tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post6197114014127430644..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: How Phony Experts SucceedGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-11217673835679464962013-08-29T03:56:23.586-06:002013-08-29T03:56:23.586-06:00That is well put, and I found it amusing.
I also...That is well put, and I found it amusing. <br /><br />I also think there is a lot to be said for the idea that, despite the alleged importance of everyone "doing his part", rituals actually serve other purposes for such puritans. (1) They provide an easy way to see how much control they have over other people, and (2) they reinforce the message by repetition and perhaps even displace time from questioning thought. Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-88649995361811977622013-08-28T23:10:39.019-06:002013-08-28T23:10:39.019-06:00Coincidentally, I just today ran across an enterta...Coincidentally, I just today ran across an entertaining short blog post on <a href="http://theskinner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/ban-it.html" rel="nofollow">fracking and cigarette smoking</a> by an SF writer I enjoy, Neal Asher.<br /><br /><i>I submit that it is due to the puritan and punitive instincts of many ‘activists’ who are no better than proselytizing religious zealots. In a transition to a green renewable energy culture the hair shirts must be distributed, to be worn over bodies already self-flagellated by sustainable birch twigs. You must go without cars, beef steaks and must sit shivering in your house squinting at the latest Greenpeace pamphlet in the light of a low-energy bulb, if the power is on.</i>Snedcatnoreply@blogger.com