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Global hysteria

By Ben-Peter Terpstra - posted Thursday, 10 May 2007


Naturally, fake global problems require socialistic “solutions” in an Orwellian climate. Therefore, the answer to saving the computer-generated bear from drowning requires the public to make enormous sacrifices. There could be a thousand reasons why the bear died.

Yet, when it comes to complex solutions to sensationalised problems, nothing works like a bit of snobbish hypocrisy. TIME Magazine, for instance, even tells readers to “Ditch the McMansion”. Remember Rule 6 folks. “Oversize houses aren’t just architecturally offensive; they also require more energy,” sniffs one writer.

Gore, on the other hand, is free to live in a 20-bedroom, 8-bathroom mansion. Sounds reasonable. We must live like hobbits.

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But do I own an “architecturally offensive” McMansion to ditch? No. Nor do I own a BMW, but apparently many elites do. Rule 22 is snobbier. “Skip the steak”. States TIME: “Which is responsible for more global warming: your BMW or your Big Mac? Believe it or not, it’s the burger.” Really? Believe it or not. This is propaganda.

Rule 41: “Fill’er up with passengers,” advises TIME. Yes, we hobbits have to carpool too. Still, wouldn’t it be healthier if Gore and Clinton were told to “jetpool”? Then again, why would they believe their own fairy tales?

Says Horner: “An Inconvient Truth conveniently omits that Greenland, one star of Al Gore’s melting ice-show, was as warm, or warmer, in the 1920s than it is today, and that it was heating up faster then.”

Yes, feeling is knowing, and to know is to feel righteous. Gore can fly in a private jet. We must carpool because Greenland is “melting”.

All in all, if you see metrosexuals like Kevin “I own an SUV” Rudd, and Al Gore’s team of hysterical disciples preaching, it may be that logic is showing you that we all need to question the “unquestionable” a little more. Or, you could adopt a few more laughably kooky rules:

Rule 43: “Move to London’s new green zone”.

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Rule 15: “Move to a high-rise”.

Again, Rule 26: “Plant a bamboo fence”. Thanks TIME.

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Ben-Peter Terpstra has provided commentary for The Daily Caller (Washington D.C.), NewsReal Blog (Los Angeles), Quadrant (Sydney), and Menzies House (Adelaide).

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