I prefer napalm, but given its domestic short supply, Styrofoam will do.
Posted on 03/30/2014 3:40:12 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Yeah but nobody seriously wants to turn the lights off for good. Earth Day isn’t the end of civilization but rather is a tool civilization uses to manage its anxieties.
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Environmentalism is, finally, a death wish. It is an intensely personal claim that the believer is not worthy of life. It must end in suicide if its adherent is faithful. Environmentalism ritualizes ignorance. It is most appropriate that its adherents celebrate their religion by living, if for only an hour, in total darkness.
For the living, turn on every light, honk every horn, brighten every corner, fill every second of that bleak hour with hope and joy and light.
By jove I think you’ve got it. :-)
Ideological movements such as this depend on this sort of emotional bonding to create a community of believers and allow them to identify themselves by contrast to the non-believers outside the movement. It's a herd mentality disguised as a cause. To be outside the group is to be despised and acted against, and this absolutely extends to both personal and state violence: ask the Jews. Twice in the last week the jailing of non-eco-conformists has been advocated in the public media. It is profoundly silly and potentially very dangerous.
What Greenfield describes here is the wide streak of nihilism within the philosophy of the environmental movement: the Noble Savage, Rousseau redux or rather regurgitated. It was laughable then and remains so. That doesn't mean that its adherents won't try to hurt people if it makes them feel good.
Great article!!
That is a great idea, too bad my laptop is broken
Amen, FRiend.
Any lingering regret at apparently lacking the verbosity gene is instantly swept away in the presence of a truly gifted pen like that of the Sultan.
I mean seriously, the guy writes a daily column, ipso facto he's able to churn out all that in no more than 24 hours, time after time !
:-( whaaaaaaa ! <stomps feet>
Who can get past the first four words? One more amazing piece by Greenfield....
Granted, it’s a little out of context, but every Earth Hour I’m reminded that “people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19).
If the Earth Day crowd wanted to make a practical point that relatively few could actually disagree with, they could remind people to turn off their lights in the daytime when they’re unneeded and wasteful. But I wasn’t born into a society with electric lighting, just to waste a Saturday evening sitting in the darkness.
Between Greendfield and Steyn, I'm green.... with envy.
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