It seems to me that the problem is we are in effect ruled by the dinner party circuit. That is the in group / elites / credentialed classes only talk to each other and only listen to views that coincide with their own / only express views that others around the table will accept. Robert’s inability to watch more than the first 11 minutes of the film is caused by the cognitive dissonance it arouses in him - “if this is even half way true, I’ve been living in a hall of mirrors and lies all my life”. How to crack the dinner party bubble - that is the question. I’m praying the new solar minimum, which I think is starting now and will continue until 2050 or thereabouts, will so discombobulate the global boiling crazies that they may actually leave the table. Or their heads will explode.
I think your diagnosis of cognitive dissonance is correct.
Yes, these people exist in a bubble. We all do to some extent but our bubbles have much less influence over other people's lives. These people can do (and have done) real and long term damage to everyone else's well-being.
The Post Office Horizon episode showed that they are much more concerned with losing 'face' than with the well-being of good, honest everyday folk.
You're right about a reduction in Solar output - I believe this year or next year is the predicted peak. The one thing we can be sure about is that the climate cultists will find a way to extricate themselves from responsibility without losing face.
Your friend is not a critical thinker, obviously. He follows the opinions of whoever the msm tell him are the right people to listen to and then congratulates himself on not looking beyond. Quoting Wiki - oh dear, he is an innocent. I think the essence of his complacency is a failure to appreciate the depth and breadth of corruption in the world and the fact that many people have less than altruistic agendas. He is doubtless a decent person but he naively thinks everyone is like him.
Yes, I think that there's a bit of him - and those who share his beliefs - in all of us. We all desperately want the world to be an honest game and fall back on self-deception and the word of 'authority' when the alternative is too awful to contemplate.
Exactly! I like that meme that did the rounds a while back, with two queues at two booths (like Lucy's on the left!) - one was headed 'Comfortable Lies' and had a long snaky queue; the other was headed 'Uncomfortable Truths' and had a couple of people queuing for it. I think that sums up our predicament.
CO2 causes global cooling? 😂
It seems to me that the problem is we are in effect ruled by the dinner party circuit. That is the in group / elites / credentialed classes only talk to each other and only listen to views that coincide with their own / only express views that others around the table will accept. Robert’s inability to watch more than the first 11 minutes of the film is caused by the cognitive dissonance it arouses in him - “if this is even half way true, I’ve been living in a hall of mirrors and lies all my life”. How to crack the dinner party bubble - that is the question. I’m praying the new solar minimum, which I think is starting now and will continue until 2050 or thereabouts, will so discombobulate the global boiling crazies that they may actually leave the table. Or their heads will explode.
I think your diagnosis of cognitive dissonance is correct.
Yes, these people exist in a bubble. We all do to some extent but our bubbles have much less influence over other people's lives. These people can do (and have done) real and long term damage to everyone else's well-being.
The Post Office Horizon episode showed that they are much more concerned with losing 'face' than with the well-being of good, honest everyday folk.
You're right about a reduction in Solar output - I believe this year or next year is the predicted peak. The one thing we can be sure about is that the climate cultists will find a way to extricate themselves from responsibility without losing face.
Your friend is not a critical thinker, obviously. He follows the opinions of whoever the msm tell him are the right people to listen to and then congratulates himself on not looking beyond. Quoting Wiki - oh dear, he is an innocent. I think the essence of his complacency is a failure to appreciate the depth and breadth of corruption in the world and the fact that many people have less than altruistic agendas. He is doubtless a decent person but he naively thinks everyone is like him.
Yes, I think that there's a bit of him - and those who share his beliefs - in all of us. We all desperately want the world to be an honest game and fall back on self-deception and the word of 'authority' when the alternative is too awful to contemplate.
Exactly! I like that meme that did the rounds a while back, with two queues at two booths (like Lucy's on the left!) - one was headed 'Comfortable Lies' and had a long snaky queue; the other was headed 'Uncomfortable Truths' and had a couple of people queuing for it. I think that sums up our predicament.