The Little People Must Be Made Pious
Is this scene here, I wonder, what’s meant by “class war”?
As noted before, more than once, if someone’s go-to solution, every time, is to impose on others, to harass and bully random people, effectively trapping them, while feeling enormously self-satisfied about their own imagined radicalism – and while clearly titillated by the ability to dominate – then this tells us very little about any purported issue. It’s a moral non sequitur and rather like saying, “I’m troubled by the plight of the Javan rhinoceros, so I’m going to start spitting at the elderly and keying random cars, and then boast about it.” It does, however, tell us what vain and spiteful tossers these creatures are. And how low a priority their wellbeing should be.
Also, open thread. You know the drill.
It seems like a death wish to me, a desire to return to the primitive as if that were possible.
Many of the eco fanatics of the sixties and seventies openly longed for a return to a pre-industrial civilization. Some of them admitted that this meant universal poverty and a greatly shortened lifespan. Others clung to the delusion that it would be possible to keep modern medicines, sanitation, and so on.
Come to think of it, there’s nothing wrong with helping those fanatics to live zero-carbon lives: Round them up and march them into the countryside to spend their lives doing agricultural labor. Put them in tiny huts, heated by wood fires in winter, and feed/clothe them the way the poorest peasants were so long ago. It’s what they want, right?
Round them up and march them into the countryside to spend their lives doing agricultural labor.
I suggested this here years ago. Either a wilderness preserve or preferably an island. People objected. Some did math and said there amount of land that I proposed was clearly insufficient to support such for even a relatively small population. Personally I didn’t see that as my problem. It was about that time that the helicopter theme presented itself. Admittedly for different reasons. Though I still think we could combine the two solutions and be able to work something out. Think of the TV revenues. Might even squeak out a profit if properly marketed.
People objected.
Call it “reeducation” and no liberal could object.
How much insulation is that?
Wall insulation, treble-glazed windows, complete air-tightness with heat-exchange ventilation, ground-source heating, solar panels . . .
Most, or all, of the above.
All of this, of course, being introduced to Building Regs for new houses at a time when affordable new housing is beyond the reach of young people on or about average income.
Wall insulation, treble-glazed windows, complete air-tightness with heat-exchange ventilation, ground-source heating, solar panels . . .
Interesting. I was not clear on Insulate Britain’s demands, whether they were complaining about un-insulated homes or were demanding some bizarrely impossible degree of insulation. Didn’t care much; it was enough to recognize that they were assholes.
All of this, of course…at a time when affordable new housing is beyond the reach of young people on or about average income.
They want us to live in pods. And eat bugs.
Better to force them to live in pods (or huts) and eat bugs.