Ecological "Awareness" Result of Dumbing Down — Interview with Geologist Ian Plimer

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German summary / deutsche Zusammenfassung (English original transcription and video below German text):


Ian Plimer diagnostiziert – ebenso wie ich hier, hier, hier und hier – eine gezielte Verblödung („dumbing down“) der Bevölkerung. Diese radikale Herabsetzung der Standards für Wissenschaft, Rationalität und diskursive Offenheit entwaffnet die Bevölkerung gegenüber Politikern, die sich einen permanenten Alarmzustand („das Goering-Prinzip“) wünschen, der die Menschen verängstigt und entsprechend gefügig macht.

Im Zuge dieser Verblödungskampagne zwecks Gefügigmachung der Menschen entstehen gewaltige Bürokratien und Industrien, die vom Erderwärmungs-Mythos leben und Millionen von Menschen von ihm materiell und geistig abhängig machen. Erst, wenn diese Generation ausstirbt, sieht Plimer eine Chance dafür, dass die Öko-Religion schließlich das Zeitliche segnet.

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Benny: Last question. Do you see any realistic chance that there is a reassessment any time soon among politicians about the green agenda, about the climate agenda, about the policy agenda in Australia, or anywhere in the world, and what are the chances that commonsense will prevail?

Ian: I would like to say yes. I’d like to live long enough to see this change. I’m not so sure I will, because throughout the western world, we’ve had a dumbing down of the education system. 

We’ve had a massive attack on western civilization, and the processes of logic, the processes of rationality, the use of history, the use of argument … 

Now you cannot mount an argument. You just get shouted down. So we’ve, I think, had a dumbing down of the education system, and we are reaping the rewards.

The second reason is that we have an army of people in the bureaucracy, in the universities, in the schools, in the research institutes, in financial institutions, who are making their life and their money out of this myth, and those people, I think, have to go through the system and die before we’ll get a significant change.

I think in 200 years time, people will look back and compare this to the South Sea bubble or the Dutch tulip mania, because that’s what it is.

The answer can be viewed between time marks 14:32 - 15:56

The entire interview is worth watching.