tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889026769761133073.post4852397017169327707..comments2023-12-22T08:42:36.132+00:00Comments on Gaian Economics: Men of Misplaced FaithMollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845612174674783187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889026769761133073.post-90731958195848411122012-03-01T09:20:20.918+00:002012-03-01T09:20:20.918+00:00Well,I'm not surprised to hear these comments ...Well,I'm not surprised to hear these comments about Dawkins.Of course,in a democratic world,people have a right to be who they want to be.That includes being utterly selfish bores-It seems to pay off handsomely.The real problem for the West is one of ennui,lack of awareness and lack of wanting to be aware.We have done our dash.A long struggle to escape from the clutches of the Roman Catholic mind control,and to establish tolerable government,from the Reformation to de-colonialisation/corporate globalisation.The people are tired.They want to stay in a rut,any rut.The majority are "allright,Jack".It is not that they cannot conceive of an alternative,to set the democratic West on a new basis,but that they don't want to.A tiny minority are awake.A larger minority are fake feminist,fake socialist,fake environmentalist.It is mostly a middle class mentality,but not excluding the newly jumped up working class,who have a better lifestyle but not the qualities of the old middle class.We need a quantum jump to re-invent ourselves.It should start where people are most motivated,or purportedly so.The female feminists,chardonnay socialists and the gentrifying environmentalists need be confronted by the real paradigm changers about their hypocrisy-they are kidding themselves.Yet,they turn a deaf ear.They don't want to know.As the old West,we deserve our fate,mate.(Jacob Jonker).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com