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tomo,
Yeah, it's only in recent years I've heard about Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged. Have read a few quotes from it; seem pretty right.
I suspect the standard reading lists are one of the differences between our upbringing and an American one. Other books that didn't figure for me, but are apparently widely read in America: The Great Gatsby and Moby Dick. Somewhat on the same theme, it's odd how often Jack the Ripper comes up in American drama.
Watched the Jimmy Dore interview. Worthwhile, though mostly reinforcing my own views (especially the part about left/right tribalism missing the main game). We do seem to be snookered. Trump sets a pattern of *some* hope, but how long will his gains last, and can they be replicated in the UK and Aus?
Robert Swan
https://youtu.be/2W4HKi5Tpb0
tomo
Robert
Topher's "you can ignore reality but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality" is attributed to Ayn Rand ... I know the name but never read a work...
A net zero application is obvious - but the scampering and screeching baboons who've embraced the fantasy just turn up the volume and vehemence of the mantras like some crowd in a low budget 1960s horror movie.
It really is grim shit when you get all the hollow stock phrases and buzzwords repeated endlessly, and wholly phlogistony science parroted endlessly by The Guardian et al...I remember all the repetition and rhythm of Roman Catholic Catechism, I see/hear the tortured language and naked delusion of religious zealotry embraced by dimwits.... (and mendacious rascals)
tomo
tomo,
Topher seems slightly on the optimistic side describing it as the "final throes". I'm afraid between renewable energy, global warming, immigration, diversity, decolonisation, ... there's quite a bit more throeing in the works.
Today Jo Nova points at Labour's moral relativism. Apparently modern slavery is acceptable as long as they're forced to work on renewable energy gadgets.
Robert Swan
https://i.ibb.co/WvB7x4Gx/the-smell.jpg
rather whiffy that - shame Soros Snr. won't do porridge really....
There's going to be more....
tomo
Tomo,
While America is abandoning ESG and dIvESity and moving back to actual forms of energy production it appears us here in the UK, and Europe, are doubling down on diversity and net zero to compensate for the loss of America to the globalist cause.
Mailman
Topher lists eco fantasies detritus heading into the dunny?
tomo
sobering numbers to anybody with a functioning brain....
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1904039632657903706
tomo
Funny that the *withdrawing* of US funding at Australian universities gets described as "foreign interference". Might be a healthy thing to prohibit all foreign funding.
Hardly a surprise that EVs don't make very good police cars. Working online from the charging station must be nearly as productive as the working from home wheeze.
Robert Swan
Pretty good Brendan O'Neill conversation with Jonathan Sacerdoti, discussing the Israel/Gaza situation and the vocal minority in the west supporting Hamas.
In honour of the 5-year anniversary of COVID, this half-hour montage of overreach was put together. Most of it was familiar enough, but some of the care home footage was very sad.