Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion”. The three-day Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London featured speeches from UK Cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch, and culminated with a high-profile event […]
It’s all the same tribalist grift. See Dan Olsen’s “Building A Flat Earth” and Innuendo Studios’s’s’ “Endnote: the Origins of Conservatism.” We’re dealing with people who figure someone’s got to be king, and don’t mean things when they say words. They only understand the world in terms of interpersonal trust. Like there’s some innate total hierarchy, for everything, where being higher up means you get the power to decide what’s real.
And they think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
well said!