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Daverick, with all due respect, I think it’s you who’s is clearly lacking discernment, there is a nativity and poor reasoning to your critique of Cory Morningstar, it’s not a strong enough argument to assert she is criticising so many, therefore is ‘overly-critical’ and arrogant, your assertion ‘we’ve got to do the best we can’, has echoes of that rather naive alternate-middle class position, ‘we’ve all got to do our bit’, though what does that truly amount to?…I don’t hear you really grasping the problems we face, and Morningstar so succinctly illustrates, i.e your focusing on the climate change narrative, (emphasis on ‘narrative’) rather than the more prescient issue posed by the WEF, W.H.O agenda, The Great Reset, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its Social credit System & dystopian ‘Stake Holder Capitalism’. Tritely dismissed as conspiratorial by those lacking discernment, but a very real prospect, clearly mapped out in broad daylight, and being test run in China as we speak, notably praised by many WEF members.

Wether Thunberg is manufactured isn’t really a debate, and doesn’t take much deciphering, your outrage is telling, and she is positioned to manufacture consent, a faux-figure alluding to capture and channel the supposed zeitgeist,…but is clearly manufactured, and I doubt has much of her own agency.

XR is state run, controlled opposition, and essentially amounts to an egregious abuse of trust, in regards to our youth, who are painfully misplacing their passion and energy into its mechanism. Extinction Rebellion ties to some of the world’s most powerful NGOs at the helm of the non-profit industrial complex (Avaaz, 350.org, Greenpeace et al.). Predominantly a white-led movement serving white power.

‘Following the science’, an absurd statement uttered by inept Tory politicians, science doesn’t lead anywhere, it’s always open to empirical test and inquiry, unless you’re alluding to ‘scienctism’, a quasi-religious form of authority. This is what the conservative government upheld during their appalling covid period. In terms of Climate Change Paul Kingsnorth astutely points out;

Climate change is a problem amenable to numerical questions and technocratic answers which go with the grain of a Machine culture. It is, furthermore, a problem which, almost by definition, can only be solved by elites’.

What you appear to miss in your partial praise/approval of The Great Reset, is the policy of rendering us humans as ‘standing reserve’, only viewed for our future potential profit, i think you’re aware, though have bought into the Fraud of the greenwash, and terms such as ‘sustainable development’, ‘New Deal for Nature’, that mask a thin veneer over a far darker motive, and before you say it I’ll quote John Waters, “do not allow the phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ even to flit across your mind: It has grown too late in the day for the luxury of superciliousness. I hardly need to list here all the ‘conspiracy theories’ that have been realised in full technicolour actuality over the past year”

The rationalism of the WEF is our biggest threat, that you can’t decipher the pseudo-science surrounding covid Is telling, it’s always a major part of Totalitarianism, ‘conspiracy’ means ‘a confluence of interest’, which covid certainly is, look at the transfer of wealth, the contracts for politicians mates for utterly needless toxic PPE gear, and the rollout of vaccines, or to be accurate ‘gene therapies’, as described by the pharmaceutical CO’s themselves.

Your unquestioning support of ‘The Green New Deal’, shows again a lack of investigation, to no doubt rile you I’ll quote Morningstar herself;

“The ‘the clean energy Revolution’ doesn’t threaten big oil it secures it. It doesn’t weaken capitalism. It strengthens it. It doesn’t inspire resistance- it crushes it, into oblivion”

It masquerades a policy of the financialisation of nature, to commodify our bodies, reducing humans to standing reserve. Is this something you’ve even entertained, all part of the ‘machines’, progress, the transhumanist agenda, The Great Resets mantra ‘you will own nothing and be happy’, is this just a superfluous tagline, I fear not, it translates as ‘we will own everything, inc your bodies, and be happy’, yes it’s a little dark, isn’t it, a little dystopian…but it is at hand!

While you focus on climate change and faux-urgency of carbon emissions, the true threat of global fascism, stealthily ushers in under the guise of public health emergency’s, pathologising their political nature, rendering them apolitical, and beyond reproach,

…one of the aspects which concerns me the most about the past two years, esp referring to Totnes, is how many well meaning alternate types, have almost completely failed to grasp what’s been happening globally, yourself and a number of others are quite influential within this area, this community I’m part of, I note you were part of blocking an important talk at the civic hall, which included such luminaries as Dolores Cahill and Patrick Henningsen, this was essentially ‘cancel culture’, which I deeply resent, who are you to deem what voices should be heard? Dolores Cahill has been outstanding and brave in her coverage of covid, an inspiration for those seeking the truth of whats taken place in our communities at large.

I’m afraid I don’t detect an enlightened voice in what you write, quite the contrary, the speakers were tritely discredited as ‘right wing’, conspiracy theorist, lest we forget the term ‘right wing’ has been so overused to discredit anything which that doesn’t follow the MSM that it’s lost its true meaning, ‘Rebel Wisdom’ was classed as ‘right wing’, prompting its founder to make a podcast titled ‘WTF if everything is right wing, nothing is’, there is an overemphasis on the dangers of the right wing, what about the extreme left, in case you hadn’t noticed there’s been an near inversion of the political left and right in the U.S, the Democrats really don’t stand for what they originally were, as Kaczynski said “The political left is technological society’s first line of defence against revolution;

What is needed is a new revolutionary movement, dedicated to the elimination of technological society.”

The only true source of information now is from independent news or self funded journalism.

As D.H Lawerence & Huxley termed it, ‘The Machine’, be that progress, AI, the march of technology, is unstoppable in many respects, what can we do to mitigate its effects, the idea it offers solutions for everything, in terms of science, is part of the problem, the rationalism, the utilitarianism of ‘machine environmentalism, ‘The New Green Deal’ isn’t as you say a step forward, Cory’s trashing of many green organisations is a wake up call, a radical call for a new vision, not the illusion of of one, we need to transcend rationalism. We need to change our narrative;

to defer to Kingsnorth again;

“This is the meaning of the ‘culture war’: an ongoing battle over stories, with no sign at all of whether any new grand narrative will rise to replace that of Progress.”

We all see the world through narratives, stories, there’s been much Polarisation, and divisiveness in our communities, it’s not a time to couch our language, I commented as i don’t see your efforts to cancel certain voices, as an aid to collective sensemaking, or positive to our information ecology, as harsh as that may sound, in my eyes Cory is a crucial source of journalism in a time when journalism has sold out wholesale, and severely suffered a lack of truthful voices, she will be very much on the right side of history….

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Amalia's avatar

This is not a criticism of you Daverick but of Cory Morningstar

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Amalia's avatar

I tend to stop reading immediately. There are enough people and organizations that are doing great work and are in the right direction that it's important not to get distracted. I am interested in project drawdown, regenerative agriculture, pachamama.org partnersinhealth.org. Paul Farmer is my Hero and I was greatly saddened by his passing. Show us what you are doing for the world instead of criticizing everybody. We are all doing the best we can, even Putin. Make your goals clear and true and work towards them, whoever your bedfellows are.

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Nick Taylor's avatar

even Putin?! I guess that 'doing the best we can' doesn't always mean doing anything good. He's doing the best he can at invading Ukraine.

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Amalia's avatar

Yeah, not everybody is capable of good.

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