When im talking about climate science with regard to it being a pseudo relgion.
you need a set of initial presumptions.
theres a narrative at the base of any belief system and climate pseudo religion is based on the charactization of nature as a hapless, defenseless
fragile virgin.
The industrial activity of man kind is a rapatious power mad, demolisher of natural virginity and beauty.
The human being (the individual) is characterized as nothing more than a devouring mouth, who’s activity runs contrary to the untrameled beauty of
the planet and it supports the activity of the tyranciall patriarchy.
the reason that narrative has force, is because it draws on underlying religious archetypes.
so to charactierize the world properly you have to characterize the positive aspects of nature.
since you have to live in a reciprocal way with nature. can’t just consume everything and devour everything in your local landscape, then you die..
so you have to have some sense of the value of nature.
also have to have some sense of the fact that if you were dropped in the jungle of the amazon naked, you’d be dead in about 48 hours. so you also
need a figure to characterize the negative element of nature and that’s completely absent from the environmental myth. that’s part of what makes
it pathological.
with regard to the rapatious tyranny, well
any industiral system or human organization can exploit the natural world that to the point it’s not sustainble, and it can become oppressive and
tyrannical.. (that’s the ancient evil King - part of religous mythology as far back as we can chase it).
so you need a represenetaion of the negative aspect of society..
like how kids go to school and kids are turned into cookie cutter kids, crushes their innate differnces and beauty and it’s all the pain of having
to be socialized, you have to understand theres an opporeseive element of culture. but then you should also wake up and realize you’v got the wise
king too.. whihc means you have roof over your head, your not starving to death like people in 1860, people arent riotoing outside, there’s workmen
knee deep in sludge to keep the everything going, so a little gratitiude for the positive end of the patriarchy is in order too, but that’s
completely absent in the evnirnonmental view.
and then with regard to the individual, of course you can be a selfish hedonistic consumer. and you can facilitate the rapatioius tyranny, as a
consequence of that, rape the planet. But on the same token were not a cancer on the face of the earth or a virus that’s mutating and taking out
the planet.
you have to give credit where its due. theres an element of everyeone that noble, generous, kind and productive and capable of living in a well
ordered state..in something like sustainable and productive harmony with nature. you only get half that story.
now if you have no comprehensive underlying cultural narrative,(which is increasingly the case in our society) and someone offers you when you're a
teenager, half the religous story, you will snap that up in a second, because it helps you order your relationship with the world and gives you a
pathway through the world.
the messianic stage when you’re an adolesecent - when you’re making the transition from the group identity that you're chasing as a teenager, to
becoming an indivdual, you're gonna be looking for a pathway that’s essentially heroic. what that pathway should be is that you identify with your
culture deeply and capable of transcending it. so then you become a culture creator as well as a disciplined member of culture.
but young people need to be offered something like a vision of destiny
in order to catalize their identity and we’re very very bad at that, except on the ideaological front.
so the woke types come along and say the planets a virgin, the great fathers a tyrant, you can be a hero if you just stood up to that. then kids
think, Well id like to do something important with my life and so their caught into that immediately.
but because it’s a one sided story.. a one sided religious story is an ideaology.
edit on 30-1-2023 by knightsofcydonia because: spelling title