Most of us are familiar with the Politically Correct (PC) World View. William Deresiewicz describes the view, which he calls the ‘religion of success,’ as follows:
There is a right way to think and a right way to talk, and also a right set of things to think and talk about. Secularism is taken for granted. Environmentalism is a sacred cause. Issues of identity – principally the holy trinity of race, gender, and sexuality – occupy the center of concern.
There are other beliefs that go with this religion of success:
Wind and solar will save us. Electric cars will make transportation possible indefinitely. Our world leaders are all powerful. Science has all of the answers. To me, this story is pretty much equivalent to the article, ‘Earth Is Flat and Infinite, According to Paid Experts,’ by Chris Hume in Funny Times. While the story is popular, it is just plain silly.
In this post, I explain why many popular understandings are just plain wrong. I cover many controversial topics, including environmentalism, peer-reviewed literature, climate change models, and religion. I expect that the analysis will surprise almost everyone.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 27, 2017.
Just look around the world and throughout recent history, and you will find a number of compelling cases where western-backed NGOs have been frequently acted as enablers for the military interventions, sanctions and economic blockades that followed. Look at Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iran and Sudan – all were given the ‘human rights’ treatment prior to aggressive western actions. In most cases, claims of human rights violations and exaggerated atrocity reports preceded western action.
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