Mass Media – Being Ignorant in the Face of the Obvious

Captain Obvious couldn’t spell it better than a Rockstar Employee in this article:

Our games are not designed for young people. If you’re a parent and buy one of our games for your child you’re a terrible parent. We design games for adults because we’re adults.

Yeah, after all, it is the fault of parents who seem to be to ignorant or uneducated to understand, that a game named “Grand Theft Auto” might not be for a six year old boy/girl. It is like you would give your child a movie as a present with the movie being Slasher – The Return. What do you actually expect this movie/game to be like? A child-friendly goody-goody movie?!

It says something about the state of the world and our infantilization that questions like this aren’t answered by the media or the parents, but instead laid to the feet of a supposedly strong state. I am really asking myself, where all the imbeciles come from. Is there some natural veil of ignorance that separates common sense people and sheeple?

Do as you preach – environmental style

I’m not easily swayed by the rather alarmist arguments that come around on global climate change (before: global warming). And while I can argue with scientists and their findings and they usually believe what they say. It is hard to believe the more louder (and often shriller) spokesmen in the media and policy arena.

John Stossel from ABCNews made the same point along the line of “do as you preach”. And he is right that it is at least a bit bizarre that someone like Gore or Friedman live a most eco-unfriendly life-style while they want to foce me to live like the 13th century “hut” dwellers.

They have mansions (not houses) that are more befitting of a 18th century english lord and they speak about conservative usage of natures finite ressources. But what astounds me every time is the fact that the masses are willing to believe them.

I don’t always want to claim that the life-style or the persons means and ways of living have any meaningful influence on their arguments. If they had, then nobody would take Dickens seriously and other people (like Ayn Rand f.e.) would be disregarded outright. However, often it helps to show that you live by your arguments, especially when those arguments are readily applicable in an easy way.

Of course, Gore could say that it is really expensive to do this for his mansion. Indeed, right he is, and he also identified one of the biggest counter-arguments! You can’t ever neglect costs, all in life has a cost, not all is monetary, others cost time. But everything has a price, not even death is without a cost. You could call it the homo-economicus, but it is really just a scientific extension of the decision making everyone faces every day. What do I want? What do I prefer to do with my time? Do I want to work 12 hours a day and get rich, or do I want to just live on a modest salary and enjoy my free time. Is free time with less money now more important than free time later with a lot of money.

But obviously this argument has neither crossed the minds of Gore, nor the minds of most climate scientists (though in all earnesty, it is not really their field of expertise).

So, it would be very nice to at least see a commitment by Gore and Co. towards their proclaimed ideals. Otherwise, I know they have a different price-preference than they proclaim to have.

For all you Socialist Global Warming Believers

what do you say to that?

Gore is planning to make his next appearance in Germany at the end of October, when he is scheduled to speak at a climate conference organized by the Baden-Württemburg based ultility company EnBW, which is paying the Oscar and Emmy award winner €180,000 ($255,000) for his appearance. A similar Gore climate change event was planned for Hamburg, but it's organizers cancelled without providing any reason.

Is Al Gore now bought by BIG BUSINESS and if not, why not?
If he is not bought, why is it that it is this time not bought and financed by Big Business, while it is always that way with people that disagree with you?!