Examining the problem, reaction, solution/thesis, counter thesis, solution, or the dialectic scam of the left.
There certainly seems to be more than one understanding of this phrase. Here is our shot at it. Of course, there are scholars of Hegel/Marx who read this site, and we welcome any corrections or other interpretations of this well known phrase.
Picking Global Warming as an example, we have a completely invented problem which of course can be manipulated in any way needed to end up at the point you want to land on. Primarily, the destruction of the West with its notions of free market economy and individual rights. Since the problem is fake, and created and enforced by “consensus” (See video below) all the reactions from people calling it out as fake must be dealt with using the dialectic attack of hate speech. This was fabricated by a second generation Frankfurt School acolyte, a certain Habermas, in the form of “Discourse Theory”.
For the past many decades, various leftist controlled governments and leftist think tanks, have attempted to use the element of Carbon as a means to control industry and humanity in a highly selective manner. Like slavery as an issue, we must only examine the ‘problem’ of CO2 production in Western and free market nations, more accurately perhaps, in cultures with the concept of individual rights as being sacrosanct. We must not look at slavery in Africa or Islam ever but must focus on the past actions in The USA pretty much exclusively in terms of passing moral judgment. And we must not look at really dirty industrial activity, let alone CO2 production in China or India but must pretend that CO2 produced by any and all means connected to humans in the West as an existential threat to the entire planet.
There should be no need to try and disprove the idea that CO2 is a problem on this site. I do have a dedicated page to the science of it here on Vlad but I don’t maintain it very well as to engage in a debate based on a lie is to lose that debate since only one side seeks to know the truth and the power of the lie is much greater in the short run. At least where the goal is destruction.
One fact though, is that where CO2 is produced, more life happens. Plants grow etc. Plants, and life, are made of carbon. Even on the side of highways, plants tend to thrive from a truly poisonous form of carbon, CO1 or Carbon monoxide. CO2 is actually pumped into greenhouses to help plants hit their optimal growth rate.
But let’s pretend that CO2 production was a problem. Then why are those who wrap themselves in a false flag of environmentalism, so opposed to nuclear power? Its the obvious solution to those who claim that carbon dioxide is an existential threat to the planet. Whatever the issues with nuclear power, it cannot be as bad as that.
And then there is this:
Geothermal
A very worthy deeper dive:
So we have a solution now for food production that is safe, energy efficient and absorbs far more carbon than it produces.
Global Warming is a consensus based thing though. Meaning communists agreed on creating it and presenting it as an existential problem in order to get to the solution they want, which is communism. No real world approach to solving even the non-problem of “global-warming” will be entertained and any attempt to expose it as the fraud it is will be met with charges akin to hate speech. “Climate-denier” for example, makes moral equivalence with a Holocaust denier to one who would deny the ‘existential threat of global warming’. A fairly palpable use of the Hate-Speech tactic.
More recently, in order to destroy farming in the Netherlands and replace these farms with what will almost certainly be beehive brutalist housing for illegal mostly Muslim and African migrants forced on the local population since before 2015, a new element and compound had to be demonized as an existential threat. Nitrogen, which makes up damn near 80% of the total atmosphere, and ammonia.
I won’t even bother to deal with the issue of nitrogen. To think that the tiny amount of nitrogen released on a few dutch farms justify the actions against farmers we see in the Netherlands is even worthy of rebuttal on that basis, means a lack of understanding of the tactic at play. Much like when one knows that nearly all human beings are born either a man or a woman (with the exception of extremely few genetic mutations which end with those individuals as they tend to be sterile) and to pretend these are fungible is, well risible.
So let’s look at the new threat of ammonia.
How could we somehow solve the issue of ammonia in a way that would satisfy those who claim its a problem while maybe at the same time, solving other problems many are concerned about:
The bottom line is:
The problems we are bombarded with, from Covid to vaccine hesitancy. From global warming to cow flatulence. From Nitrogen to ammonia, are all fake problems which, even by engaging about it, causes us to lose. These are not problems at all, and some, to the extent they might be, are selectively enforced against the Western nations and peoples with zero effort to deal with these non-problems in places like China, North Korea, India and other places where the raw production of these gasses and so on are orders of magnitude higher than in the West.
We need to understand that so much of what we engage with on a day to day basis is we, the intellectual descendants of Socrates, being constantly basted with pseudo-reality and false cosmologies in order to destroy Western civilization where it actually lives.
In our own minds.
Eeyore for VladTepesBlog.
You’ve bought into the “memo” that that is what some of the most fertile land in the world is going to be used for. Why would the elites with their minimized world population goals want to give up an easily controlled (and producing) area of land that can grow lots of food for themselves while leaving the rest to us?
Maybe because in order to significantly control and reduce the population they must better control and reduce the food supply, first.
Thanks for this fine explanation of the problem, reaction, solution mechanism. I don’t think it can be enough or in too many ways.
Fine essay, Eeyore.
Exactly: Fake problems = Look, squirrel !!
We’ve got to label the distractions for what they are and work back to the issues they’re meant to obscure.
Energy drained from serial, fabricated, clickbait catastrophes can be channeled into to planning counteroffensives. Real, practical strategies and tactics.
We need alternative media for accurate information unavailable elsewhere, but we’ve got to fight the defeatism it generates. Somebody’s paying to demoralize the target demographic. That Somebody is NOT on our side.
We need constructive, POSITIVE thinking and action plans. Realistic approaches, not hopium and copium. I see very little of that.
One masterful commentator is Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse. He connects the dots without getting hung up on a spike or fixed on an element from the periodic table. We need more such voices; they need greater reach.
Most of all, we need LEADERS. Our very own community organizers. Wistful pining for PTrump is not constructive. He’s the North Star, but we need a whole constellation. Including potential allies we’d prefer to excommunicate. Think of them as co-belligerents, if you prefer.