There is much to be said for staying on the surface of things when it comes to human behaviour mingled with social and political issues of the day. It can be better to stay with what we see instead of being drawn towards the intangible world of ideologies, thoughts, motives and covert scheming.
For example the UK Net Zero policy is clearly an absurdly impractical and expensive policy which cannot possibly achieve its claimed objectives. The wind doesn't always blow, the sun doesn't always shine. Pushing on with it is foolish - easy to see.
So that’s it, we stay on the surface of things, Net Zero is foolish and those who approve of it are fools. In other words, UK Energy Minister Ed Miliband is a fool preaching to fools and Keir Starmer is a fool for appointing him.
What about covert scheming? We might say Ed Miliband knows he is preaching foolishness to fools and this is how he retains his political popularity. It is to Ed’s political advantage to be a prominent leader of fools, preaching to their echo chamber.
Within the echo chamber, Ed Miliband is popular and it’s a big echo chamber with obvious political attractions. Yet the Net Zero echo chamber is a chamber of fools, including Ed. He’s in there. A senior Cabinet Minister preaches undignified foolishness to charlatans and fools instead of paying more attention to the surface of things.
That’s on the surface too – it’s undignified.
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Richard Dawkins reckoned that we don't use communication to pass on information but to influence the brains of our audience.
So "Look out there's a snake!" may be a socially valid warning but "Look out there's a snake! (and I can steal your mangoes while you are distracted)" is not socially valid.
Perhaps Ed Miliband wishes to steal our mangoes? And fund the Green/Industrial complex?
Two Teir Veneer.
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