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y its focus on the denial of the processes that define an open society including independent judiciary an independent media wherein mutiple perspectives prevail preservation of free speech the promotion of independent thinking education free from dogma and censure of divergent views this sounds like a description of the enlightenment or at least a precis of its key tenets and principles but it appears necessary as we head into the pending us election at a time when censure conformity political corruption and collusion are all manifest and reinforced by a msm oligarchy a plethora of sjws and an apparent diffidence among millennials to reading divergent thinking and an understanding that the end never justifies the means today is the 5th of november and perhaps now more than ever the concept of blowing up the cesspit of elitist power structures has never had greater resonance i hope trump wins and i hope he wins in a landslide so that the us can begin to cleanse itself of political corruption collusion and gross inefficiency my hope is that this political transformation is the catalyst to a resurgence in the implementation of the processes of free democracy at the same time this will result in necessary and serious weakening in the progressive imposition of censure conformity and compliance that has masqueraded as the correct narrative of political discourse for the last 20 years posted by l graham smith at 10 11 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 03 2016 intellectual yet idiot elites favor democracy only as long as it suborns their abuse of power any deviation they consider invalid or stupid brexit the imminent election of trump signify an electorate re asserting control over democracy at the expense of a power elite abusing the power of office for personal advancement profit trump never positions himself as a paragon of virtue his appeal is his express willingness to hold the beltway cabal to account for all the collusion corruption tha t the wikileaks and clinton scandals are revealing the clinton foundation has clearly only ever been a vehicle for graft if there is no malfeasance why the illegal server the deletion of email records and the clumsy intervention of the obama lynch doj to obstruct the fbi investigations lastly if the abuse of power is not indictment enough people still want to find ways to excuse the cabal rather than amend their view or accept that a cleansing of the system is paramount not unsurprisingly i find so many who are virulently anti trump are the same people who thought trudeau as pm was a good idea wynne as premier was necessary and that climate is actually a pressing political issue iyi posted by l graham smith at 12 43 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday july 22 2016 resist the echo chamber of confirmation bias and presumptive thought nothing like politics to constrain manifest social media as an echo chamber of presumption confirmation bias such a massive waste of technology people are seriously afraid to think for themselves to cast a wide net in what they read watch listen to change is not our enemy throughout history progress is the manifestation of change intellectual growth what is the point of education if all it does is confine bully people into an acceptance of presumptive nar ratives and memes educational indoctrination breeds convergence and followers not creative dynamic learners the world is not static and the future needs divergent creative thinkers not drones who conflate a gpa with actual understanding and comprehension the echo chamber is the intellectual closed mind it is a norm that deserves and requires our active resistance posted by l graham smith at 9 58 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 07 2014 environmentalism as misanthropic narcissism in the latest in his series of excellent posts ben pile considers the central conundrum of contemporary environmentalism that as a popular movement it is fundamentally elitist and in opposition to most actions ideas and beliefs that stem from the principle of individual liberty environmentalism as an ideology is profoundly and irrevocably a stasist instrument for the enforcement of conformity to elite constructs pile notes that while the ideology of environmentalism is primarily a political construct it is never presented as such rather environmentalism is present as a moral imperative and compliance always is couched in terms of deep guilt and emotional rhetoric in its substance environmentalism relies upon presumption axiomatic constructs and referrals to authority to bolster its assertion of preferred nay essential actions to avoid the coming armageddon in reality the substance is always rather less dystopian and most if not all doom scenarios are invalidated and rendered moot by prosperity and continued advancements in technology a premise that environmentalism dismisses with derision rather than any valid consideration of the historical precedent of civilization to date pile concludes that environmentalism is merely misanthropic narcissism it is less real political ideology and more performance art a contemporary theater of illusion to delude seduce and ultimately suppress the masses into conformity and compliance with the preferences of an elite who are removed from the restrictions they impose on others the environment is a prop and its vagaries a mere contrivance to be used as necessary to invoke fear and provide justification for continued control of society environmentalism has assumed the mantle of political ideology as a proxy measure that illustrates the absence of true political debate and analysis it is the last vestige of stasist control in an era when stasism is an anachronism and the realization of individual freedom has never been greater in history far from being progressive contemporary environmentalism is a fundamentalist reactionary imposition of stasism and like all forms of fundamentalism it will be overthrown by the progression of change that is immutable because it is definitive to the human experience basic to change is the liberation of the individual sustainability is change change is sustainability environmentalism adopted the slogan but has never understood the defining construct of the narrative posted by l graham smith at 10 45 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 05 2014 when politics doesn t provide options recent elections in britain caused great dismay and conjecture causing many observers to condemn the irrationality and sanity of the populace this is part of a wider trend observable in all western democracies of alienation of the ruling elites a k a the clerisy from large parts of a populace disenfranchised by the edicts of an elite whose values they neither share nor embrace popular movements such as the tea party in the us are vilified by the intellectual elite and the mainstream media both largely misunderstand both the genesis and motives of such expressions of discontent the elite are simply unable to understand why their ideology could be rejected and thus they condemn what they can neither condone nor comprehend their ideology is inviolate so axiomatic that it can only be that the populace must be lacking in morality social responsibility or intelligence in starship troopers heinlein takes time to discuss the nature of morality and social responsibility he writes man has no moral instinct he is not born with moral sense you were not born with it i was not we acquire moral sense when we do through training experience and hard sweat of the mind t he instinct to survive is human nature itself and every aspect of our personalities derives from it anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations a scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual s instinct to survive and nowhere else and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival note the motivations at each level and resolve all conflicts we have such a theory now we can solve any moral problem on any level self interest love of family duty to country responsibility toward the human race the basis of all morality is duty a concept with the same relation to group that self interest has to individual social responsibility above the level of family or at most of tribe requires imagination devotion loyalty all the higher virtues which a man must develop himself if he has them forced down him he will vomit them out the lesson that heinlein provides is powerful there can be no social responsibility where there is no shared identity nor sense of community if an elite ideology of politics intellectualism and environmentalism is sufficiently removed from the populace to be merely the perspective of the oligarchy which it benefits then there will be no resonance no acquired sense of morality no behavioral change in compliance with that ideology there will only ever be resentment disconnection and political ennui provided the elite do not over step their intrusion into daily life they will be tolerated the political process offers a small range of alternative elites from which to choose but when the intellectual and political elites become too intrusive too incumbent on daily life and too arrogant to perceive the discontent they are prompting then a change will occur revolution is a big jump for any democracy so instead discontent first manifests itself in the recognition of populist movements many of these may appear to be simplistic xenophobic and divisive in their ideology no matter it is not the substance of the movement that appeals to the disenfranchised it is the very act of signifying rejection of the status quo of the dogma morality ideology and accompanying polices being imposed by the oligarchy for environmentalists especially this is a hard message to absorb as it contrasts so markedly with their own image they have of themselves posted by l graham smith at 12 02 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 06 2014 ipcc over estimates climate sensitivity posted over at wuwt is a link to a significant new report by lewis and crick examining climate sensitivity along with the report is a foreword by judith curry in which she writes the sensitivity of our climate to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide is at the heart of the scientific debate on anthropogenic climate change and also the public debate on the appropriate policy response to increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere climate sensitivity and estimates of its uncertainty are key inputs into the economic models that drive cost benefit analyses and estimates of the social cost of carbon this report by nic lewis and marcel crok addresses this gap between the ipcc assessments and the primary scientific literature by providing an overview of the different methods for estimating climate sensitivity and a historical perspective on ipcc s assessments of climate sensitivity the report also provides an independent assessment of the different methods for estimating climate sensitivity and a critique of the ipcc ar4 and ar5 assessments of climate sensitivity as lewis notes the report is significant as it shows that contrary to the impression given by the summary for policymakers the observational scientific evidence in the main ipcc ar5 report actually supports much lower estimates of how sensitive the climate system is to greenhouse gas levels both in the long term and over the remainder of this century the narrative for cagw has been loosing impetus for some time despite this the data are still being juiced to imply and promote a crisis not evidenced by empirical observation bottom line the gcms overestimate future warming by 1 7 2 times relative to an estimate based on the best observational evidence cagw isn t happening won t be happening in the future probably never was happening climate changes as a dynamic natural system always has always will humans do modify both the weather and the climate but not near to the degree that has been implied nor implicated in advocacy of the cagw narrative severe weather has always been a feature of human occupancy of the planet and there is insifficient evidence to support the contention that either the frequency nor intensity of weather events has changed in a manner inconsistent with the historical record climate was and remains a proxy for a supposed scientific imperative for a set of political policies designed to suppress growth control economic development centralize governance and curtail globalization these policies reflect a particular morality and ideology that is both elitist in design and lacking on poplar support and resonance hence the attempt to co opt science as a mechanism to compel compliance by invoking an authority that is difficult to challenge and contradict after all this the ipcc the hockey stick the blogs climategate and the constant revisionism from global warming to agw to cagw the central issue remains the provision of cheap energy and not climate and without the stigma of cagw what is the rationale for windmills for solar panels for constraint and increasing carbon taxes fracking has removed the peril of an energy crisis for the west what is the cheap energy option for africa why is energy not dropping in price and fueling a new age of innovation and economic prosperity and lastly absent of any climate crisis what possible purpose is there to zero carbon as a goal remove the presumption of cagw dismiss the narrative and the value of pursuing zero carbon as a goal is similarly removed posted by l graham smith at 11 37 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 21 2014 scary bananas how environmental exaggeration harms emerging economies posted by l graham smith at 2 18 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest ennui or just resignation read dale franks post over at qando today about how his blogging had lost its passion and become steadily less frequent less inspired and less purposeful i empathized then i read don easterbrook s rebuttal to the reaction he d received to a previous post pointing out the correlation between pdo cycles and temperature cycles and tim ball s post on climate as a political dichotomy and not one of science and i despaired what they write is so transparently obvious to anyone with an open mind on the topic but apparently open minds are in short supply despite the age of enlightenment and the extant technology to bring that enlightenment to all between my empathy and my despair was i enveloped with a profound sense of ennui with the continued intransigence of political authority and the academy to neither see nor accept what people like easterbroo...