We continue our series of trying to understand the Expertocracy, our form of government, and its uses of propaganda to further the goals of our rulers. Lying is a common tool used by rulers to manipulate public opinion. Its use is constant, and its presence is not a function of government type, though its amount is.
I have two friends, both lawyers from excellent law schools and both 55+, who fall for every bit of propaganda without hesitation. They didn't used to be this way but the nonstop lies since Trump's election broke their brains, and pride and vanity prevent repair.
May 17, 2023·edited May 17, 2023Liked by William M Briggs
The shift to co2 as the villain baffled me when it happened. The old war on CFCs and so2 made some sense, I never really bought it but it was at least possible theoretically. I really thought of it as an excuse to get some fairly nasty pollutants out of the atmosphere, kind of an amoral altruistic vibe. A group I was part of actually did some neat work on how NaCl desorbs from a water surface back around 2000 with an eye to estimating the amount of chlorine radicals produced by wave action of the oceans to start to get a grip on how much of ozone destruction by Cl was natural but then the shift to blaming co2 made nonsense of it all.(my guess was always natural and cyclical as the dominant model which seems to have been mostly right, yay me)
But the shift to blaming co2 really woke me up a lot to how much science had become Science(pbuh).
I have two friends, both lawyers from excellent law schools and both 55+, who fall for every bit of propaganda without hesitation. They didn't used to be this way but the nonstop lies since Trump's election broke their brains, and pride and vanity prevent repair.
The shift to co2 as the villain baffled me when it happened. The old war on CFCs and so2 made some sense, I never really bought it but it was at least possible theoretically. I really thought of it as an excuse to get some fairly nasty pollutants out of the atmosphere, kind of an amoral altruistic vibe. A group I was part of actually did some neat work on how NaCl desorbs from a water surface back around 2000 with an eye to estimating the amount of chlorine radicals produced by wave action of the oceans to start to get a grip on how much of ozone destruction by Cl was natural but then the shift to blaming co2 made nonsense of it all.(my guess was always natural and cyclical as the dominant model which seems to have been mostly right, yay me)
But the shift to blaming co2 really woke me up a lot to how much science had become Science(pbuh).
Pretty quick we'll be back to candles and horses.
Ty for ending on so much-needed optimistic note 🙂
Top shelf as usual and welcome to Absurdistan