Fine writing!... Archived Message
Posted by AlanG on August 28, 2019, 5:58 pm, in reply to "Catte at OffG, all her splendid guns blazing, shoots down the 'Amazon burning!!!' orchestrated panic"
...I just also happen to think the importance of the subject doesn’t make buying into media memes about it, or lying about the data, somehow ok. I don’t think it justifies hysteria, or uninformed rants from people who think indignation is a legitimate substitute for research data (“look how ANGRY I am, if this doesn’t fix things, nothing will!”)... ...I’m not sure when the notion gained currency that exaggeration, lies and distortion were somehow appropriate if the event being lied about/exaggerated was “urgent” or “serious” enough, but it’s an idea antithetical to reason and truth. The corollary also expressed, that demanding factual accuracy about such events is equivalent to denying their importance is equally, if not more disturbing. It’s a mindset that invites manipulation and uncritical acceptance of authoritarian-inspired panic memes... Weirdly, or not so weirdly, Catte's words recalled anti-semitism and the Nazi holocaust to my mind.
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- Catte at OffG, all her splendid guns blazing, shoots down the 'Amazon burning!!!' orchestrated panic - Rhisiart Gwilym August 28, 2019, 5:21 pm
- And as she and all her colleagues at Off-G assert, they're all dead against forest burning; they - Rhisiart Gwilym August 28, 2019, 5:37 pm
- Fine writing!... - AlanG August 28, 2019, 5:58 pm
- We are being played ... - Tomski August 28, 2019, 6:12 pm
- Re: Catte at OffG, all her splendid guns blazing, shoots down the 'Amazon burning!!!' orchestrated panic - John Monro August 28, 2019, 9:26 pm
- Thanks, good article. Nm - Shyaku August 29, 2019, 2:44 pm
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