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December 4, 2007
Guardian Moonbat Demands Government Impose Economic Depression
Posted by Dave Blount at December 4, 2007 7:06 AM
The Guardian's Madeleine Bunting has identified the Number One threat to British civilization. Surprisingly, it is not obliteration by Muslim colonization, terrorism, economic decline, rampant moonbattery, or the horrific mess socialism has made of health care. Britain is menaced by consumerism, which according to liberal theology will be punished in a climate change apocalypse.
Fortunately Bunting has a solution to this dire crisis: have the government cripple the economy.
Relying on the glib psychoanalysis long favored by phony intellectuals, Bunting declares that our desire to avoid poverty is a result of psychological insecurity. Wealth doesn't make us happy, yet we won't throw it away and walk around barefoot with our ribs poking through our skin because we are neurotic. This prevents us from embracing the "huge lifestyle changes" that the intelligentsia deems necessary to help save the polar bears.
That's were the government comes in. Bunting compares the job of destroying the West's standard of living to winning WWII:
This useful analogy, explored by Andrew Simms in his book Ecological Debt, demonstrates the critical role of government. In the early 1940s, a dramatic drop in household consumption was achieved — not by relying on the good intentions of individuals […] but by the government orchestrating a massive propaganda exercise combined with a rationing system and a luxury tax.
Incredibly, liberal intellectuals openly call for the government to hamstring the economy and deliberately impose poverty. Though the pretext is the threadbare climate change hoax, the actual motive can only be the psychotic cultural self-hatred that drives the Left.
Arnold Toynbee had it right. Civilizations die of suicide, not murder.
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Madeleine Bunting: Calls for government-imposed economic depression to save us from consumerism. |
On a tip from V the K.
