Why the Gaiain belief sf just another branch of Leftism
November 25, 2009 12:31 pm American Politics, Canadian Politics, Culture, Ecology, Life, Political Correctness, Politics, ScienceWhy is the Gaiain religion Leftist?
Let’s start with Leftism. I posit that there is such a thing as Leftism, which is a permanent feature of the human species. It basically says a large No to reality. Reality is wrong and needs to be fixed. Here is a set of its characteristics:
- The world is wrong at some fudamental level.
- The world is rationally knowable.
- Our party has that knowledge.
- That knowledge is perfect.
- Armed with perfect knowledge, we can remake the world.
- Since our knowledge is true and perfect, those who oppose us must in principle be ignorant, or in bad faith.
- The only thng standing in the way of remaking the world into the place it ought to be is the ignorance and bad faith of those who do not know.
- We are entitled to seize power and remake the world in the name of this knowledge.
Compare this to the Gaian religion/ideology:
- man is poisoning the planet with carbn dioxide, and if nothing is done, we will destroy ourselves with the by-products of fossil fuel consumption.
- Our science is unassailable.
- We can re-engineer the world production systems through treaties requiring new production methods to reduce carbon footprints, as well as wealth transfers engendered by those transfers.
- Those who oppose us are ignorant or deniers.
- The only thi
- We are entitled to seize power and remake the world in the name of this knowledge: viz. the Copenhagen Treaty.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Dalwhinnie

