barking

so anyway, are Americans actually insane? George Monbiot is a partisan, true, but he's on the side of teh good. this should be a clarion call to people of goodwill. it is full of science and shit. i know Americans hate that stuff, but the rest of us have to WAKE THE FUCK UP.

American rightists deny this is happening because they are selfish, self-absorbed cunts. but are they actually insane?

i'm beginning to think they must be. these people are seriously considering as their leader a man who believes the earth is 6000 years old. this is the man they think should lead them as they face the challenges of what will be particularly difficult years, as it dawns on even the dimmest of us that yes, the world is warming, and yes, it will have bad outcomes for many of us, and yes, we are on the downslope of oil production (you fucktards just haven't noticed that the price of oil never did get back down to $40 and guys, it never will -- you have been lied to, over and over, and you didn't have the sense to check it out for yourself), and no one is putting any money into alternatives. Shell just closed down its solar projects, and is concentrating on tar sands.

we pursued money over happiness, and we're not happy, and our riches will be worth nothing when this world burns.

their other choice is a man who fervently believes a cosmic zombie who died to redeem us for being naughty consorted with the American Indians for no particular good reason. i'd sooner elect someone who thought Lord of the Rings was history. for fuck's sake.

and dude, don't start me. Ron Paul Love? WTF? WTF WTF WTF?? the guy's an apostle of hate, an icon of selfishness, greed, self-obsessedness. he's the cunt's cunt. Ron Paul LOVE??? you people are fucking demented, no question.

and it's not just Americans. look at these lunatics.

'Evolution has falsely become the foundation of our society and we need the television studio to advocate Genesis across this land in order to remove this falsehood, which presently is destroying the church foundation.'

OMFG.

look, just in case you're not clear, science tries to figure out the truth about the world. it doesn't take a stance on what the truth is. it doesn't want to destroy religion, Richard Dawkins notwithstanding. it just wants to look at the world and be able to say this is what it is.

it is not contestable that evolution happens. it is not contestable that the world has warmed because of anthropogenic forcing. these things are true, and you can count on it, in a way you cannot count on much in this world. both are, roughly, 99 per cent true. and these fucktards are playing in the margin, the one per cent of uncertainty.

and you know what, your god's in there too. he's in the one per cent. it's a fucking ridiculous fairy story but we can't prove, and never will be able to prove it. there will never be a time machine (bank that--it's just not going to happen ever) and we will never be able to prove it with archaeology or any other means. and dude, he's not going to talk to us, or anything like that, because he doesn't exist.

and "evolution has become the foundation of our society" is code. you know what it's code for? it means "rationalism is teh bad; bring back the dark ages". it means "fuck the truth, i want my fairy story".

fuck the truth. that's what you one percenters are all about. fucking the truth and damning the consequences. and we have to wear it, because some very greedy men and women are enabled by you idiots, and we are too scattered, too powerless, to stop them from not just fucking the truth, but fucking the rest of us too.

but i say, this life is meaningless, stupid and ridiculous. i say that the only way it gains any meaning is if we only accept the truth. we take the truth, whether we like it or not, and we make that the only thing we worship. it won't do us an ounce of good, no, but at least we won't be confusing ourselves that anything does.

btw, while we're on the subject of the American election, it should be obligatory for candidates to have done coke, you fucking wowsers. how can you trust a person to be your leader if he has never even done a toot? and you know, if you'd pass up a guy who's been about a bit in favour of a guy who thinks that FairTax would work, you really are insane, the lot of you.

posted by Dr Zen @ 3:24 pm