Is Global Warming an Experiment in Applied Cognitive Dissonance

There is an entire column in today’s Drudge Report of lead stories about the freakishly cold weather all over the US. The country and to an extent the entire globe is in the midst of a cataclysmic Fimbul Winter. And yet there is no public debate about that pillar of leftist catechism the Global Warming Myth (GWM).

Temperatures are decreasing, glaciers are expanding, people, crops and live stock are dying in massive numbers due to cold. And yet the media and academia continue to promote the GWM and the general public (including even seemingly otherwise intelligent people) willingly ignore their first person experience of reality and accept the consensus delusion. It is beyond the point of people feigning compliance with dogma, many if not most people actually believe it to be true. It reminds me of that part of Orwell’s 1984, where O’Brien is to coercing Smith to see the fifth finger, to not merely claim to see it but actually see it…”try harder. it is not easy to become sane”…

Not that I could fault anyone for faking acceptance, winning an argument with one of those GWM true believers is damn near impossible. Even when all empirical evidence and direct observation suggests that it is cold and getting colder the GWM pundits are masters of using an insane self referencing, self justifying, rhetoric that if you’re not crazy too, you can’t possibly follow.

But ultimately, what concerns me is not the substance of the lie but why the lie. I think it is an experiment in applied Groupthink, to see to what extent suggestion can negate perception and further, the keep the populace in a state of collective Cognitive Dissonance, which I believe (that they at least believe) causes secondary maladies, not the least of which is passivity. This would also explain many of the other myths of the left, like equality and Darwinism to name a few.



Now that I’m thinking about it, the substance of the lie is in itself rather revealing, the fear of warming, of warmth itself. There are so many bizarre implications here; the first obvious one being that warmth is associated with health, life and most things good, which I guess is contrary to the death cult of the Self-loathing Bourgeoisie. And then there is some sort of heliophobia in play here in a figurative manner, as King Helios is a constant threat to the materialistic modernists sacred Magna Mater, waiting to resubjugate her and dispose of her legions of eunuchs and reestablish the patriarchy. And there are some other allegorical connotations here that I think I’m gonna have to come back to some other time.