Covid 2020 and the resulting mass psychosis has proven to me that the mass of people are not capable of any rational thought at all. Every article from you reinforces that. Folly marches on.
I wonder if you smacked these people who allege to lead us as hard as you could over the side of the head with a wet mullet it would make any difference.
You point out "incoherence" in thoughts and words! However the actions speak louder than words. The real intention is to acquire global fossil energy and material resources through wars, covert violence, and regime change to build EVs, solar PV, utility-size batteries, wind turbines etc... to save the planet while protecting democracy and human rights!
"I think Mr. Hudema would make a great replacement for the IEA’s Fatih Birol or even the UN’s Guterres. "
They're all cut from the same cloth. Charlatans. Liars for money.
Faith Birol may be a bit of a tragic figure. When he first took the job, I saw quite a few sensible positive statements about nuclear power from him. Almost simultaneous with statements about renewables that made no physical sense.
Now, AFAICT, he just spouts nonsense.
I like to think he was trying to do an honest job in his position and eventually someone had a "talk" with him. The tragedy is that he decided to keep the job rather than his integrity, but I don't know his personal situation. Maybe there's not much of a choice there for him.
How many jobs are available where you produce nothing, lie for a living and get well paid for it?
“How many jobs are available where you produce nothing, lie for a living and get well paid for it?”
I have heard estimates that it is about 30% of the US government budget. You basically described all of the people that work in the Washington DC beltway...
Irina, great line. “If the above statements sound a little bit incoherent, that’s okay — incoherence is the new black in political discourse.” Thanks for the great quote, I will of course credit you if I use it.
Thank you Irina for this article, even if I must swallow an Ibuprofen pill now to cure the headache produced by reading these quotations.
Problem is that so many people believe in it and just follow the current propaganda of "what is good". I'm musing sometimes how to take some profit out of it ... open a gas station, and sell "vegane 95 octane" or "veggie-diesel", of course with a large premium. Here in Germany you'll find a lot of people believing it, I'm sure. They buy preferably if a "vegan" attribute is on the object (food, clothing, you name it).
This is really, really said. Adding certain ideological labels to things, however meaningless, has turned into an excellent advertising tool. So many people are so eager to act responsibly they'd buy vegan carrots and potatoes if you offer them.
Thank you for this nice article. I do have one suggestion: there is a very established term that can be used a 1 to 1 replacement for the, in my book, inadequate phrasing of "mixed messaging" or "conflicting signals". The word is: doublethink. Some would file that under mental disease, but I'd categorise it as brain damage. Actual brain damage where neurons are not firing properly, akin to an engine whose cylinders do not fire with correct timings.
Doublethink is indeed the most accurate term but in all honestly quoting from "1984" depresses me and if I get depressed I can't work very well because what's the point, so that's why I try to avoid those quotes and terms. But if you're right and it is actual brain damage, we're probably doomed.
David Bohm elucidates this idea of "incoherence" as a form of cultural pathology to hide the implicate (order), that is, the real intentions while masquerading as something else producing undesirable outcomes for masses. They know that renewables and hydrogen are not going to work but unfortunately masses (subjects) have been brainwashed. This is really a problem of psychology and energy resources!
But to what end? This is the question that inevitably pops up in these discussions. No ruler wants their subjects to suffer too much because that's how revolutions happen and revolutions don't end well for rulers. Unless, of course, we see the rulers as puppets, then the picture changes.
Superb Irina, truly. A great read which reminds me of a phrase I picked up recently (and which I would love to attribute, but I can‘t remember who wrote it) along the lines of „if something has to be labelled politically correct it is to underline the fact that it is also factually incorrect.“
Covid 2020 and the resulting mass psychosis has proven to me that the mass of people are not capable of any rational thought at all. Every article from you reinforces that. Folly marches on.
Oh, they are, as long as there's encouragement. There isn't.
Winner, winner (tofu) chicken dinner..."incoherence is the new black in political discourse." They all sound like the Red Queen...
It DOES sound like something out of "Alice", yes!
If only it were legal for all of the oil, coal and gas companies to collude and just stop producing for 1-2 weeks.
“What you told us to keep it in the ground right?” “Are you sure you want us to turn it back on?”
That might actually flip this nonsense around as finally people would figure things out.
This is a sado-masochistic dream of mine, I admit.
The word "non-embarrassed" may be too gentle. Shameless seems more like it. And too stupid to see how stupid they are. Arrggh.
Umberto Eco had something to say about the shameless society. I might try to translate just this part, it's painfully true.
I wonder if you smacked these people who allege to lead us as hard as you could over the side of the head with a wet mullet it would make any difference.
It won't, they'll arrest you.
Josep Borrell is an idiot. Promoting the 3 biggest scams on the planet: wind, solar and hydrogen. This can only be a plan for deindustrialization.
You point out "incoherence" in thoughts and words! However the actions speak louder than words. The real intention is to acquire global fossil energy and material resources through wars, covert violence, and regime change to build EVs, solar PV, utility-size batteries, wind turbines etc... to save the planet while protecting democracy and human rights!
"I think Mr. Hudema would make a great replacement for the IEA’s Fatih Birol or even the UN’s Guterres. "
They're all cut from the same cloth. Charlatans. Liars for money.
Faith Birol may be a bit of a tragic figure. When he first took the job, I saw quite a few sensible positive statements about nuclear power from him. Almost simultaneous with statements about renewables that made no physical sense.
Now, AFAICT, he just spouts nonsense.
I like to think he was trying to do an honest job in his position and eventually someone had a "talk" with him. The tragedy is that he decided to keep the job rather than his integrity, but I don't know his personal situation. Maybe there's not much of a choice there for him.
How many jobs are available where you produce nothing, lie for a living and get well paid for it?
“How many jobs are available where you produce nothing, lie for a living and get well paid for it?”
I have heard estimates that it is about 30% of the US government budget. You basically described all of the people that work in the Washington DC beltway...
Irina, great line. “If the above statements sound a little bit incoherent, that’s okay — incoherence is the new black in political discourse.” Thanks for the great quote, I will of course credit you if I use it.
Thanks!
What a great read, as always.
Thank you!
Thank you Irina for this article, even if I must swallow an Ibuprofen pill now to cure the headache produced by reading these quotations.
Problem is that so many people believe in it and just follow the current propaganda of "what is good". I'm musing sometimes how to take some profit out of it ... open a gas station, and sell "vegane 95 octane" or "veggie-diesel", of course with a large premium. Here in Germany you'll find a lot of people believing it, I'm sure. They buy preferably if a "vegan" attribute is on the object (food, clothing, you name it).
This is really, really said. Adding certain ideological labels to things, however meaningless, has turned into an excellent advertising tool. So many people are so eager to act responsibly they'd buy vegan carrots and potatoes if you offer them.
Thank you for this nice article. I do have one suggestion: there is a very established term that can be used a 1 to 1 replacement for the, in my book, inadequate phrasing of "mixed messaging" or "conflicting signals". The word is: doublethink. Some would file that under mental disease, but I'd categorise it as brain damage. Actual brain damage where neurons are not firing properly, akin to an engine whose cylinders do not fire with correct timings.
Doublethink is indeed the most accurate term but in all honestly quoting from "1984" depresses me and if I get depressed I can't work very well because what's the point, so that's why I try to avoid those quotes and terms. But if you're right and it is actual brain damage, we're probably doomed.
Brain damage is reversible. If existing pathways can't be corrected, new ones can be built. Not easy, but certainly possible.
David Bohm elucidates this idea of "incoherence" as a form of cultural pathology to hide the implicate (order), that is, the real intentions while masquerading as something else producing undesirable outcomes for masses. They know that renewables and hydrogen are not going to work but unfortunately masses (subjects) have been brainwashed. This is really a problem of psychology and energy resources!
But to what end? This is the question that inevitably pops up in these discussions. No ruler wants their subjects to suffer too much because that's how revolutions happen and revolutions don't end well for rulers. Unless, of course, we see the rulers as puppets, then the picture changes.
Superb Irina, truly. A great read which reminds me of a phrase I picked up recently (and which I would love to attribute, but I can‘t remember who wrote it) along the lines of „if something has to be labelled politically correct it is to underline the fact that it is also factually incorrect.“
Thank you, Steven. Wise words, that quote.