With no data on cost/benefits of Norway's climate policies admitted to by the Finance Ministry, it's unlikely that we'll ever find out how much is stolen by these con-racketeers in Green
On the surface none of what they are doing makes sense, when judged from the People’s perspective, but they are guided by an entirely different perspective. Their agenda can be easily discerned by analyzing the real fruits of their labor. When we realize that their interests have utterly diverged from our interests, and that their agenda is anti-human in nature, then we begin to see what is happening and where they are leading us. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people are no longer capable of the most simple analysis. The ignorant set coupled with the technocratic servant set are the enablers without which the system could not function.
Ha,ha! Yes, we live in proximity to Amish communities and I cannot help but think they have exhibited greater wisdom from the rest of us. At least they are asking a fundamental question which we seem utterly incapable of asking - is this good for us, for the future of mankind? We have pretty much ceded the power behind this question to an utterly anti-human entity.
It reminds me of General Omar Bradley’s words:
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
Sadly, it's not merely our ethics that are in infancy--the acquired inability of most contemporaries (myself incl.) to deal with hardship of any sort is perhaps the bigger problem.
It is a direct result of our dependency on complex systems. This transition was automatic. Nobody asked us if we wanted it, like so many other aspects our lives. This is what I was alluding to with my Amish comment. They did not go for a ride like the rest of us. The other side of complexity coin is vulnerability.
It's a scam, it's a grift and it's marketing to sell unnecessary products. Building a new house or rebuilding/heavy renovation, sure you should put in new windows made to fit the new building, since certain techniques go best together - but in older houses?
No, nei, ei, ikke, nyet, nicht, rien!
Ours are from 1922, window, panes, spröjs and so on. Come May we take out the inner windows and store them, come late Oktober we put them in and paper the gaps shut (and put small cups with salt in, in-between the outer and inner ones). New insulation strips, new kitt, new paint - and it's good for a couple of decades more.
Can't get more climate friendly than stuff built to last.
But what about loss of heat? See, if you insulate a wooden house too much/the wrong way, it'll start to retain moisture too which leads to obvious problems (especially for people putting up extra layers of wall indoors, for that purpose). It needs to be able to breathe. That's why you have small crawlspaces on the upper floor and less insulated rooms upstairs.
Socks, slippers and a vest/sweater is a far better investment than new windows, money- and climate-wise.
But capitalism needs to move product. Ideally, it'll be like in the movie THX1138 where a worker picks up the latest "thing" on his way home and once home immediately puts it in the trash, so he can buy a new one the next day.
Plus the problem of the Pareto distribution: 80% of any given group are followers, not leaders. In our post-modern systems, there's also no more consequences for failure (failing upwards), hence, not unlike the broken stock and money 'markets™', we also lack a signal in terms of who people could place their trust in as a leader…
There's no chance anyone has even a shot at managing something as complex as the present. Take, say, the central bankers--effectively, these councils (soviets) are the central planners in the West--and they're doing a balmy job, don't they?
It's arguably worse for politicians who must claim they're in charge, which is also quite a stretch of the imagination, isn't it?
'AI™' might help with the data analysis (provided it's standardised--i.e., a caricature of reality), which will therefore offer but a caricature of 'options' for any 'leader' to decide upon. The greater the discrepancy between reality-as-is and the 'AI™'-ified caricature thereof, the higher the odds of 'stuff breaking' or 'things going wrong' for 'no reasons known to us'.
On the surface none of what they are doing makes sense, when judged from the People’s perspective, but they are guided by an entirely different perspective. Their agenda can be easily discerned by analyzing the real fruits of their labor. When we realize that their interests have utterly diverged from our interests, and that their agenda is anti-human in nature, then we begin to see what is happening and where they are leading us. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people are no longer capable of the most simple analysis. The ignorant set coupled with the technocratic servant set are the enablers without which the system could not function.
Oh, I keep thinking about some old cartoons with, e.g., monkeys throwing tools into a running machine for no other reason…
Ha,ha! Yes, we live in proximity to Amish communities and I cannot help but think they have exhibited greater wisdom from the rest of us. At least they are asking a fundamental question which we seem utterly incapable of asking - is this good for us, for the future of mankind? We have pretty much ceded the power behind this question to an utterly anti-human entity.
It reminds me of General Omar Bradley’s words:
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
Sadly, it's not merely our ethics that are in infancy--the acquired inability of most contemporaries (myself incl.) to deal with hardship of any sort is perhaps the bigger problem.
It is a direct result of our dependency on complex systems. This transition was automatic. Nobody asked us if we wanted it, like so many other aspects our lives. This is what I was alluding to with my Amish comment. They did not go for a ride like the rest of us. The other side of complexity coin is vulnerability.
It's a scam, it's a grift and it's marketing to sell unnecessary products. Building a new house or rebuilding/heavy renovation, sure you should put in new windows made to fit the new building, since certain techniques go best together - but in older houses?
No, nei, ei, ikke, nyet, nicht, rien!
Ours are from 1922, window, panes, spröjs and so on. Come May we take out the inner windows and store them, come late Oktober we put them in and paper the gaps shut (and put small cups with salt in, in-between the outer and inner ones). New insulation strips, new kitt, new paint - and it's good for a couple of decades more.
Can't get more climate friendly than stuff built to last.
But what about loss of heat? See, if you insulate a wooden house too much/the wrong way, it'll start to retain moisture too which leads to obvious problems (especially for people putting up extra layers of wall indoors, for that purpose). It needs to be able to breathe. That's why you have small crawlspaces on the upper floor and less insulated rooms upstairs.
Socks, slippers and a vest/sweater is a far better investment than new windows, money- and climate-wise.
But capitalism needs to move product. Ideally, it'll be like in the movie THX1138 where a worker picks up the latest "thing" on his way home and once home immediately puts it in the trash, so he can buy a new one the next day.
Your THX1138 analogy made my day, thanks a lot.
It's funny, because it's true!
Plus the problem of the Pareto distribution: 80% of any given group are followers, not leaders. In our post-modern systems, there's also no more consequences for failure (failing upwards), hence, not unlike the broken stock and money 'markets™', we also lack a signal in terms of who people could place their trust in as a leader…
There's no chance anyone has even a shot at managing something as complex as the present. Take, say, the central bankers--effectively, these councils (soviets) are the central planners in the West--and they're doing a balmy job, don't they?
It's arguably worse for politicians who must claim they're in charge, which is also quite a stretch of the imagination, isn't it?
'AI™' might help with the data analysis (provided it's standardised--i.e., a caricature of reality), which will therefore offer but a caricature of 'options' for any 'leader' to decide upon. The greater the discrepancy between reality-as-is and the 'AI™'-ified caricature thereof, the higher the odds of 'stuff breaking' or 'things going wrong' for 'no reasons known to us'.