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Greta Wreaks Her Havoc

30/9/2019

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PictureGreta Thunberg addresses the UN, September 23, 2019
LONDON, ONTARIO – In the final analysis, eco-warrior Greta Thunberg’s greatest gift to mankind might turn out to be her uncanny powers of clarification. Those powers are most certainly not manifested in anything that the George Soros-scripted, 16 year-old puppet actually says. Indeed, all of her alarmist tirades of imminent ecological Armageddon have been heard before ad nauseam. They long predate what we can only hope will turn out to be her fleeting notoriety. They also predate her birth and are not growing one iota more convincing by dint of their endless and hysterically escalating reiteration.

Check out this new roundup of fifty years’ worth of disastrous planetary forecasting which the Competitive Enterprise Institute released this week – https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions – if you wish to see an historical survey of the sort of pseudo-scientific fear-mongering of which Greta is but the latest and feeblest proponent. I tell you, this bitter pigtailed prophetess stands on the shoulders of a whole succession of shameless mental midgets who’ve been stamping their little feet for more than fifty years and telling us that unless we disembowel our economies and reorganize our societies along the moonshiney lines which they prescribe, then we’re all going to hell forthwith.

No the near-miraculous ‘clarification’ I speak of is something that emerges in the responses which Greta arouses in others. I’m sure you’ve all seen clips of Greta’s long awaited speech to the United Nations Climate Action Summit last Monday. Not since Abba’s farewell tour has a Swedish entertainment export received such coverage in the world press. Her emotive rant – high on maudlin rhetoric and low on factual content – was full of such wise and well-considered counsel as this:

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you have come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words . . . People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”

That last line evoked a round of applause from the assembled delegates and hacks as well as an accompanying groan of approval such as a masochist might emit when the lash has been applied to an exposed and proffered buttock cheek just so. “And lo – a child shall spank them,” I couldn’t help thinking as I watched this unseemly spectacle of a petulant and over-indulged brat berating a room full of ostensible adults.

Greta Thunberg is like a human Rorschach test. People gaze upon the very same spectacle and construe totally opposite meanings and messages. Where I saw a spoiled child who should be sent to her room for an indeterminate sentence of time out, London City Councillor, Mo Salih, saw a beacon of hope and inspiration: “All in favour of Greta Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize, raise your hands,” he tweeted the day after she threw the tantrum that was viewed around the world.

And in the next day’s Tweet of the Day feature in The London Free Press, they had this: “‘What a well-spoken, articulate, passionate, caring young woman. The world needs more people like her.’ @LdnOnt.Blair gives props to teen climate-change activist Greta Thunberg, who spoke this week at the United Nations.”

In terms of the sentiment which is seemingly expressed, it’s fascinating how closely the above tweet jibes with the words of troll-master Donald Trump who meant the precise opposite in his beautifully tuned shot across Greta’s grotesque prow: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”

When Trump made a surprise flying visit to the U.N. summit on Greta’s big day, he stole the attention of every reporter in the room from the diminutive climate-dominatrix. And the look of shocked outrage on her face as he walked right past her without saying hello was priceless to see. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Trump is the only world leader in her entire months-long international tour who hasn’t felt the need to drop to his knees and kiss her ring.

A couple of days after that glorious snub, the ever-supine Justin Trudeau (identified on Saturday as our “Prime Minstrel” by the irrepressible Mark Steyn), thought he might be able to shake off some of the evil mojo still clouding his image in the wake of his ‘blackface’ scandals by presenting his bottom to Greta for a smack. She was happy (or as close to happy as she ever gets) to oblige him. Notwithstanding his single-handed dismantling of the Canadian petroleum sector since assuming the prime-minister-ship four years ago, she sternly informed him that he just wasn’t doing enough to bring the Canadian economy to a standstill.

It seems to be a demonstrable fact that Greta’s strongest appeal is to the female of the species. There was a picture in Saturday’s Free Press of a second Greta-inspired ‘Fridays for Future’ protest in downtown London and this picture was populated almost entirely by women and girls brandishing signs with such well-considered arguments for environmental stewardship as “Burn down the Patriarchy, not our Earth,”, “Protect, Restore, Fund our Environment,” “Earth is Crying: Act Now”.

There was a feeling of déjà vu all over again later that same day when my wife and I attended a worthy production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at the Stratford Festival in which an 18th century New England town’s people and way of life are destroyed when its religious, legal and civic leaders all submit to the hysterical delusions of a handful of demonically possessed girls. As John Proctor, the prime victim of their accusatory madness is caught in their snare, he asks, "Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem – vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!"

And it is sobering to consider that the haunted harpies set loose in Salem in the 1700s didn’t even have the vote yet.

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Greta takes counsel from one of her advisors
4 Comments
David Warren
30/9/2019 05:36:58 pm

As you demonstrate, little Greta & her celebrators help prove that "progress" is impossible, today, as it has always been. There will always be a constituency hoping for witchcraft trials, inquisitions, impeachments, draw-&-quarterings. There will always be a constituency hoping to stop them, too, but the former will sometimes get the upper hand. Whether in the Athens of Socrates, or the modern post-Christian West, democracy opens the back doors for the Devil.

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David Tucker
1/10/2019 12:46:14 pm

Thanks for the essay on Greta. I agree. I take it even further. I see her as exploited by the adults around her. It's shameful.
Your point about Salem resonates. It had not occurred to me. But for the past year to two years, i have expressed concern over adolescent girls and young women at the forefront of protests and general civil unrest. They are invariably the ones in the front, hysterically inciting the others. Sadly they are frequently the most violent as well. I say that as a father of two boys and a daughter who I worship.
Things are "out of whack" as my parents would say. How much further can our culture be bent?
I fully understand that the future is not mine or yours. But I hope they make wise choices.

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max
3/10/2019 08:55:39 am

An addendum to my previous reply, aimed primarily at David Warren. You should access copies of La Civilta Cattolica issues from 1922 until 1940. It's virulent anti-sematism, anti-protistantism and anti-democratic articles to further an all encompassing Catholic Fascist state will I think coincide with your views on present day democracy.

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Max Luchessi
3/10/2019 11:10:13 pm

Herman, surely you have been less than forthcoming about CEI. The organisation was founded in 1984 to promote Libertarianism, free market capitalism, but more importantly to counter the science proven environmental dangers that had convinced world leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It,s mission is to roll back the environmental safeguards and restrictions already in place, to repeal existing anti-trust legislation and the resulting fetters restricting unbridled capitalism. To appeal class action settlements adjudged in favour of the plaintiffs and to promote a popular Libertarianism to support this effort. This is not my opinion but their openly professed agenda.

Like the tobacco companies of the 50s and 60s which paid doctors and researchers to deny and obscure the truth about the causal link between tobacco and cancer for years. CEI has in alliance with people like the the Hunt Brothers, Koch's and conglomerates of the capitalist world assembled a paid chorus of pseudo science to noisily debunk the everyday reality of what is happening to our world. Worse still, enlisted paid rabble rousers to spread the myth of populist democracy. Enough to say that Fred Smith Jr CEI's founder,s latest whizz is to attempt to stop the Federal Reserve publishing the interest paid to foreign accounts. Why? To prevent the agencies of international law enforcement being able to trace the billions of dirty money so they can all be laundered safely through American banks and stock market to the benefit of American Industry. All very democratic.

You used the nonsense amassed by this rather horrendous organisation as your main plank to vilify and attack a young girl whose only crime is to believe passionately in a cause that effects us all. You love to attack the self awareness, honesty and motives of others. Have you checked lately on your own? Can it be that this 16 year old girl has, in the last year influenced thousands more than your writing and blog has and it can be plain old jealousy? Or is your attitude to democracy similar to your mate Warren. That it leads to all sorts of black holes which have to be fought against? Democracy is a mess, but it's the best mess we have.

Why are the kids responding to Greta in such numbers and having a go? Because it's their future we are destroying and they have had enough. I am almost 80 years of age, in 10 or 15 years time I could very well be gone, how will you and your fellow deniers defend yourselves against the accusations of your children and grandchildren? How will you explain that for years you denied the evidence of your own eyes, just to enable the ruling few to gather unimaginable wealth ?

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