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Old 11-28-2009, 01:26 PM
 
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Lets begin with several defining characteristics of a person on the right (pertinent to the case )

1. intolerance of ambiguity
2. Uncertainty avoidance
3. acceptance of inequality and hierarchy of wealth
4. Need for a "father" figure to worship; abstractions (nation, army, flag, free market, sports team) are OK too
5. Individualistic locust mentality


To assume that Cyclopean human impact on Earth has no effect on anything (climate and environment) is beyond common sense realm, it's well into the field of irrational (that's why "Freudian") . I know, I know all the staple talk radio styled arguments given by the right leaning folks on the issue. My post is not about flaws in those arguments, I want to speculate on the deep subconscious responsible for the working class right chanting slogans concocted by their multimillionaire cheerleaders.

Here are my thoughts: human race has all defining characteristics of a locust swarm.

There are only two differences:

1) while locusts have approximately the same access to food resources, human locust developed complicated social pyramid where some locusts are much more equal than the others and enjoy much greater access to resources. This super locust shapes social pyramid and define direction of economic “development”. Super locust embedded an absurd idea in plebeian locust minds, namely, for a plebeian locust to have more crumbles on his table he must allow Super locust to accumulate more, more, more and more. Needless to say that for a plebeian locust to have X amount of stuff, a super locust must have 1000000*X, for a plebeian to have 1.5*X, a super locust must have 2000000*X and so on. Thus, given human social pyramid, Earth must have infinite resources for plebeians to enjoy their McMansions, McFoods and horse doses of Prozac. That's the main reason why some (if not most) plebeians are going berserk hearing the words “global warming”. Since they've accepted divinity of the social pyramid and master's rights, raping the Earth is the only way for them to get their McStuff. The phrase “global warming” remind their subconsciousness that McStuff might be taken away by pure natural forces and they are too gutless to decrease master's share to say 1000*X.

2) Human locust convinced itself that it posses “brain” and scientific proves which will enable it to overcome resource limitations and keep social pyramid intact forever and ever.
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Old 11-28-2009, 01:57 PM
 
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