I didn’t know the Depopulation Cult was this big.
A 3-year-old column reminds me that propaganda WORKS ... and has warped the thinking of countless Americans.
My late father once told me something that’s always stayed with me.
“Bill, other people aren’t like us.”
I thought of Dad’s quote when I read the column that follows.
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I’ve always been a fan of Reader Comments’ sections, where you can often find bits of important information and sage wisdom. Depending on the website you’re visiting, a contrarian journalist can also easily discern the views of people who don’t think anything like, say, myself or my late father.
My last Substack article parsed a New York Times’ article which finally acknowledged that at least a few people might have suffered injuries from their Covid “vaccines.”
Many New York Times’ subscribers who made reader comments seem to agree with the author that the Covid vaccines are a “triumph” of science even though “very rare” side effects might have caused harm to a tiny percentage of the population (and, also, they don’t work).
After I wrote this story, one of my subscribers emailed me a column from July 27 2021 written by Dennis Prager, who simply presented a sample of comments that followed a Climate Change opinion piece by Times’ star columnist Maureen Dowd.
While I thought many New York Times’ readers and journalists might be loons, I didn’t know they were this crazy … nor held a view of the future that was this dark or perverse.
Be it Covid or Climate Change, it’s clear that plenty of people do not think like the Rice family.
Here’s Prager’s column, edited slightly for length. Headline:
The Media Produces Derangement:
Proof From New York Times Readers
This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the “existential threat” climate change allegedly poses to human life.
As I do after almost every piece I read on the internet, I read comments submitted by readers. One provided me with an epiphany. It was a comment submitted by New York Times reader “Sophia” of Bangor, Maine:
“I have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming.
“She’s now 34 and has never changed her mind. So, I will not experience a grandchild. For her wisdom, I am grateful. I would be heartsick if I did have a grandchild who would have to experience the onslaught of changing climate.”
It is hard to imagine greater proof than that comment of the power of mass media and of the left. That a normal woman would celebrate her daughter’s choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother can only be described as deranged. No normal-thinking human being would think that way. Jews had children during the Holocaust and made sure to have children if they survived the Holocaust.
Does this deranged woman know how few people are dying due to weather-related incidents in the era of global warming?
Danish statistician and economist Bjorn Lomborg noted this past week:
“… The preliminary estimate of 2021 climate-related deaths (is) 5,569 or 98.9% lower than the 1920s …“The newest Lancet study of heat and cold deaths show(s) that cold ‘vastly’ outweigh heat, and that climate actually has dramatically lowered (the number of) total death(s) … ”
Of course, none of that matters to Sophia — because she relies on The New York Times (and probably NPR and CNN) for her understanding of the world.
For more proof of how deranged many New York Times readers — and Washington Post readers, CNN viewers and NPR listeners — are because they rely on these sources for what they believe about the world, here are some replies to Sophia’s comment from other New York Times’ readers:
B. Rothman, New York City:
“I completely agree. I have 6 grandchildren and weep inside for the calamitous life that is ahead for them.”
Ida Martinac, Berkeley, California:
“I weep with you, Sophia. Whenever I look my 11 year old daughter in the eyes I feel so many emotions: guilt for bringing her into this dying world.”
Liberal, Texas:
“I feel your pain. I have 2 sons. Neither one will have children and their partners agree. I’ll never have grandchildren. But I also realize that their decisions have in some way been molded by me. I am proud of their decision.”
Liz, Portland:
“Frankly, as someone who has been concerned about climate change, and observing what is happening over the last ten years with real dread, I do not understand why anyone in the last ten years would voluntarily have a child.”
CC, Sonoma, California:
“My only daughter shares your daughter’s feelings. I will have no grandchildren. As I watch my peers enjoying their final years surrounded by grandchildren, I can’t help feeling a little jealous. At the same time … our daughters are stepping up to the challenge. I’m proud of them.”
Marisa Leaf, Brooklyn, New York:
“I, too, am coming to terms and accepting that my 36 year old son will not have a child as well — for stated reasons. It is painful for me when I watch other young men and women his age going about town with their children. But I understand, and concur, on an intellectual level, that of course they’re right. Bringing more children into the world these days is an existential worry. And irresponsible. So, as I grieve for our planet, I also grieve for the grandchildren that I will never have.”
Continues Prager:
What do all these deranged reactions have in common? How could so many people living in the healthiest, wealthiest society in human history welcome not having grandchildren? The answer is they have been brainwashed by the media (and college).
They have read and heard nothing — absolutely nothing — by scientists and scholars (such as Steve Koonin of NYU, Richard Lindzen of MIT or William Happer of Princeton, to name just three) who have studied climate change and found the hysteria morally as well as scientifically indefensible. It is not possible to live a life insulated from left-wing ideas. But it is extraordinarily easy to lead a life insulated from all non-left-wing ideas.
So, then, the epiphany I had was this: A majority of people will believe anything the mass media tell them. This is especially true of those who received a college education. Colleges teach students not to question, not think for themselves and not to think rationally.
That is why many people believe the world is coming to an end; it is good not to have children or grandchildren; men give birth; Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; Israel is an apartheid state; all-black dormitories on college campuses are progressive; there should be fewer police; it is fair to women to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports; and myriad other absurdities.
There is no other explanation for these deluded readers of The New York Times.
However, I do agree with them on one point. I, too, support their children’s decisions not to have children. The world doesn’t need more fools.
Don’t ask me how or why, but Substack Metrics tell me I lost 3 paid subscribers after my last article. Maybe I can rally with this piece. Ko-Fi writer tips are also greatly appreciated. .
I will disagree with one point made in Dennis Prager's excellent column. I think we actually need "fewer police" (at least in many American cities).
Last Thursday I attended a flag-tag football game between the Charles Henderson Middle School football Trojans vs. a team made up of some of the members of the City of Troy Police Department. (My daughter is now a cheerleader for the Baby Trojans and this was her first cheering gig).
There must have been 25 police officers playing in the game. They all looked like they were in their 20's and could still play. My thought was, "Damn; How many police officers do we now have on the force?" I live in a town with a population of only 19,000 people. It looked like to me that there were more police officers playing in the flag-tag game than had been on the entire force back when I was playing football on the very same field in 1979.
Civil liberties columnist John Whitehead has long warned that we are becoming a "Police State," and I can see what he's writing about even in my sleepy little town.
Troy, Alabama, circa 2024, definitely isn't Mayberry, NC circa 1964. And these were just the off-duty cops.
BTW, the Police rallied to win the game (but I scouted some 8th grade Trojans that look pretty darn good to me).
Was the climate already heating up 25 years ago? I think in the 70s we were going into an ice age. Recently I saw a collage of magazine front pages with all of that nutcase stuff. You know, this is because people have too much time on hand. If they had to work hard all day, planting, weeding, shoveling, harvesting, they would not have time to worry about unexisting 'problems'. They would fall in bed exhausted every night and dream of blueberries !.