinking skills it would solve alot of problems. Oh, the possibilities....
ReplyDeleteThe last things liberals and leftists want people to have are critical thinking skills. They want people to have them no more than mullahs want ordinary Muslims to have them.
ReplyDeleteCould fit more of them into New York City.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Well it seems original anyway, and interesting, like other solutions proposed - giant reflecting mirror in space, satellites in the atmosphere designed to suck up excess carbon dioxide, heat-retardant gases released into the atmosphere, deserts painted white in order to reflect heat back into space, etc... only difference here is that the changes suggested here are to humans themselves, not to parts of the world around us, and they're not very different in kind from the types of eugenicism suggested in earlier eras by progressive types. That 'only' difference turns out to be a pretty significant one!
ReplyDeleteNaive, too:
Treat people with hormones, such as oxytocin, to make us more altruistic and empathetic. As a result, people would be more willing to act as a group and more sensitive to the suffering of animals and other people caused by climate change.
Right, because you can change the moral character of millions of people - you can effect a change that has vexed philosophers and religious minds and scientists and humanists and everyone else in the world ever since humans have been humans - by injecting a freakin' chemical. Give me a break.
Now that solutions like this are being mooted it does seem rather like modern progressive philosophy is coming to a full stop... most people instinctively realise, at some point, that this sort of thinking is bullshit - that the fundamental problem with people aspects of themselves, whether it be their bodies, or their communities, their societies, their culture, their economies, or whatever - is that these changes will be made by other people. The imperfect are attempting to perfect the imperfect, and the result will be... imperfect, horrible, destructive in every sense of the world. There's a poem or a thousand about this but I can't remember the quote off the top of my head...
ReplyDeleteOh yeah...
ReplyDeletePhilip Larkin, 'This be the verse'
They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They don't mean to, but they do -
They give you the woes their parents had
And add some extra - just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old style hats and coats
Who half the time were soppy stern
And half, at each other's throats.
Man hands on misery to man,
It deepens like a coastal shelf -
Get out as early as you can
And don't have any kids yourself.
Good night!