WITH the rise of big government convinced that belief in a climate crisis will be good for us, it is perhaps pertinent to remember George Orwell and his novel ‘1984’. The term ‘Orwellian’, his idea that wellbeing is crushed by restrictive, authoritarian and untruthful government, has its origin here. Read more.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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I know the situation well – the tragedy is the hoi-polloi who seem so easily gulled by the specious arguments of guvmint, usually represented here by Luke, SJT, Gavin and other recipients of tax-payer stolen money.
In addition there is a little clue in grammatical error in the previous post, and I’ll wait for its indentification and elucidation.
I don’t expect Luke, SJT, SOD, and the other climate-idjits to recognise it.
Cohenite might be up before his professional society if he can’t. 🙂
Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was a distant relation of mine (Great-Uncle I believe).
There is a mild strangeness that runs through our part of the Blair clan. It was in my father and grandfather, and is in my son too.
If Orwell ran true to type he would, like my son, have had a very high IQ, be intensely concerned with right and wrong, exceedingly sensitive and, although extremely empathetic, found any but the most intense relationships difficult to maintain. Which I think is rather what Orwell was like.
My little contribution to the nature vs. nurture debate …
“WITH the rise of big government convinced that belief in a climate crisis will be good for us, it is perhaps pertinent to remember George Orwell and his novel ‘1984’. ”
Paranoid hysteria.