Woe to the reasonable!

To all those who believe that the world is a better place and that we are happily 'evolving' ever onwards and upwards; I invite them to remove their brains from their #*!es. This world is not improving! We are in the midst of a civilisational collapse and the sooner you wake up to that reality the better.
Melanie Phillips is one of the few journos who write about what is actually happening rather than what should be, or would like to be, or what could if only...the dreams of Utopianists who actually do not believe the evidence of their own eyes.
Colour them Green or perhaps more accurately, Red!

This attack followed hard on the heels of a story about a teenage burglar who, asked to write a letter of apology to his victims, wrote instead that he wasn’t bothered or sorry at all, and that the burglary was all their fault for leaving their window open.

Such incidents suggest that we are dealing with something beyond merely ruthless acquisitiveness and contempt for the law. They suggest a total absence of empathy for another person, which is the basic requirement of morality and, in turn, of a civilised society. They illustrate a brutalisation of humanity.

Evidence of this sickening tendency has been accumulating for years. While violent crime has always been with us, elements of sadism, cruelty or total indifference to anyone else’s distress are becoming frighteningly commonplace.

To some of us, it has long seemed obvious that this is intimately related to the breakdown of religious belief. It is the morality embedded in the Bible that expressly requires us to put the interests of others first.

C.S. Lewis wrote of the tendency within modern ideologues to: "geld the stallion then  bid him procreate", or words to that effect. Essentially that 'contemporary thinkers' (an oxymoron if ever) desired the very thing that they denied, i.e. evidence of a self-delusional hypocrisy, mass schizophrenia perhaps?

Paradox is the essence of being human: believing one thing should be done and doing something else, instead, or thinking in an honest way one moment and not, the next. Self-deception is an essential tool for self-advancement. It is most developed in the most intellectual.

Think of the high priests of the AGW movement and how they preach about rising oceans then buy mansions on the seashore, or Obama who gives speeches about cutting back on excessive petrol consumption then jumps into his convoy of SUV's and onto the next bully pulpit. It just doesn't make any sense unless you realise that these folk do not believe that ordinary restrictions apply to them...they are after all, the elite, the new mandarins, the rulers, the ones who deserve to be in charge, the aristocratic class, the Carers!

Klein cares. Gore cares. Hansen and Suzuki care. Or, at least, appear to do so: the perception of caring is actually more important than actual caring. The actual caring by deed can be carried out by underlings as long as the overlings have set the parameters for caring right. Which she and the others know how to do. Tough love is for harsh people; martyrdom for one’s cause is better, if unfortunate, when feelings, rather than reason, guide your life. Klein et al want to be remembered for what they stood for; little people want to be remembered for what they do, in comparison.