Believe Anything

Sheeple can too easily go astray, and we will choose to believe just about anything when fearful enough. Not unlike previous generations, what begins as scientific ideas becomes sleekly consumerized and politicized, if not embedded in fear-laden religious practice.

Many USA religionists aren’t yet distinguishing guilt-laden stories, demanding being born again, from guilt-laden global warming stories, demanding you’re with use or against us. It’s entirely likely Western Europeans and Asians are just laughing until it hurts at the naïveté of the youngest nation in the neighborhood.

The debate about global warming or climate change is just heating up. Media—radio, television, film, print—control citizenries’ ‘believe anything’ convictions so that this author quietly seethes disappointment and annoyance felt by a growing number of scientists, who are doing the best they can to expose politico global-warming doublespeak.

What is doublespeak? Simply put, it’s euphemisms: unspecific, shorthand phrases meant to temporarily distract and conceal something very likely unethical; frequently, doublespeak buys more time for corporate brotherhoods to maximize their bottom lines. Some environmental doublespeak phrases heard in media are: fight, solve, stop climate change; update laws; clarify regulatory language; streamline regulations; improve the way we protect environments; eliminate red tape, all of which are difficult to argue. After digging deeper, however, we discover corporate environmental profiteering brotherhoods actually started the doublespeak in the first place!

Training one’s self to listen critically, and to educate one’s self to ask questions about doublespeak is still too much to ask. Many taxpayers and too many young people will believe anything popular, while equating education and critical thinking to a disdain for achievement, and pessimistic thinking.

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.
~ David Moorhead