Tough times

When I read the following essay: http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2012/6/it-s-really-about-freedom  I was struck by the use of the phrase PNS (Post-Normal-Science). The ideology behind the phrase is one hundred percent Post-modern; that cursed grandchild of the Modern movement, child of the 60's revolution and the filthy baggage of Charon's reverse journey across the Styx.

 The political realm has been exposed to the Furies* and Hades has been unleashed on this earth. We are at war...it is a war of ideas and if we are not careful it will eventuate in a real, killing war between people. Already the polarisation of ideas has closed minds to the 'other perpsective' and that is why the 'watermelons' are committed to achieving power irrespective of how manipulative they have to be. And we only have to look at the tiny minority behind the Russian revolution but who possessed an incredible commitment to power at any cost, to realise that Australia is teetering on the brink of something very hot and smelly.

Obviously the vast majority of those sympathetic to the Green movement are not Marxist-Leninists like Rhiannon, and yet the same motivating spirit is at work: a desire for human society to be regulated, monitored and instructed by a Gnostic elite endowed with the incontestable truth. There is, as Delingpole says, “nothing cuddly, fluffy or bunny hugging about the Green religion”. The guiding principle is not quirky Lennonism but steely-eyed Leninism. To grasp this is to understand the inner-dynamics of Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Environmental activists, along with their “useful idiot” allies, are at war with “free markets and free trade and personal liberty”. In this respect they are no different from their collectivist antecedents, communism and fascism alike. There can be “no middle way” in our response to their totalitarian challenge: 

Even if you think there is a middle way, the people who would wish to steal your freedoms and your democratic rights in the name of “environmentalism” have seen to it that there is not. It really is that simple: optimism or pessimism; freedom or tyranny; joy or misery. You choose.

*The Furies, who are usually characterized as three sisters (Alecto, Tisiphone and Magaera) are the children of Gaia and Uranus. They resulted from a drop of Uranus' blood falling onto the earth. They were placed in the Underworld by Virgil and it is there that they reside. However, Greek poets saw them as pursuing sinners [see anyone opposed to deep Green ideology] on Earth. The Furies are cruel.