Comments on: Provocative Sentences

By: djf

djf — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:00:50 +0000

Andrew, they may not actually believe that world will end unless we do what they tell us, but they certainly do believe that, for whatever reason, the West should transfer wealth to the developing world. The elites of China and India eagerly expect us to send them our money forthwith. Of course, I’m sure the rich people in China and India are not worried about the end of the world but about enriching themselves.

By: ColoComment

ColoComment — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:19:40 +0000

If anyone is oppressed in my household, ’tis I. By his mere presence, my dog forces me to feed him, take him for walks, brush him, trim his nails, brush his teeth, clean his ears, play with him and keep him entertained. My word, I must even take him on my vacations!
In return, he graciously acquiesces in sitting and lying down when I politely request, and keeping me company overnight on the floor by my bed (he snores.)
Who is the oppressed, who the oppressor?
PS: my NPR station plays music during the middle 5 hours of the day when he’s listening. He tells me that it makes him feel more “cultured.”
PPS: nor has he indicated a yearning for thumbs (a la Enzo in “The Art of Racing in the Rain”) so that he might change radio channels!

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:46:30 +0000

His dog is going to start framing everything in terms of am oppressor-v-oppressed paradigm.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:43:36 +0000

Yes, I got that too. Arnold explained that it isn’t about the logic of the position as much as the rhetoric.

Turns out I have been too charitable in assuming they actually believe it!

By: djf

djf — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:45:05 +0000

Your poor dog!

By: djf

djf — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:43:24 +0000

It has become apparent over the years that one of the main drivers of the global warming hysteria is the desire of the global ruling class to find a rationale for mandating massive wealth transfers from the developed world to the developing world (including major powers like China and India) and enforcing reduction of living standards in the West. We are now told that, unless we in the West submit to such measures, the world will end! This fits quite well into the oppressor/oppressed axis.

By: foobarista

foobarista — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:24:43 +0000

Anyone looking at what gets the “left” excited these days sees this clearly.

Environmentalism, anti-GMO organicism, and NIMBYism are all about elite passions. Old-school worries about the poor and the workingman are passe, and we gotta keep lots of illegals around so we have plenty of low-paid guys to mow our lawns and clean our pools. We’ll also have “living wage laws” that can be ignored as we’ll have lots of illegals available to bypass them.

Even nominal concern for “the poor” is really about padding out the bureaucracy with lots of highly-paid jobs for elites.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:28:32 +0000

True. It just seems that on-net the rhetoric on global warming is anti-people, and poor people are the most people.

Maybe making net sense isn’t a requirement.

By: ColoComment

ColoComment — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:21:35 +0000

Because it’s the radio station that comes in the best at home, I leave NPR on during the day for my dog. So it’s pretty much on that station all day, every day, even during the weekend ‘cuz I’m too lazy to keep moving the channel selector. The program that makes me really laugh is Bob Edwards’s Living on Earth. It’s a virtual caricature of the extremist wing of the environmental movement.
Or when Ryssdal’s morning Marketplace has Robert Reich spewing his redistributionist dreck and I’ll be screaming at the radio while brushing my teeth.

By: Arnold Kling

Arnold Kling — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:09:08 +0000

Progressives are quite able to squeeze global warming into the oppressor-oppressed axis. The oil companies are the oppressors.