Congratulations, kids! You’re Pat Robertson.
Being as it is the other way around, they are engaging in pure projection:
"... if your self-image is invested in the idea that the world is catastrophically warming, you will be threatened by evidence that it is not. The other day, Taranto made the point that "for white liberals of a certain age (read baby boomers), an important part of their self-image lies in the assumption that conservatives are racist."
"The point of this self-serving narrative is obviously not to describe reality, but rather, to feel good about oneself. It is auto-therapy, as is so much of the liberal narrative. For the liberal, everyone who disagrees with him is racist, misogynist, "homophobic," "Islamophobic," "anti-science," contemptuous of the poor, etc.
"In each case, the characterization is simply a transparent projection deployed for the purpose of maintaining the self-flattering narrative. ..."
Monday, August 16, 2010
When Narratives Attack
by Robert Godwin, Ph.D (Clinical Psychologist)
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Michael Crichton, September 15, 2003 "Environmentalism as Religion"
"I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. ......
"Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment.
" Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe. ...Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible... How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline? There's a simple answer: we must institute far more stringent requirements for what constitutes knowledge in the environmental realm.
"I am thoroughly sick of politicized so-called facts that simply aren't true. It isn't that these "facts" are exaggerations of an underlying truth. Nor is it that certain organizations are spinning their case to present it in the strongest way. Not at all---what more and more groups are doing is putting out is lies, pure and simple. Falsehoods that they know to be false...
"At this moment, the EPA is hopelessly politicized. In the wake of Carol Browner, it is probably better to shut it down and start over...."