This week, to the southern frontiers: Are we humans really "the rational animal?" Or are we more strongly inclined to be driven by gossip and fiction, with a chaser of tribal intolerance thrown into the blend?
Last week, it was Advantage Harari! The examples went something like this:
Tuesday, February 19: Rhodes Scholar ignores the Green New Deal, prefers to keep locking them up!This week, we move to "the southern frontiers"—to the boundaries of the rational impulse displayed by our species and tribe.
Wednesday, February 20: Who gives a fig about climate change? Two "cable news" nets take a hike!
Thursday, February 21: Nineteen to 24 years in the clink! Plus, targets on two more lawyers.
Non-Rhodes Scholar displays, apparently proudly, his fixation with a particular Cable News Host, a condition known as “derangement”.
ReplyDeleteThe TV has an off button, Bob. And also a channel changer.
And here I thought Bill Clinton was Our Own Rhodes Scholar.
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“Who gives a fig about climate change?”
ReplyDeleteAre you still getting the print editions of the Times and Post delivered to you, Bob?
Climate change is both a scientific reality and a religion. The religion includes many acts of so tiny a significance that their only impact is symbolic, like wearing a yarmulke in a synagogue. The Paris Accord is another essentially symbolic act. Nobody even pretend to believe it will stop the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. Statements about how terrible climate change is are also symbols. Talk won't solve the problem.
ReplyDeleteThe science involves doing better studies of how fast human activity contributes to global warming, whether global warming has other climatic effects, both the good and the bad results of CO2 emissions. Then there's the cost as well as the effectiveness of various proposed ways to deal with it. My understanding is that at present we have no effective way to prevent atmospheric CO2 from continuing to rise. Our best bet is to improve our infrastructure to better withstand the effects of warming and also continue to seek a new form energy that can hopefully replace fossil fuels.
Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of discussion about climate change focuses on the symbols. That make the discussion worthless.
Unfortunately, our political parties and our media render a rational discussion next to impossible.
DeleteHad Somerby wanted to join the conversation about the Green New Deal, he could have at least referred his readers to a couple of recent postings by his favorite blogger, Kevin Drum. Drum discusses climate change and the Green New Deal, but also voices his own thoughts about it. A novel approach.
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Delete"This week, we move to "the southern frontiers"—to the boundaries of the rational impulse displayed by our species and tribe."
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bob. We humans would like to know as much as possible about your species, lib-zombies.
Your tribe
If leftists really believed climate change was an immediate existential threat they would offer Trump everything he wants in exchange for action on climate change. They're lying or evil or both.
ReplyDeleteConversely, if Republicans really believed the southern border was really a "crisis", they would offer Pelosi and AOC everything they want in exchange for the wall. Republicans are lying, or evil, or both.
DeleteThis game is easy.
Hmm. Why would they offer AOC anything? She is a minor politician, not in charge of anything. Mocked by the zombie-leaders of her own fake 'party'.
DeleteAnd what does Pelosi want?
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