In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment- environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a ``serious problem.'' Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.Read it here.
He's right. There is a concerted effort to scare the pants off people so as to justify radical and fundamental transformation of the American economy and political system. Where Will is wrong is in saying that the effort is without precedent. The Left has been honing its techniques on this sort of thing for a generation. The litany of scares is impressive -- nuclear armageddon, nuclear power in general, alar, cholesterol, genetic modification, smoking and second hand smoke, global cooling, global warming, climate change of any kind. Long ago, advocates of "fundamental" change [read Marxists] learned to generate a sense of "crisis" to justify their infringements on liberty. Today's campaign differs only in its scale and scope from other, similar, campaigns we have seen time and again. So much has this scare-mongering become the modus operandi of the Left that, when confronted by a real and present danger like Islamist terrorism, they are incapable of seeing it as real and imagine that it is just another bogus campaign.
This addiction to duplicity, ruthlessness, and self-delusion is dangerous. The current environmentalist campaign simply illustrates for all to see, just how pervasive it is within the elite institutions that we count on to organize our society.
