Comments on: Global Warming’s Trillion-Dollar Turkey - Opinion http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2007/10/05/global-warming%e2%80%99s-trillion-dollar-turkey-opinion.html Documents that the world is becoming a demented delusional and dumb place Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:49:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ruben http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2007/10/05/global-warming%e2%80%99s-trillion-dollar-turkey-opinion.html/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Ruben Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:18:00 +0000 http://www.thepropheticyears.com/dddblog/2007/10/05/global-warming%e2%80%99s-trillion-dollar-turkey-opinion.html#comment-214 What can you do about it if democracies choose to blindly follow what the biggest mouths in science or popular media say, instead of relying on reason? Call me a fatalist if you want, but from my point of view as a EU citizen, I don't think much is going to change in this age of soft totalitarianism where politicians give the common man the idea they have to be specialists on some issue in order to have a valid opinion on it. Besides, if the majority decides to be stupid and naive by going with the flow (fashionable conformism), what can you do about it?<br/><br/>'<i>It is an ancient conflict. It has another name: "The individual against the collective."</i>' What can you do about it if democracies choose to blindly follow what the biggest mouths in science or popular media say, instead of relying on reason? Call me a fatalist if you want, but from my point of view as a EU citizen, I don’t think much is going to change in this age of soft totalitarianism where politicians give the common man the idea they have to be specialists on some issue in order to have a valid opinion on it. Besides, if the majority decides to be stupid and naive by going with the flow (fashionable conformism), what can you do about it?

‘It is an ancient conflict. It has another name: “The individual against the collective.”‘

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