The court of Cnuts has decreed that the world will be saved
by their mastery of the planetary weather systems. Turning back the tides and
turning down the thermostat of the world, they will ensure peace, prosperity
and energy security for your children and their children’s children. According
to @toryboypierce all it took was fourteen days, 30,000 people, five million pieces of paper and 21,000
tonnes of carbon emissions and if the Paris Agreement fails to meet its almost
certainly unverifiable objectives, meh, none of them are going to be around to
take the blame anyway. The facts will change to fit the future, just as they are
changed to paint the past.
The world leaders are experts in nothing but politics. Getting
a sniff of corrupting power from early activism, they grow ever further from the
people they want to rule. Not govern, not lead but simply rule. The kind view
says that they are entirely in the thrall of advisers with no means themselves
of telling bullshit from bollocks, but some of the alternative narratives must surely
get through. In which case they must hold their noses and grit their teeth as
they vote for ever more punitive measures to control the little people. So completely
has the establishment accepted the new climate orthodoxy, dismissing all
dissenting voices, that it is almost a crime to say you’re not totally convinced.
Ignoring the demos – the very opposite of democracy – is becoming
the norm. I’m coming to an age where I am allowed to be bewildered; maybe even
expected to be bewildered. COP21 was never brought about because of the demands
or wishes of ordinary voters. Flood victims didn’t point to the skies and see
chemtrails and climate change and lobby for action; most only discovered that
their homes were built on floodplains when those plains did what they naturally
do from time to time. Nobody expected anything other than flooding once funding
for dredging river channels was halted on some EU whim, but now we must call it
evidence of climate change. Every media outlet, every spokesman, appears to
have accepted without challenge that this is so.
The ‘opinion’ of the masses is manipulated by the
activism and propaganda of a relative noisy few. Nobody wants to be the baddie,
so the bullies gang up and label those they disagree with as beneath the
dignity of debate and deny them, through their hissing, spitting hateful
rhetoric, a platform. Even the self-appointed label of ‘progressive’ oozes
self-righteousness; what lumbering ape would want to halt progress? Meanwhile
progress towards the over-regulated, heavy-handed state continues and the many
who want to resist it are dismissed as ‘populist’ and naïve.
In this article in The Economist it states that “In America and Europe, right-wing populist politicians are on the
march. The threat is real” and that “populist
ideas need defeating.” Really? You’re saying that simply because a lot of
people don’t want what you want, their views should be rejected? And why ‘threat’?
If you don’t like what you see your governments colluding to do, now you
are the threat? Whether you object to the importation of third-world terrorism,
or the anti-patriotic dilution of national identity, or the destructive
influence of enforced multiculturalism, or the indoctrination of your children to
never question climate change, your fears now make you enemies of the state.
Eyes wide shut...
In France, tactical voting by coalitions of other parties
has denied electoral gains to Marine Le Pen’s ‘populist’ Front National, but even The Guardian recognises the election “consisted
of establishment parties [trying] desperately to outwit what they warned was a
racist, xenophobic, islamophobic and overwhelmingly dangerous party.” Once again, a party which represents the
views of many millions is dismissed as the ‘dangerous’ enemy within. Just what
is it that western 'leaders' have against their own populations? For two weeks
they expended hot air in their fantasy about controlling future weather. They
might better have addressed themselves to understanding the very real winds of
change already blowing across the land.
