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Also consider the dynamics of territorial disposition: if the Russians really do recover the entirety of Ukrania, do they officially grant the territories of the “Trans….” districts to their neighboring countries, or do they maintain the present borders and demonstrate their moral rectitude by treating the Ethnic citizens as well as the ethnic Russians in those districts and encouraging trans-border integration?
Simply being a “good guy” and doing a “good deed” can be its own reward, but in our world these days it is advantageous to provide active ongoing evidence (and dispel historical grievances).
Interesting decisions to be made about appearances — of empire-building versus regional, mutually beneficial integration of peers.Just a side-note here: recognize that at least one reason that the Russians (not “Putin”) haven’t launched their famous “spring offensive” is that they know full well that the UAF is out of ammo and they consider attacking and killing unarmed men (and children and women) to be dishonorable.
Perhaps killing unarmed Nazis might be considered a semi-legitimate exception, but how to sort them out from afar?eugyppius on the “EMO.” Best meta-analysis yet, takes us out of the weeds and into the light of day:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bill-gates-the-global-depopulation
Rather discouraging, but who really thought we faced a simple challenge? At least now we see the depths and origins of much that otherwise doesn’t make sense. Thank you, eugyppius…
Theists versus Atheists…. Ho hum. False dichotomy.
Theists versus Atheists versus Agnostics… Ho Hum. False trichotomy.What none of these three seem able to do is establish some reason (other than narcissistic projection and identity-myth mongering) why any of this matters, why even bother to ask the question?
What if this entire conversation were magically to disappear from our civilization – i.e., if the biological-level religion-algorithms were to be wiped from our genomes (and also from the cultural and social levels)?
Would we be better off?
Would some mad genius reinvent the whole noise?
What if we add a fourth position (or non-position, if you will): that of indifference? As we maintain to the squabbles of small children?
Lots of noise, little signal…OK, Guys… What is the URL/WebLink to directly access the “New Tech Exclusive” ranter who is so entertaining and right on? What is his name (if he even tells us)?
He is in the Comment 131056 above, from Oroboros.
And is he the Worm Oroboros, or some kind of Mobius strip? We should all be so lucky…
AFKTT: The inability (unwillingness) of people to distinguish between real world events and the fake narratives of The Empire of Lies and their insistence on lumping them into one basket is dismal, isn’t it?
And here we have a self-indictment. Dismal, indeed. AFKTT is failing to distinguish between the pseudo-science of the fake “Climate Change” narrative (aka “Global Warming”), the pseudo-science of the fake Covid and “vaccine” narratives, the fake puppet-show political narratives, and the fake economic narratives. Why? It’s not clear, except that a sensible person might suspect that he has some neurotic need to believe in at least something. A fear-addiction, perhaps?
They are all fake narratives, and those pretending to be based on “science” are the most fake of all, and the most thoroughly debunked (by actual science). Maybe AFKTT is simply unable to comprehend how science works — and that suggests he is also unable to comprehend how the so-called “real world” works. Back to kindergarten, fella…Let us not forget another prescient book that illuminates both the malignant and disfunctional featherbedding of “administrators” and “management,” as well as the corrupt and hypocritical exploitation of our institutions by the “owners” and their minions:
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, by Christopher Lasch, from 1996
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Elites-Betrayal-Democracy/dp/0393313719
From the Amazon listing: “[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites.” ―John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)
In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: “Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November’s election, but they would probably better employ their time reading the late Christopher Lasch’s book.” And in the National Review, Robert Bork says The Revolt of the Elites “ranges provocatively [and] insightfully.”
Controversy has raged around Lasch’s targeted attack on the elites, their loss of moral values, and their abandonment of the middle class and poor, for he sets up the media and educational institutions as a large source of the problem. In this spirited work, Lasch calls out for a return to community, schools that teach history not self-esteem, and a return to morality and even the teachings of religion. He does this in a nonpartisan manner, looking to the lessons of American history, and castigating those in power for the ever-widening gap between the economic classes, which has created a crisis in American society. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is riveting social commentary.
Garland hit for admitting DOJ prosecutes more pro-lifers than ‘terrorists’ because pro-lifers act in daylight –‘Any fool knows that the time of day has absolutely nothing to do with it,’ said one Twitter user | 1 March 2023 | Twitter users blasted U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday after he explained that the U.S. Department of Justice has prosecuted more pro-life activists blocking abortion clinic centers than pro-choicers firebombing pregnancy centers because pro-lifers operate in the “daylight.” Garland made the point that it was easier for the U.S. government to carry out justice against pro-lifers than pregnancy center arsonists in a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Wednesday. Garland’s claims came after several U.S. senators, including Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, grilled him on what they perceived as is a double standard in the DOJ’s treatment of pro-lifers versus violent pro-choice activists.
This is pathetic. It’s like the drunk looking for his lost keys under the streetlamp because “that’s where the light is.”
Turn OFF spelling and grammar auto-correct, but leave ON the alerts when the OS doesn’t recognize something. That way YOU are the authoritative editor, instead of some idiot AI.
Dr. D Rich, it may be that Sy Hersch’s expose of the NordStream demolition is a “subsidized” limited hangout designed to distract from even more damaging revelations and to protect even more important perpetrators.
The way back to truth can be even more fraught than the way from…DBS at 128278: What you are describing here is called “Control Fraud Racketeering.” It is the universal fundamental governance-strategy and tactic od the corporatized neo-fascist neo-feudal rule of the Owners and their minions. I describe CFR and its context at length here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p1eteywgj1qicym/CFR%2C%20CSE%2C%20%26%20PC.docx?dl=0
And many others have recognized and explored this recognized pattern online. Look it up, folks; you too will recognize it.
And here is an exploration of one application, in the Cannabis “scene” in California:
<a href=”https://www.dropbox.com/s/a59kpyvzsayun61/CannabisManifestoofError.docx?
dl=0″>https://www.dropbox.com/s/a59kpyvzsayun61/CannabisManifestoofError.docx?dl=0
Enjoy (if that’s what it is, except as a rueful enlightenment)…I think it’s appropriate to feel glee at the unravelling of the Biden scam, but remember that Biden (and everyone else we can actually see) is a puppet, Some may be players as well, but their double role is well disguised. All the puppets together make the scam work, and are assisted by opportunists, egotists, and moral (and physical) cowards.
So there’s a whole pyramid whose top we can’t distinguish or engage directly, and most of the sheep and many of the goats just giggle (or rage) at the puppets, and stop there. By design.
Also note the selection-process: the “vaccine” is thinning the herd of the sheep far more than it is that of the goats, structurally undermining the puppet-masters (and their overlords). Enough to “save civilization”?
Maybe we are better off if our narcissistic “civilization” as we know it is not saved, but rather compelled to reincarnate itself, perhaps even learning some humbling lessons from this glorious debacle.
I wouldn’t miss this for the world…Oroboros, would you be so kind as to share with us the URL of the California Pot Rant you shared two days ago? Many of us in that… what shall I call it?… community at the time of the fake-legalization Prop 64 anticipated exactly the outcome we are seeing now, and I’d like to share this video with others. Fortunately, Californians are allowed to grow six plants on their own, and I took great delight in teaching them how to grow five-pound (or even more) plants — so they could give it away and subvert the corrupt system. People in a state with a 20-year history of black-market and semi-legal Prop 215 marketplace know full well how how to operate mostly outside the “official” system, and so the fake-legalization scam was doomed from the start, as the huge glut of weed in California and migrating mysteriously all over the country has shown us. Only part of that is from “drug cartels,” for lots of ordinary folks grow and share generously, often even making honest money at it. Thanks…
Oroboros, would you be so kind as to share with us the URL of the California Pot Rant you shared yesterday? Many of us in that… what shall I call it?… community at the time of the fake-legalization Prop 64 anticipated exactly the outcome we are seeing now, and I’d like to share this video with others. Fortunately, Californians are allowed to grow six plants on their own, and I took great delight in teaching them how to grow five-pound (or even more) plants — so they could give it away and subvert the corrupt system. People in a state with a 20-year history of black-market and semi-legal Prop 215 marketplace know full well how how to operate mostly outside the “official” system, and so the fake-legalization scam was doomed from the start, as the huge glut of weed in California and migrating mysteriously all over the country has shown us. Only part of that is from “drug cartels,” for lots of ordinary folks grow and share generously, often even making honest money at it. Thanks…
Is there any way we can collectively avoid one or several “selection events” (accumulating to a “selection process”) that operates as a matrix of chaotic interoperating factors and with various nominal contents?
I would expect that “No” would be a consensus here.
And further, would the surviving “selected” learn the right lessons? And is there any way to define those in advance?How deep would the selection have to cut before enough people woke up that doubling down, and most if not all the other compensation biases, aren’t working?
What forms will the “pitchforks” take?
What’s it gonna take for us to do more, overall, than “muddle-through”? That has been the trajectory of the other catabolic civilizational collapses we know about, whimpers more than bangs.
So we don’t have to be Drama Queens, or, perhaps, even heroes, just steadfast with our personal integrity and values, however compromised to variable extents. Is this a “tend our own gardens” situation, or are there sufficient new intensifiers to demolish even that?
My personal aesthetic/policy is to “Slow down, lighten up, pay attention, and tell the truth.” Good luck to us all…https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan23/petro-yuan1-23.html
Charles Hugh Smith on petroyuans and gold-backed currencies; worthwhile nuances.
And why wouldn’t a global actor of renown plant a large mine in Davos well in advance of the annual gathering, during a down-time when “security” would be relatively light? And in the exact hall for the plenary session, to minimize “collateral damage”?
We know that is the kind of thinking more of the CIA-types than of the straight-men Rooskies, who aren’t into sacrificing their own people (unlike the Empire-of-Lies masterminds).
An anonymous blast would provide “plausible deniability,” with no trajectory to track back to a source.
And I wonder if this approach wasn’t used for NordStream, with the actual explosions triggered from afar long after the explosives were emplaced and the culprits sipping lattes in … where? DC? Langley? Maybe even Davos…Lost in his Carbon Cult religiosity, AFKTT simply seems unwilling to recognize that his precious standard-narrative climate “science” is as willfully corrupt and incompetent as the standard-narrative “vaccine science.” Both are terminally politicized, and both have ben falsified by genuine, legitimate, actual-factual scientific refutation. Both are an integral part of the fear-mongering (etc.) manipulations he so abhors.
Every “factoid” AFKTT offers in support of his dogma is either irrelevant, trivial, nugatory, based on false premises, or just flat wrong. Yet he persists in his folly, and demolishes his credibility with ad hominem rhetoric.
Perhaps he is neurotically hungry for something, anything, anything at all, to believe in.
Sad…What I have said on more occasions than I can possibly recall is that de-sequestration of the carbon that was se[q]uestered via photosynthesis in the distant past and release of that carbon into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide at such a rate that it overwhelms the natural systems of recycling carbon dioxide -both Geochemical and biochemical- is what is causing the massive increase in heat retention associated with overheating of the oceans and melting of previously stable ice.
I have been saying that for over 20 years.
What the Ignorant Fool AFKTT has failed to realize after twenty years of reciting this doxology of religion-like belief is that during those twenty years genuine scientists have falsified every one of its tenets. EVERY SINGLE ONE.. It has become pseudo-scientific gibberish, and a refuge for craven egotism.
And the others pontificating on this matter with false “reasonableness,” trying to find some political middle-ground, are failing to realize that the Carbon Cult premise has been definitely falsified and merits no consideration. However, that it is false just tells us what is NOT happening to drive our routine changes in climate, but not what IS doing that.DBS:
Which view of existence is more fundamentally true, that there are existing things to be aware of, or that there is awareness of things existing?
Getting it right is pretty important.
Being able to distinguish sophistries is pretty important, too, along with specious dichotomies. It’s way too easy to get caught up in endless rightness-loops about questions whose answers become less-and-less significant and more-and-more arbitrary. And then it’s turtles all the way down…
It’s what I call the imploding death-spiral of “semiotic entrainment,” otherwise known in the ‘hood as “mind-fuck.”
Your question and its premises seem based in a reductionist-linearizing paradigm that has not surrendered to the complexities of what must pass, these days, for the “real world.” And since our monkey-mind cannot distinguish between surrender and submit, it doesn’t recognize that when its premises are wrong or just objectively irrelevant (i.e., ‘made up’), it will ask the wrong questions, get the wrong answers, and reach the wrong conclusions. It will fight to be “right,” while missing just about every boat in port.One seditious answer to your question might be, “Neither, for both are necessary to develop a sane experience of ‘existing things’ and our ‘awareness(es)’ of them. Both those processes are interoperative and iterative. ‘Sane thoughts’ isolated on their own is ultimately an oxymoron.”
A couple of random thoughts…
Graham proposes to “take out” Putin. Putin notifies the DC decision-makers (through their minions) that if he is assassinated, he will have left behind hard double-blind orders that will missile-destroy one of DC, NYC, or London. You takes your chances. So keep me alive, Scumbags.
Russia blitzkriegs Ukrania (totally reversing his Chinese drip-torture 5G warfare to date). He outright executes the Azovs and fellow-travellers, and then drafts all remaining Uke soldiers into the Russian military to serve out a probationary term in farthest Mongolia. He gives Lviv province to Poland (perhaps lightening some old wounds), whatsits-name to Hungary, Transnistria to the Moldavians (or tantalizes the Romanians with it), keeps most of the east and center as an integral part of Russia, and builds a puppet Uke “Brazilia” so Kiev becomes a backwater.
The lies are so thick that it becomes more fun than serious to riff on the possibilities. Fiction just can’t be stranger than fact these days. Or shall we call them “truths of omission”?
Thanks to Ilargi and the Commentariat for a great year converging into sanity. We may not know exactly who is running this war-show, or why, but we sure recognize and interpret increasingly clearly the patterns we see, and become wiser for it.Oh, and your non-climate premises all merit consideration. Whence the blindness about the climate folly?
AFAIK – I second all that Dr. D says about “collapse’” (or should we say “COLLAPSE”?). And about your climate fetish, since all of your premises are wrong, you are asking the wrong questions, getting the wrong answers, and reaching the wrong conclusions. Not only the premises, but the methodology, as well.
Whoops! But it’s “reasonable.” Good luck with that…For what it’s worth, I have in Thunderbird v. 102.6 on my iMac a complete archive of all Jay Hanson’s listserve e-mails between 1997 and 2016. It is 910 MB on my disk; 954 MB as a .sbd file when exported from T’bird (that becomes a 291 MB .zip file). It is complete, and thus huge.
I would be happy to share this with anyone who can manage the transfer and use the files to import into their mail client (or to post online on, say, DieOff Revived — Hello, Steve!)
I believe that T’bird can export in other formats, but profess insufficient expertise.
The archive ended in 2016 because Jay kicked me off the list (and not for the first time) for being what the more retarded of us would now call a “climate denier.” Even the most astute of us have our blind spots, so some compassion is called-for.
Send or post contact information, and I’ll respond. There has to be some practical way to transfer this historical treasure-trove… suggestions welcome.
AlexanderSo what’s the deal? Did my last comment get “moderated”? So be it…
I find this sort of Carbon Cult pseudo-dialogue thing tedious, since the actual science is readily available (however incomplete it might be), and reveals the standard climate narrative as the embarrassment it is. However, an otherwise-astute person like AFAIK merits at least some attempted guidance toward a saner relationship with a poorly understood — and admittedly difficult and artificially emotionally intense — subject.
So if moderated, I consent, if only because I find the main streams of the conversation here to be much more challenging and intriguing in a real-world sense.
And so I repeat, Thanks to all who contribute here… Your efforts have made me a better person (or, at least, a better informed and deeper-understanding person).Chooch, yes indeed. It is daunting. I explore all the difficulties (and simplicities, as well) in that Do you believe... doc in my Dropbox. Computer-based models are rather a joke, and I explore that aspect as well.
There are few easy answers in this domain, and it is a great example of how we can falsify hypotheses (and thereby know with some certainty what isn’t happening) far more readily than we can develop certainty about what actually is happening.
But practically speaking, there is almost nothing humans can do about our changing climate beyond adapt to it, as we have for the past million tears. And please note that there is no actual evidence that any human activity has any significant effect on global climate, so the Carbon Cult is a giant scam and pretext for political control strugggles. Once that simple fact sinks in, the whole conversation is revealed for all its corrupt hidden agendas — and then that becomes the challenge, to explore the covert politics behind the fake-science conversation.
But it is difficult to remain simple in such a complex matter, whence the ambiguities and misinformation that fool so many people who have been bred and indoctrinated into obedient ignorant docility. This commentariat is outstanding for not being that way. Thanks to all…
Huh? “Fake website”? No substantive response? No “actual science”? This is sounding more and more neurotic. Get real.
Ad hominem? Seems pretty compassionate to me: we all have blind spots; to point a significant one out and still recognize astuteness in other areas is not only fair, but a kindness and perhaps even generous.
So what’s your point, AFAIK? What’s the payoff? What’s it take for you to get real in this highly-structured discipline of science?
The climate narrative that AFAIK espouses so desperately is the The Science(tm) narrative promulgated by the desperados-in-charge and their captive “experts” and “authorities.” Their “science” is terminally politicized, and falsifiable almost effortlessly (all available online to any kindergartener who bothers).
The real climate science is difficult, being an engagement with a complex non-linear open system, one that our habitual reductionist linearizing “science” cannot comprehend. To even begin to “grok” nature, one must adopt an evolving complexity-aware paradigm, and then be willing to be humble and earn to live with uncertainty. This requires a certain level of maturity generally not present in people who need to believe and who need to profess conventional beliefs to maintain their social status and personal identity-myths.
This is a challenge significantly more difficult than most people can engage, and this is still difficult for people who can see through mendacity in other domains less rigorous (in other words, politics has no rigorous “scientific method,” even if we can be systematically skeptical and apply modern-paradigm engineered epistemology).
AFAIK: How come a graph that is deliberately terminated 95 years before the present is labelled ‘YOU ARE HERE’?
Does the perpetrator of this piece of deceit want to suggest that the present is the year 1927?
Or does the perpetrator of this deceit want to hide something -such as that data from recent decades shows a very different trend- in order to promote an entirely fake narrative?The non-idiot AFAIK reveals his idiot hysterics and ignorance about climate change science by asking a frantic and angry rhetorical question about what he characterizes as “deliberate” deception. Even a schoolchild can look into this matter and learn that the proxy data AFAIK is ranting about is presented as 100-year averages because of how the subject material is accumulated, preserved, and measured. And then there is the historical trajectory that matters far more than what is happening right now to outraged “victims” of deceit.
Simple enough, one would think. However, AFAIK has consistently missed every actual science boat in this domain. There must be some deep emotional wounding for him (or anyone, for that matter) to be so shrill and lost in his own “fake narrative” that he has somehow internalized in obeisance to a standard narrative he seems unable to falsify. That falsification is readily done, and at the simplest levels.Here, AFAIK, see if you can wrap your testy mind around this and learn the scientific method (this doc starts out simple, and gets as complicated as the subject matters require):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vrpxs5olpserhx/Do%20You%20%22Believe%22%20in%20Climate%20Change%3F.docx?dl=0And since I am willing to forgive AFAIK his follies, please forgive me for all the snark in this doc…
And for more on the scientific method and its maturing sequellae, try this work-in-progress doc on for size:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vnz3ml5z730mds/Epistemological%20Engineering.docx?dl=0And here’s Karl Denninger on cryptos (and also note the comments):
But wait. What about this engineered (contrived) failure of cryptos as a setup for Central Bank digital “currencies”? Wipe out all the current ones (well-deserved, for the most part) and then induce/con the gullible dupes that still trust the government (and its central-bank owners) into accepting the “official” one.
“Methane” is a nothing-burger. Whoops, now I’m a “methane-denier.” Horrors!
Better that than being than an ignorant idiot-dupe and fellow-traveller. Learn the actual, factual science, kids, and stop making fools of yourselves. Learn the absorbtion-spectra of these radiative gasses, and how the atmosphere is already saturated, such that adding more does next-to-nothing. Learn how “greenhouse effect” is a complete misnomer. Learn the basics. so you can revise your premises. It is just as available as the standard-narrative lies… If only you could (or would?) tell the difference.
And look within and try to figure out what has made you so vulnerable to being fooled and owned.From Dr. D:
Here’s a good rundown by Chris Hedges on the leadup to war:
“The West has been baiting Moscow for decades. I reported from Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. I watched these militarists set out to build what they called a unipolar world — a world where they alone ruled.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/10/24/chris-hedges-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/
AFAIK:
“When your premises are wrong, you will ask the wrong questions, get the wrong answers, and believe in them”
Absolutely!
It also helps, when making political arguments and emotional arguments, to ignore all the facts and make up your own shit as a replacement for facts! (as all politicians in NATOstan nations do).Political arguments? Yes, universal. Scientific arguments? Not on your life. In science we have much-more-readily-available objective facts, which, despite all the politicization of science, totally falsify the standard narrative as it relates to both epidemiological and climate science (both intense in the propaganda-mill over the past few years).
So you in particular should stop ignoring all the important truths, making shit up, and just prattling the Carbon Cult fear-mongering that is being used by those same politicians (as dupes and puppets of their Lords and Masters). It’s not enough to be able to see through the political lies; to not be a dupe yourself you have to be able to see through the “science” lies as well.
The information to accomplish that is as readily available online as the lies, were you to bother to look and dig deeper into the complexities and nuances, and to acknowledge the incomplete nature of contemporary climate science as compared to the specious certainty of the politicized-science lies. So shut up until you do your due diligence. Otherwise you disgrace yourself and undermine your credibility.
What is the origination of your climate blind-spot? Why subscribe to this religion-like folly, that is even more dangerous to our civilization than most of the more-obviously-political lies? In ultimate fact, your politicized version of “climate denial” is just another political lie, and it appears to have fooled you by pretending to wear a white lab coat.
Do you have an emotional fear-fetish that blinds you in this area?
Let us know. Explain yourself (and outside the narrow range of in vitro factoids and fakey “reasonableness” you rely on so far).It appears that AFKTT can’t tell the difference between in vitro and in vivo. And makes up “units” of… something… something probably as meaningful as “average global temperature.” Total gibberish, but it’s “reasonable.”
When your premises are wrong, you will ask the wrong questions, get the wrong answers, and believe in them (especially if those premises are belief-based — ie, religious in nature). Belief is the sanity-killer.Once again, EVERYTHING that AFAIK is saying about climate is either just dead wrong or irrelevant. Either he is a shill for some seductive power-bloc, a Climate Cult religious nut, or willfully ignorant on this issue. There is a sufficiency of accurate, non-panic-porn, genuine-science information readily available; perhaps AFAIK needs the neurotic certainty that contemporary climate science cannot deliver — impeded, as it is, by politicization and complexity. But progress is being made, and it isn’t leading anywhere near the “reasonable” fantasies AFAIK prattles on about.
Ironically, the best estimates of future climate are consonant with the paleo-climate record of the past 5000 years that is leading us down into another glaciation.
Well shiver my timbers, Matey,
The mystery remains why AFAIK can be so incisive in his skepticism of the political Standard Narrative while at the same time be such a fatuous science-denier about our actual understanding of climate variability, and a vapid toady to the climate-panic energy-control aspects of that Narrative. Puzzling…
I reckon that some people just cannot be consistent in applying their intelligence, and have belief-bound blind-spots in their worldview. Sad…Fully agree with DBS about AFKTT’s energy essay (and others of his, as well). It’s not too fawning, I trust, to describe them as brilliant.
it’s interesting how in some matters (mostly political and logistic) many people can apply their pattern recognition algorithms and intuitive common sense, and come up with genuinely insightful commentary — even, occasionally, wise.
However, when addressing science matters clouded by a “consensus,” prejudiced by a belief that science is simplistically “logical,” and crippled by indoctrination into beliefs about the infallibility of reductionist linearizing semi-science, too many people completely fail at sanity and realism.
This is true of the climate noise, about Covid and its “vaccines,” about nutrition… the list goes on and on.
When I read (fairly often) people quoting the late and lamented Al Bartlett that “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function…”, I recognize that that inability is a subset of our collective inability to comprehend complex non-linear systems.
Both those inabilities are being challenged by an increasingly obvious need to develop a working complexity-ware paradigm, however tentative and nascent, with which to adequately address our real-world challenges (since our present paradigm is failing us every day in every non-trivial way).
So it is with compassion that I propose that AFKTT (and many others) go back and re-assess from scratch his climate-change beliefs, and stop pretending mastery quite so aggressively and foolishly — which subverts his credibility in other domains.
The genuine science is available for that process; however, it delivers uncomfortably indeterminate explanations of how climate-change works overall. At the very least, though, it entirely falsifies the politicized conclusions of the corrupted pseudo-science used to justify its social manipulations.
So snap out of it!Science is not “logical;” science is factual.
It is people that are “logical,” and they can only be logical with what they know and within the constraints of how they think. And logic only works in a simple-minded way, with few elements, even when multiple syllogisms are tortured into interacting.
Logic is rhetoric, and misleads the ignorant and stupid into traps of folly.
Everything that AFKTT says may be “logical,” but it has all been falsified by facts, and his insecure claque trots right along, using (can you believe it?) AFKTT as an “authority.”
“Ocean acidification” is his latest fatuous claim, with no actual physical evidence to support it, only “logic” that leaves out most of the facts and is based on in vitro “experiments” that include a tiny subset of the complex interactions found in Nature (in vivo). The kindest thing we can say about that is that it’s pretentious and pathetic.
And most pathetic of all is that the actual, increasingly complexity-aware science is available to all who can look past the politicization of pseudo-science and the propaganda-driven belief-structures and status-seeking alignments of the insecure and cowardly (or at least hypocritical).
That this nascent science it still indeterminate should only bother the neurotic who find emotional solace in certainty within the Mob.
Snap out of it!
