I hear it more and more these days: “As weather threats intensify”, “as the weather gets more extreme”, “as climate change causes more disruption", etc.
I don’t see intensifying threats, more extreme weather, or more disruption. Do you?
Which of us is most likely to be hallucinating, the one who sees something that isn’t there or the one who doesn’t see what someone else claims is there?
Those who say these things in this way are "thinking past the sale"; making assumptions that they hope you won't notice.
It's a trick, regardless of whether AGCC is real or imaginary-- I'm agnostic about that-- a dishonest tactic. Just keep in mind what they are doing every time you hear them use one of those phrases. It's not because they are trying to give you correct information. It's because they are trying to manipulate you.
They want you to give up liberty, or they mean to take it from you by force.
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We are participants in a grand "Solomon Asch Conformity Experiment" ... social pressure applied to suppress individual perception:
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Best Regards,
Hans ... in the NC woods
I've read of that experiment before. Watching people around me, it's not surprising that people conform to obviously absurd public opinion. It happens in everything that gets politicized, such as "Men can get pregnant". If you don't conform, you get scorched by the conforming majority. Because, as I often point out, politics makes people stupid- and often, a little evil.
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