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Is This The Face That Launched The One-World Totalitarian Government?

12/4/2019

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Saint Greta of the Climate Crisis
I suspect most readers of this blog are about as averse to reading the news as I am; nevertheless I find it useful to scan headlines and articles once in a while in order to gather inferences and insights into what the Global Establishment are doing in their quest to establish a totalitarian one-world government.

I believe the following excerpts from a New York Times opinion piece by film director Darren Aronofsky ("Black Swan"/"The Wrestler") published on Dec. 2. provide valuable insights into the means the Establishment is using to push the narrative of an impending, unavoidable climate catastrophe, one they will most likely end up orchestrating themselves as a pretext for an unprecedented power grab that will either usher in or take us all one step closer toward this one-world totalitarian government. Oddly enough, one of these means is in the form a teenage girl from Sweden. (Bold added by me.)


As a director, I’m in constant pursuit of the right image. And I’ll admit that I’ve often fallen prey to cynicism when looking for a visual to best convey the current state of the world, confronted as it is with such terrifying environmental challenges. It’s hard to be optimistic about the visual encapsulation of our dying planet.

Yet, as soon as I saw an Instagram photo of Greta Thunberg staging her first environmental protest in August 2018, I knew. There she was, a 15-year-old girl, sitting outside the Swedish Parliament, on strike from school to bring attention to climate change. Here was the image — one of hope, commitment and action — I needed to see. An image that could spark a movement.

I’m certain that future generations will look at the first few photographs of Ms. Thunberg — dwarfed in a yellow raincoat, calm but defiant, refusing to take no for an answer — as a representation of the early days of a major cultural shift. I have no doubt that she will become an icon for the climate crisis — if she isn’t one already.


I’ve long believed that visual language is the ultimate tool of communication and connection. In the face of climate change, however, it has become clear that images aren’t enough. We’ve all seen the documentaries and the countless photographs: melting glaciers, oil-soaked seal pups, beached whales. But nothing has changed.

Ms. Thunberg has brought the conversation on climate change out of the theoretical. She has made it human, tangible and urgent. Her protest is stark in its simplicity and brilliant in its lack of frills; she’s merely telling the truth. And for the first time, it feels as if people are listening.

We would be doing a great disservice to Ms. Thunberg — and the planet — if we failed to change. It would be criminal to continue ignoring the truths that she, and countless scientists, have so clearly presented to us. It would be a waste to do anything less than throw the full heft of our support behind her. We don’t need to wait for history to catch up and tell us what we already know. We have plenty of reports telling us how dire the situation is; we are being willfully blind if we don’t read them. We must act. We must vote for people who believe in science.

There’s a tremendous amount of work ahead. I know many of us feel paralyzed by the enormousness of the task, or too scared to look directly at the problem. I doubt the right path forward will be comfortable or clear; things will probably get worse before they get better.

We are in the midst of a crisis, and the only way we can combat it is to engage, human to human, with all the messiness and complications that are bound to arise. It won’t make for a pretty picture, but desperate times rarely do.


Of course, St. Thunberg is far more than a mere icon; she's also a popular children's book hero, as can be seen below: 
Note added: I have vowed to avoid writing "outrage du jour" posts on this blog - rants that focus on some topical piece of media trolling meant to inspire a rise - but I felt this opinion piece provides a good illustration of how the Establishment goes about selling a "crisis" to the general public. And in all fairness, I haven't really engaged in any ranting . . . merely pointing something out . . . 
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bruce charlton
12/4/2019 19:55:16

[Shakes head] It's such an obvious fake, and always has been, and yet... In a world where people can change sex at will - and everyone else is compelled to acknowledge this as fact, I suppose nothing should surprise us.

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Francis Berger
12/4/2019 21:07:26

@ Bruce - My sentiments exactly. It's all so utterly flagrant. All of it. Yet many are swallowing it - hook, line, and sinker.

I get the sense they are prepping us to recognize and accept the thing when it occurs. The blatant urgency behind these messages troubles me most of all. As for the girl - I can't help but pity her.

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thisisme
12/5/2019 05:16:02

"I can't help but pity her." I wonder if people that use children, not pure fact, as the face to push an agenda might be counting on that pity? Now I will fly back to the wall and listen quietly. Thank you.

RDG
12/6/2019 00:34:22

No pity here. She knows exactly what she is doing and takes immense joy in being "used". She's just another left wing grifter.

thisisme
12/5/2019 04:54:57

"We must vote for people who believe in science." I thought science was something you do to FIND something to believe. They are really asking that we believe their consensus. Show your work proving the science. Science is not always truth. Preaching to the choir. Or am I mistaken?

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Francis Berger
12/5/2019 11:20:29

@ thisisme - This is an extremely obvious example of an appeal to authority. In reality, there is no real science backing the claims the climate crisis hysterics are promulgating. None whatsoever.

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TwoDogs
12/5/2019 05:54:27

She's toast. The mockery from the right is deafening, you just haven't heard it yet. Little saint Greta is already irrelevant.

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Francis Berger
12/5/2019 06:14:32

@ TwoDogs - Well, that's comforting to know. The whole climate crisis is irrelevant - yet there is a hysterical push to make it the most relevant thing in the world, as the opinion piece from the NYT illustrates. And the thing is, it HAS become relevant in the minds of many, with or without St. Greta.

@ thisisme - I don't pity her because of the cause she supports, but rather because she is being used as a means by the Global Establishment. I do, however, agree with your notion - many people will be inclined to the message she represents out of feelings of pity/sympathy.

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Joe Blow
12/5/2019 13:41:06

Yes, it is the gnashing and wailing and hysterics of late that have created the divide. In an effort to push more sheeple over yhe edge, they have succeeded only in alienating a larger part of the population to their cause. Akin to the 2016 election, their choice of living in sn echo chamber has prevented them from seeing that the coin has 2 sides.
The worm is turning, you can feel it, question remains will it complete its roll over exercise.

Bruce Charlton
12/5/2019 08:20:52

There is a sense in which I feel sorry for almost everybody, including the servants of evil and the demonically possessed. That's fine, so long as we are not paralysed by it into avoiding difficult but necessary choices.

But this is just one of those abstract pseudo emotions that we have been trained into by the mass media - like the way we have instant opinions on everything; or that infinite universal abstract altruism that people have so glibly expressed since the middle 1960s.

My *impression* of the girl is that she is deeply evil, and would - if given the chance and the power - impose a totalitarian tyranny of extreme cold cruelty and ruthlessness - everything justified by how it makes *her* feel (rather like Jadis, the white witch in Narnia). Of course, I only know what we are allowed to see and are told - which is certainly false.

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Francis Berger
12/5/2019 11:18:24

That's an excellent point, Bruce. Pity was a poor word choice on my part. When I said I couldn't help but pity her, I was not implying that I felt any sort of compassion, sympathy, or tenderness for her or the cause with which she has become synonymous - and I certainly do not feel any sense of mercy toward her or her cause. Quite the opposite.

My sense of pity in this case is more of a deep sadness at the evil and stupidity of it all. Nevertheless, I do not allow this sorrow to cloud my judgement in this case. Simply put, I feel no sense of mercy toward her and do not grant an ounce of generosity or leniency toward her or her evil cause.

And I agree with your assessment of this young person's nature and character. I worked with teenagers for well over a decade, and I was always rather disturbed by colleagues who simply refused to acknowledge that some kids were just evil. They would claim a kid was merely rebellious, or naughty, or mischievous, and then went to great lengths to cut the kid a lot of slack (which always inevitably did little more than increase the evil).

We can feel sorrow for evil, but this sorrow must never make accommodations or excuses for evil.

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Berglander
12/5/2019 14:03:57

I wonder what kind of ethnic and religious background Darren Aronofsky was brought up in? Surely it'll surprise me to no end when I go to Wikipedia and look in the "Early Life and Education" section...

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True Believers
12/5/2019 15:06:07

Blaspheme Saint Greta while you can. When she is Führerette there will be a price to pay for such wrongthink.

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Francis Berger
12/5/2019 16:10:02

@ True Believers - And that's no joke.

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Ingemar
12/5/2019 18:12:54

It is not error to peddlers of idolatry. See: Prophet Elijah.

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DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
12/5/2019 15:53:17

This reminds me of the kids around the campfire doing a weenie roast. The caption reads: "Everything's fine until someone loses their wiener".
The big kumbaya circle jerk paid for by the handlers of this junior psychopath is no different than the circle jerk here in Amerika after the Parkland shooting, with the young Mr. Hogg-Goebbels leading the charge of useful idiots. TPTB could not get any traction with that so they wheel out this autistic little cretin and scream about dead Polar Bears.
Try telling all of the desperate, sheeple trying to stay above water in the increasing economic chaos that the Leviathan wants to institute another transportation tax to save the whales. A Howard Beale will arise to shout back how we are all mad as hell and will not take it anymore. The blowback from the working stiffs will not work well for the rent-a-mobs funded by Soros and the other satanic Globalists.

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William Wildblood
12/6/2019 12:46:25

I certainly don't pity her. She's a self-righteous prig on a charitable assessment and may even be in some measure possessed. How unspiritual of me to say such things but the time is coming when we will have to call a spade a spade.

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Francis Berger
12/6/2019 22:49:13

@William - If I had written a post titled "Ten Reasons Why I Pity Greta Thunberg", I would understand all the objections I have received regarding my "pity" comment.

When I said I pitied her, I was not referring to any sense of compassion or mercy, rather to something more subtle.

I am sometimes wrong, and my judgement is occasionally off, but when it comes to GT and the Climate Crisis gang, I only see spades, as well. I made an attempt to clarify my remark about pity in today's post.

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William Wildblood link
12/7/2019 09:12:08

I'm definitely not meaning to criticise you, Francis. I've thought the same thing myself in the past and I do pity her in a way. After all she's only a child really. But I now see this emotion as a bit of a trap that makes one give her the benefit of the doubt because she's 'only' a young and innocent girl. (I haven't read your new post yet so you may have already made this point).

And maybe you're just nicer than me!

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Francis Berger
12/7/2019 19:16:03

@ William - You're absolutely right about the trap aspect of pity. And I did not get the sense that you were being critical - you were merely expressing your (correct) view.

This post proved very valuable to me - it helped me understand I need to be careful when I use a word like 'pity' because it can be easily misinterpreted.

As for being nicer, I'm not sure. I can be rather difficult. My wife will happily verify that!


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