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.
DJ - we also use communication to influence our own brains, which is what many activists seem to do with placards and slogans. I'm sure Ed Miliband does wish to steal our mangoes and it's for the good of our grandchildren if we have far fewer mangoes.
dearieme - yes, the Chagos mess does show him to be a globalist underneath and British PM is merely a thin veneer.
Not only will net zero fail to achieve its objective, the objective itself is clearly foolish. They claim to "follow the science"; OK, let's do some science. The global warming crowd have been telling us for 40 years or more that the earth is overheating, the North Pole is going to melt, sea levels will rise and so on unless we take Drastic Action Right Now. Well, the coastline is pretty much where it always was (give or take normal erosion and silting), the Arctic Ocean is still icy, coral islands are still above water, etc.. in spite of sufficient Drastic Action not having happened yet.
In scientific terms their hypothesis has been falsified. QED.
"Ed Millipede is popular" a statement of fact that I just can't grasp. I think of it and my brain just resets and re reads the statement. My head hurts!
Barbarus - I agree - make numerous predictions, the predictions fail, therefore the basis of those predictions has been falsified. It's a weird kind of faith, not science.
Mike - popular within the party apparently, but I can't get to grips with it either - it says more than is comfortable about the party.
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