Global destruction

James Delingpole artfully exposes the absurdity of Naomi Klein's rhetoric in this article:
 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100117165/only-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-can-save-us-now-says-naomi-klein/
However, the truly sad aspect of this story and others like it, is that there appears to be many disaffected people in the western democracies who actually believe that the ills of our world can be cured by a totalitarian government.

In Australia we bear daily witness to unions who scream at, rant over and abuse greedy 'capitalists' who dare to make a profit in their businesses. The same union bosses who incidentally are rather cavalier with  union funds, i.e. they spend it on necessities such as prostitutes, personal shopping trips overseas, and expensive lunches; nevertheless these same profligate union leaders hold the employers to ransom, extorting promises of 'job security', and exorbitant bonuses. How can there be job security when pressures like these are exerted on companies...maintaining jobs at all becomes a struggle in the face of more government taxation, energy taxes, mineral taxes, ever rising wages, global competitors etc.

The radicals in this country will only be satisfied when they have reduced the country to North Korean standards at which time they will turn on the capitalist bosses and blame them for having ruined the country. A win-win situation for radicals of all stripes.

What infuriates me is that there are so many fools of this stripe in Australia, so many who give active support to the oft repeated failures of Marxist/Utopian thinking. People who applaud lunatics like Naomi Klein calling for the jackboot approach. Imagine, more bureaucrats telling us what to do, how to do it and when we are allowed to do anything and then making us pay for the privilege.

Unfortunately the unexamined mind usually requires a cataclysmic event to wake it up to the real world, or as Bruce Cockburn so eloquently observed; "some only see the light through bullet holes".

Just yesterday I and my youngest son had reached Mark 13 in our daily reading and I shuddered at the dark power of this chapter. How soon are we to realising this frightening vision? And for those who laugh at such sandwich-board prophecy consider how easily you may have been convinced by Al Gores ridiculous claims of 'catastrophic global warming', or the Gaia hypothesis, or Rachel Carsons DDT scare, or the Y2 bug, or Paul Erlichs population explosion or any of the many other 'catastrophes'.

The real issue is not so much of which potential catastrophe is about to befall us, but which one do you believe?