Green Ostriches

The interesting thing about this blog: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2012/05/aussies-abroad
is that it features comments by the Utopianists in our culture..i.e. readers of the AGE.
Their comments reflect an undisguised condescension and class consciousness...these are people living in a world they wish was returning to the previous master-peasant paradigm with themselves as the master.
That is what drives the Greens and likeminded 'progressives', they don't really want us back in the stone age,(though their power generation policies are doing that) rather just a few centuries back where the 'elite' are in total control and the 'peasants' their (un)willing 'slaves'.
The only problem with that scenario is that as soon as the barbarians who wait on the sidelines (see Frnace & Greece) have the upper hand, revolution happens and the 'elite' take a trip to the guillotine.
Just desserts I don't wonder, the problem is that many innocents suffer as well.