Global Warming is a Religion

You knew it was coming. Some “climate change experts” are claiming that the Tsunami was due to global warming global climate change global climate disruption. An angry Gaia has no choice but to take out her fury on Japan for the failure of the Kyoto treaty, apparently.

Global warming: is there *anything* it can’t do? Even plate tectonics are due to you and your car. Feel guilty, dammit!

The longer I look at American culture, the more I get the sense that so much of how it regards world events is almost entirely through the lens of narcissism. It’s a bit like the self-absorbed child with no sense of perspective. He assumes that everything that happens, happens because of him, whether good or bad. The team won because his positive thinking up in the grandstands willed them to victory. Mom and Dad divorced because of me. The notion that he is not the center of human history never occurs to him. And so we get this kind of revolting Generation Narcissus filth from Chris Matthews, who looks at the devastation of Japan and can only think, “This is a chance for my man crush Obama to get back at those Birthers”:

Attention American Members of Generation Narcissus: It’s not all about you.