Re-primitivizing the First World is an important agenda item for the Left. People who move around less, communicate less, earn less, and live shorter lives are much easier to control. Primitive societies don't have that pesky, independence-minded middle class to worry about.
https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1343904617160171522
Of course, Prince Charles and the other elites have no intention of living in mud huts and practicing subsistence agriculture to improve their "balance with the natural world." That's only for you Deplorables. The ruling class will travel, communicate, and consume as it sees fit.
Useful idiots have this romantic vision of primitive life as harmony with nature. It's part of their Marxist anti-capitalist indoctrination in school and popular culture. If only we were as wise and selfless as the noble primitives with their Earth-friendly communal lifestyles!
The cannier thought leaders and organizers on the Left know they probably can't trick industrialized populations into living like primitive tribesman, but the goal is to embed that in popular imagination as the ideal they should strive toward.
That way, the public comes to see anything "less" than sustainable primitive communal tribalism in perfect harmony with the Earth and near-zero carbon footprints as a "compromise." They'll pay a LOT, and give up a lot of freedom, to get closer to the ideal.
In come the snake-oil salesmen with promises that if we just spend trillions on Green New Deals, solar and wind boondoggles, etc. - and give them the power to FORCE people to use those things - we can get closer to the primitive ideal without giving up all modern conveniences.
Once you can convince people they really SHOULD be living in mud huts, eating bugs (you may have noticed that weird obsession of the eco-Left), burning zero carbon, and living in primitive communes, they'll be more willing to make sacrifices and "compromise" with that vision.
And they'll be willing to see the people who resist those compromises as "criminals" who should be forced to give up their "selfish" ways, which of course is the grand goal of the Left in all things: to make good people feel like criminals so they accept a larger punitive State.
Embracing the primitive ideal in every way, from climate change ideology to pop-culture idiocy like "Avatar," is a way of making modern life feel like a crime that merits a wise, powerful, punitive central government to punish and control its millions of perpetrators. /end
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
