Here’s a supercharged piece of rhetoric from the pen of George Monbiot….calling for revolution to save the planet.
What’s interesting is that if you replace ‘Neo-Liberal’ with ‘BBC Liberal Left Elite’ it makes a whole lot more sense….the Left’s ‘self hate’ of the West, the refusal to act against potent threats, the extreme political doctrine, the protection of elitist interests, the refusal to listen to the ‘People’, the determination to grab and hold onto power and influence, the suppression of democracy…..all symptoms of the Left as manifested in the BBC’s output…or as often as not in the omissions in what they broadcast.
Abridged to make sense of Monbiot’s words in the context of the BBC’s convictions…..
‘Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossible to address.…..the world is in the grip of an extreme political doctrine….there could scarcely be a worse set of circumstances for addressing a crisis of any kind. Until it has no choice, the self-hating state will not intervene, however acute the crisis or grave the consequences. Neoliberalism protects the interests of the elite against all-comers.
But the self-hating state cannot act. Captured by interests that democracy is supposed to restrain, it can only sit on the road, ears pricked and whiskers twitching, as the truck thunders towards it. Confrontation is forbidden, action is a mortal sin.
What neoliberal theorists call shrinking the state looks more like shrinking democracy: reducing the means by which citizens can restrain the power of the elite. What they call “the market” looks more like the interests of corporations and the ultra-rich. Neoliberalism appears to be little more than a justification for plutocracy…..
Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used, often retrospectively, to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained elite. But the problem cannot be addressed until the doctrine is challenged by effective political alternatives.
In other words, the struggle…….cannot be won without a wider political fight: a democratic mobilisation against plutocracy.
But this is scarcely a beginning. We must start to articulate a new politics, one that sees intervention as legitimate, that contains a higher purpose…. that puts the survival of people and the living world above the survival of a few favoured industries. In other words, a politics that belongs to us, not just the super-rich.’
‘We must start to articulate a new politics’……yes, we must. A new politics unadulterated by the malign influence of the BBC’s Leftist clique.
Moonbat refers on his Guardian link page to a government effort to reduce electricity usage. He thinks it’s a start, but that it doesn’t go far enough. But with electricity prices shooting up thanks to EU/LibDem carbon legislation, his dream will come true. Bad news for pensioners on electric central heating – but not on Newsnight or Panorama.
“What’s interesting is that if you replace ‘Neo-Liberal’ with ‘BBC Liberal Left Elite’ it makes a whole lot more sense”
I makes no sense at all. What is the point of this post?
‘I makes no sense at all. What is the point of this post?’
Can’t argue with that. (Karma… you minx:)
On matters George of the Jungle, has he resolved his small Newsnight//BIJ/McAlpine ‘engage keyboard before brain (which some will empathise with, one is sure)’ difficulty?
Yet it gets 2 likes already… now who would have imagined?
Guessing this is mincing to Albaman’s taste?
ps: Sorry to steal your line
I can only assume that GM is being deliberately obtuse: he is mixing neo-liberlaism (which has worked wonders) with crony capitalism and a corporatocracy which is more the bastardisation of capitalism and used by ‘the powers that be’ to get even more power and control.
We won’t be allowed to breathe, before long, without one of these:
Hilarious and yet…….scary. You get the impression these eco-zombies without a brain cell between them will be incorporating this as a ‘mitigating action’ in the next IPCC report.
I think you are missing the point here. CFACT are pointing out the ridiculousness of the delegates at the ‘climate change’ conferences agreeing to wear these stupid masks.
From the cfact.org home page:
Radical UN delegates agree to wear CO2 mask
At COP 18 in Doha, Qatar, CFACT asked the delegates to the UN Climate Change Conference if they would be willing to wear a carbon capture mask that filters out the carbon dioxide (CO2) they exhale. You’d be surprised how many agreed to this ridiculous proposal. If the UN delegates are open to this, just think what they’d like to impose on the rest of the world!
Not at all, my angle being it was hilarious to see them being sent up, but scary to think that they will probably think it a good idea for reducing CO2 emissions.
Well I’m with you there!
Frightening proto-fascism.
‘We must start to articulate a new politics, one that sees intervention as legitimate, that contains a higher purpose…. that puts the survival of people and the living world above the survival of a few favoured industries. In other words, a politics that belongs to us, not just the super-rich.’
In other words, Agenda 21. No more a surprise from The Moonbat than BBC executives holding secret meetings with eco-socialist activists on how to promote the AGW message.