1. If the underlying premise is incorrect, what follows is an error cascade.
a. Error cascade is a term used by scientists confronting the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. Essentially, it means that bad science institutionalized by public policy, which then triggers more errors, more bad policy, and so on.
Nickson, "Eco-Fascists."
2. The error, central, to progressive/liberal thinking is that it is possible to create utiopia heaven .here and now.
3. The Soviet experiment was based on that view. Communist Revolution is based on the idea of transforming human nature. The New Soviet man or New Soviet person (Russian: новый советский человек, as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with certain qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's long-standing cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single Soviet people, Soviet nation.
New Soviet man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. To do so required altering human nature. Leon Trotsky wrote in his Literature and Revolution: "The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will." Ibid.
b. Rather than should this be done, how about can this be done?
c. Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.
Bork, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, p. 198
4. Well, then .who still, after millions of human sacrificed, still endorses this view?
a. Todays Progressives have the same plan: human nature is plastic; politics is a means of perfecting man! In 1969, Hillary Rodham gave the student commencement address at Wellesley in which she said that for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible .Were not interested in social reconstruction; its human reconstruction. http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html
5. Early on, the totalitarians branched into 'environmentalism.'
If one had to select a moment in time when progressivism lurched toward the darkside, one might select its embrace of eugenics, the racist pseudoscience that provided Adolf Hitler as a dance partner. They were able to pass legislation to correct bad breeding in states from New York to California; forced sterilization.
6. Creating the perfect human by identifying ideal characteristics and breeding for them embraced Lysenkos and Haeckels theories. The discovery of Hitlers oven killed the idea once and for all .Likewise, attempting to force the perfect balance on an ecosystem creates biological disasters on a scale only dreamed of even by the worst, first Rockefeller.
If the underlying premise is incorrect, what follows is an error cascade.
Nickson, Eco-Fascists, p. 99.
7. The Left, child-like in beliefs that motivate every totalitarian regime, has decided that human beings, seeming to resist said changes, are the enemy.
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.
Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit
a. Maurice Strong is an admitted socialist. His sister was a Marxist. He thinks you and yours have eaten too much, used too much and now must pay. Of course like every elite socialist, that just means you, not him, or his fellow elitist. Maurice Strong- Man Behind Agenda 21 ? Part 2 « Soldier For Liberty
It is a mistake, an error cascade to believe that there is any daylight separating communism, socialism, totalitarianism, or environmentalism.
a. Error cascade is a term used by scientists confronting the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. Essentially, it means that bad science institutionalized by public policy, which then triggers more errors, more bad policy, and so on.
Nickson, "Eco-Fascists."
2. The error, central, to progressive/liberal thinking is that it is possible to create utiopia heaven .here and now.
3. The Soviet experiment was based on that view. Communist Revolution is based on the idea of transforming human nature. The New Soviet man or New Soviet person (Russian: новый советский человек, as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with certain qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's long-standing cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single Soviet people, Soviet nation.
New Soviet man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. To do so required altering human nature. Leon Trotsky wrote in his Literature and Revolution: "The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will." Ibid.
b. Rather than should this be done, how about can this be done?
c. Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.
Bork, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, p. 198
4. Well, then .who still, after millions of human sacrificed, still endorses this view?
a. Todays Progressives have the same plan: human nature is plastic; politics is a means of perfecting man! In 1969, Hillary Rodham gave the student commencement address at Wellesley in which she said that for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible .Were not interested in social reconstruction; its human reconstruction. http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html
5. Early on, the totalitarians branched into 'environmentalism.'
If one had to select a moment in time when progressivism lurched toward the darkside, one might select its embrace of eugenics, the racist pseudoscience that provided Adolf Hitler as a dance partner. They were able to pass legislation to correct bad breeding in states from New York to California; forced sterilization.
6. Creating the perfect human by identifying ideal characteristics and breeding for them embraced Lysenkos and Haeckels theories. The discovery of Hitlers oven killed the idea once and for all .Likewise, attempting to force the perfect balance on an ecosystem creates biological disasters on a scale only dreamed of even by the worst, first Rockefeller.
If the underlying premise is incorrect, what follows is an error cascade.
Nickson, Eco-Fascists, p. 99.
7. The Left, child-like in beliefs that motivate every totalitarian regime, has decided that human beings, seeming to resist said changes, are the enemy.
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.
Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit
a. Maurice Strong is an admitted socialist. His sister was a Marxist. He thinks you and yours have eaten too much, used too much and now must pay. Of course like every elite socialist, that just means you, not him, or his fellow elitist. Maurice Strong- Man Behind Agenda 21 ? Part 2 « Soldier For Liberty
It is a mistake, an error cascade to believe that there is any daylight separating communism, socialism, totalitarianism, or environmentalism.