{"id":5665,"date":"2010-10-04T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:47:40","slug":"the-moral-blindness-of-the-1010-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/the-moral-blindness-of-the-1010-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The moral blindness of the 10:10 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric S. Raymond<\/a> watched the eye-opening propaganda piece from the 10:10 campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I believe it was the historian Robert Conquest who said that every organization eventually behaves as though it is run by a secret cabal of its enemies. I have seldom seen any more convincing evidence of this than the \u201cNo Pressure\u201d video released by the anti-global-warming activist campaign 10:10.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The reaction from AGW skeptics was no surprise; many fulminated that the mask had slipped, and this video is the agenda of environmental fascism writ large. Thoughtcrime brings death! Conform! Obey! Or die . . . and the survivors get pieces of their friends spattered all over them as a warning. I think we open a more interesting inquiry by taking the 10:10 campaign at their word. They<\/em> thought they were being funny.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a mind-boggling disconnect from the feelings of ordinary human beings implied here, a kind of moral and emotional incompetence. It\u2019s as though the 10:10 campaigners were so anesthetized by the secretions of their own zealotry that they became incapable of understanding how anyone not living deep inside their reality-tunnel would react.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

To update Lewis, your garden-variety power-mad monster might commit the atrocities in this video, but only because they are not<\/em> funny — because they spread fear or demonstrate power and ruthlessness. The kind of idealism that aims to be \u201ctormenting us for our own good\u201d may be what is required before you think blowing up schoolchildren with the push of a button is funny<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As many have commented, how could this video possibly have been professionally written, directed, acted, filmed, and edited with nobody actually noticing how awful it was? Were they all so morally sure of the righteousness of their cause that the didn’t recognize (or care) how most people would react to their casual — even cheerful — butchery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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