The
Secular Creed of Greta Thunberg: Myth based on Science
By Karla Poewe
As the
video included in this piece shows, Greta Thunberg speaks out her creed as
follows:
We are Homo sapiens sapiens
of the family Hominidae
of the order Primates
of the class Mammalia
of the kingdom animalia
We are part of nature
We are social animals
We are naturally drawn to our leaders
Here is the fundamental black and white reality that, she
says, is a natural expression of her being a child with Asperger’s syndrome and
selective mutism. It makes her the unique proponent of a world whose carbon
footprint will become no more than ancient history, if and only if we follow
the right advice now. All we need to do, is to see her as a child-prophet who
confronts world leaders with a clear choice, one as clear as black is from white,
where only white can be chosen and acted upon to create the new world.
What is the perspective from which she sees the human being?
She is most clear about this too? We view our condition from our place in nature,
and specifically from that of the world of social animals who, as scientists
observe, are naturally drawn to leaders—our leaders—that is leaders of the
world of social animals of which we are the natural followers.
But the world of social animals is far too broad a concept
for Greta Thunberg. After all, would it not also include dangerous animals
driven by instincts to kill and dominate—to live without foresight for carbon
emissions control? How abhorrent concepts of instinct, unpredictability, wild
emotion, reliance on the senses must be to a young teenager like Greta Thunberg.
So Thunberg
dichotomizes further. Her social world consists only of Children
dying from Economic Growth and Leaders to which they are naturally drawn.
— But these leaders to whom we are naturally drawn, by whom we are naturally
influenced, to whom we naturally listen, have for the most part failed their
responsibility. Therefore, the children who are victimized by irresponsible
leaders, need a mediator or mediators between Leaders and Economic Growth,
as if the latter were Moloch; or as if Economic Growth were personified as
Moloch, the ancient (heaven forbid, biblical) god associated with the sacrifice
of children.
I bracket the word “biblical” because, of course, it has no
place in Greta Thunberg’s thinking nor in that which influences it. The Influencers
or Leaders are presidents, celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and journalists. Most
importantly, however, since these Influencers failed to meet their
responsibility, Thunberg needs Mediators. She finds them in the form of
specific “Scientists” and, having found them, admonishes influential Leaders to listen. By Mediators are meant the Scientists for Future who stand for consensus among
scientists about climate change. And the consensus that must be accepted is that
climate is changed by human beings.[1]It
is these scientists too that justify young people’s activism, for example, the
demonstrations of Fridays for Future or Climate Strikes. Likewise, Thunberg’s language comes
largely from this group, hence the familiar phrases, “best available science”,
“mass extinction”, “tipping points” and “climate emergency.”
But why are human beings the creators of this emergency?
The answer is clear too. We do not know the basic facts. “We have not been told
or, more importantly, we have never been told by the right people.” When we are
told the facts by the right people, we act (See the link below).
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The Thunberg-phenomenon has a vague resemblance to the film Metropolis. In 1924 A German film producer named Fritz Lang visited New York. The skyscrapers and masses of people most of who lived like slaves inspired him. Returned to Germany, he excited the völkisch writer Thea von Harbou who soon wrote the screenplay Metropolis. It is the city of the future of technology where masses of workers (called Hands) labour with great effort on a 'Heart Machine' that keeps the city functioning.
The conditions and nature of the work was, however, extremely oppressive. Consequently, desperate workers began listening to a young saintly girl who promises them a Mediator, one who will help them regain a balance between the Heart and Brain. In the meantime, she prevents an open revolt of the worker against the Brain, meaning the Lord of the Metropolis. The Mediator (son of the Lord of the city who was not corrupted by the Lord's offer of every indulgence imaginable) finally succeeds to prevent the rebellion.
The central meaning of this science fiction fantasy is that the sleep-walking mass of workers (the Hand) is unable to negotiate change on their own behalf, thus threatening revolt. They need a Führer (the Mediator) to make the Brain (the Leader) listen.
In the nineteen-twenties, post-WWI Germans believed that only a strong Mediator could end the paralyzing quarrels among the various political Parties and their leaders and make them listen and act to set things right.
The conditions and nature of the work was, however, extremely oppressive. Consequently, desperate workers began listening to a young saintly girl who promises them a Mediator, one who will help them regain a balance between the Heart and Brain. In the meantime, she prevents an open revolt of the worker against the Brain, meaning the Lord of the Metropolis. The Mediator (son of the Lord of the city who was not corrupted by the Lord's offer of every indulgence imaginable) finally succeeds to prevent the rebellion.
The central meaning of this science fiction fantasy is that the sleep-walking mass of workers (the Hand) is unable to negotiate change on their own behalf, thus threatening revolt. They need a Führer (the Mediator) to make the Brain (the Leader) listen.
In the nineteen-twenties, post-WWI Germans believed that only a strong Mediator could end the paralyzing quarrels among the various political Parties and their leaders and make them listen and act to set things right.
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The link to Greta’s link to her talk at The Austrian World Summit, May 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwptXauY2is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwptXauY2is