Westonman wrote:
I think this is now a good time to bring attention to this article:
http://thegwpf.org/opinion-pros-a-cons/ ... rophe.htmlPascal Bruckner: The Ideology Of CatastropheQuote:
A time-honored strategy of cataclysmic discourse, whether performed by preachers or by propagandists, is the retroactive correction. This technique consists of accumulating a staggering amount of horrifying news and then—at the end—tempering it with a slim ray of hope. First you break down all resistance; then you offer an escape route to your stunned audience.
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Another result of the doomsayers' certainty is that their preaching, by inoculating us against the poison of terror, brings about petrification. The trembling that they want to inculcate falls flat. Anxiety has the last word. We were supposed to be alerted; instead, we are disarmed. This may even be the goal of the noisy panic: to dazzle us in order to make us docile. Instead of encouraging resistance, it propagates discouragement and despair. The ideology of catastrophe becomes an instrument of political and philosophical resignation.
But what is the author trying to say? That the population is micro managed and as such manipulable?
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Sir Martin Rees, a British astrophysicist and former president of the Royal Society, gives humanity a 50% chance of surviving beyond the 21st century.
Rees although a highly educated man who has held prestigious positions and is currently astronomer royal and master of Trinity Collage is also an author, can we accept what he says as authoritative when it may simply be geared towards 'selling more books'?
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Oncologists and toxicologists predict that the end of mankind should arrive even earlier, around 2060, thanks to a general sterilization of sperm.
What oncologists and toxicologists?
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Environmentalism sees itself as the fulfillment of all earlier critiques. "There are only two solutions," Bolivian president Evo Morales declared in 2009. "Either capitalism dies, or Mother Earth dies."
A committed socialist president of a no mark South American nation says Capitalism must die? Shock Horror!!
The point being these can be viewed as quite disturbing statements until such time as you delve a little deeper? To perhaps see and understand the hidden agenda's of the persons saying them!
To be honest when it diverged into a bit of scripture at the end I lost the thread of it. What was the aim of the writer? To demonstrate that this micro management exists? Some of us reached that conclusion quite some time ago.
The British population is spoon fed what the powers to be wants it to know, from this it is able to manipulate public opinion whichever direction it wants it to go in. There is even evidence of this right here in this thread!!