Psycho-Manipulation on Climate, Psychedelic!

Graphic via Beldar

My latest piece for Pajamas Media, entitled, Psychologists Want to Purge Your Brain of Un-Green Thoughts, is up and running; it looks at how the anti-establishment renegades of 1968 now want you, forty years on, to fall in line and conform to the “environmental crisis” mentality they’ve been so aggressively pushing:

Forty years after enlightened baby boomers and academics decried conformity and told the world to ignore “the establishment,” to not kowtow to “the man,” to “rap about problems to find solutions,” and to “not guilt-trip or judge other people’s life choices,” those same sorts — the now firmly ensconced “establishment” pretending otherwise — are wondering why they can’t get people to fall in line and do as they’re told to do and think as they’re told to think with respect to the environment and the “crisis” of “climate change,” the “crisis” which used to be called “global warming” until the news got out that the earth has been cooling for the last ten years and the arctic ice is refusing to melt.

Now, these establishment Boomers want you to kowtow to “the man.” They’ll brook no open discussions and they prefer you would learn to judge others — and to scold them — for their own good and for the planet’s.

To encourage you in those noble endeavors, the new establishment is bringing in the psychologists…“We know how to change behavior and attitudes. That is what we do,” says Yale University psychologist Alan Kazdin, association president. “We know what messages will work and what will not.”

It’s link-loaded and wait til you read the remarks of some of these psychologists and what they want you to do. It will, like, blow your mind, man!

The piece was written before the presidential conventions and the anti-Palin temper-tantrum of the past ten days, or I would have alluded to some of the relevant hypocrisy toward lockstepping, therein, as well. Read the whole thing.

Jules Crittenden: is writing about global cooling today. Really. Expect a colder winter. I wonder if congress and Mrs Pelosi and Mr. Reid will insist, still, that drilling here at home will not help us out with heating oil bills this year, and the next, and the next, until the better energies are in place?

Glenn Reynolds: links to some interesting info on hydropower.
Also read: Sisu