We don’t allow drunks to fly planes.
Because we understand that alcoholism is common, partly genetic, and very dangerous at 30,000 feet.
We therefore screen pilots to keep ourselves safe.
And alcoholics support this policy because they also want to fly safely.
Why do we allow our leaders to deny reality?
Reality denial is common, mostly genetic, and very dangerous.
Many key government policies are rooted in reality denial, and will cause much more harm than a plane crash.
Why don’t citizens demand we screen leaders for reality denial?
Because most citizens can’t see reality denial, and are not aware of Varki’s MORT theory.
And faster than you can say WASF, we’re back to denial of denial being the key impediment to making the future less bad.
un-Denial 
https://desdemonadespair.net/2020/12/the-mass-of-human-made-materials-now-equals-the-planets-biomass-anthropogenic-mass-is-doubling-every-twenty-years.html
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John Gray 10 December 2020
The year of the Great Humbling
Covid-19 has pricked the bubble of human supremacy and revealed our fragility. And the economic destruction means we cannot return to the free-market capitalism that made the pandemic inevitable.
“Many would like to believe that, in the months ahead, we shall be returning to a time of accelerating progress in society, or at least of relative safety.
Underlying these responses is a belief that humankind has reasserted control. With the pandemic soon to be contained, we can look forward to resuming the expansion of human power that seemed to be under way before it struck. In fact, the lesson of this year is that we must learn to live in a world we cannot fully know or control. ”
“The pandemic is not a once-in-a-century traumatic event, but a revelation of the fragility that lies at the bottom of our way of life. When the true human situation is suddenly exposed, the result is cognitive chaos. Paranoid mass movements – in which human misfortunes are represented as resulting from the machinations of hidden elites – are emerging as powerful forces, not for the first time in modern history. The present danger is that they could divide society and undo the struggle to contain the pandemic. ”
” Links between industrialised farming of animals and infectious disease are not new. It was known that tuberculosis could be passed from cows to humans by the late 19th century, via contaminated milk. Since then, diseases including BSE, avian flu, swine fever and most recently a mutant coronavirus in mink farms, have posed threats to humans. Intensive farming of animals, birds and fish has never been on such a large scale, and as the single biggest user of antibiotics, animal farming has a major role in AMR (anti-microbial resistance), which reduces the effectiveness of drug treatments. The pandemic will not be the last assault on human health to originate in the way we treat our animal kin as if they were insentient resources.
Behind habitat destruction and hellish factory farms is the unmentionable fact of overpopulation. To speak of the very idea is nowadays dismissed as crypto-fascist, but the seminal advocate of stabilising human numbers at a level that would best enhance the quality of life is John Stuart Mill, an old-fashioned liberal progressive who spent a night in gaol for handing out leaflets to working-class women detailing contraceptive methods. Accepting the reality of overpopulation is not Malthusian scare-mongering, but recognising the environmental damage it has produced. ”
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/places/2020/12/year-great-humbling
“When the true human situation is suddenly exposed, the result is cognitive chaos. Paranoid mass movements – in which human misfortunes are represented as resulting from the machinations of hidden elites – are emerging as powerful forces, not for the first time in modern history. “
Apparently, I’m not the only one to spot the ‘humans losing their shit under pressure’ pattern.
https://youtu.be/YoDh_gHDvkk
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I’m sorry, but John Gray might be right about a few things – like population reduction, BUT doesn’t know squat about human overshoot and resource depletion. The reason I say this is his reference to feeding 10 billion humans with “vertical farming”. My best friend from my younger days who I mistakenly thought a genius gave me the “vertical farming” will save us all lecture some days ago. I was so flabbergasted that someone I thought brilliant could be in such fundamental denial of reality to think that something like “vertical farming” made sense. Vertical farming might make economic sense for extremely wealthy customers of high cost produce in Singapore but it does nothing to feed that extra 2 billion. AND I would guess (without delving into the energy involved) that the amount of energy needed to build the infrastructure and grow, maintain, harvest and transport this “food” would probably make it more expensive than growing avocados in Antarctica (or something similar). Please someone correct me if I am wrong (or just wrong headed).
AJ
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They cannot be proven wrong if no one does the calculation /sarc
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So you read the article & vertical farming was your main takeaway?
I don’t know much about vertical farming, but it sounds like more techno hopium to me. That’s why I never included it in my selective quotes, nor did I mention it in my accompanying comments.
I did include what I imagined was the main point/quote a second time & in bold after the link.
“When the true human situation is suddenly exposed, the result is cognitive chaos. Paranoid mass movements – in which human misfortunes are represented as resulting from the machinations of hidden elites – are emerging as powerful forces, not for the first time in modern history. “
Video analogy #2
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I read the article. I see and agree with what you thought important. I was just attempting to point out that the author had huge blind spots. I thought his reference to vertical farming crazy.
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More great tunes to accompany and emphasize meaningful posts. Thanks ‘man (and Rob) for making good music a mainstay here. One of the few remaining deep pleasures we have in this existence.
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Vertical farming is of course crazy. But what about the amazing food production Denmark has achieved with high tech greenhouses?
It sounds very promising until you dig a bit and learn that they are converting cheap natural gas calories into food calories via gas generated electricity for lighting, burned gas for heat and CO2 for the plants, nitrogen fertilizer produced with natural gas via the Haber Bosch process, and glass and cement produced with natural gas. They’re also producing calories we can do without like cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers, and not producing the calories we can’t do without like grains and legumes.
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Grains and legumes alone will leave us short on numerous micronutrients.
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https://srsroccoreport.com/breaking-news-shocking-increase-in-u-s-money-supply-in-past-two-weeks/
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What does this increase mean? I can understand that the M1 increased and that it increased in an unprecedented way but why? What could be wrong ? (other than everything of course but I mean specifically.).
AJ
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I don’t know. But it doesn’t mean that something’s going right.
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Two covers of a classic by Eric Gales. One cool and one hot. Crank up the hot version and enjoy the bass line.
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