Bishop Hill Ivo on George
Jun 18, 2014 Greens Ivo Vegter has written a brilliant analysis of the phenomenon that is George Monbiot.
[Monbiot] divides the world into two stereotypes: people like him – who care about things like intimacy, kindness, self-acceptance, independent thought and action – and the rest of us – who don’t think for ourselves, fear other people, hate ourselves, are cruel and cold, and couldn’t care less about nature. We’d sell our own mothers if a toff with a demagogic streak told us he’d get an immigrant to wax our banger, because that’s how common we are. (And by “banger” I mean “old car”, of course.)
So, now Monbiot has discovered that he was wrong about that too. Without any apparent self-consciousness about his own opinion of last month, he writes: “We've tended to assume people are more selfish than they really are.”
Yes, you have tended to assume that, George. That’s why people don’t like you. That’s why people don’t listen to you. You’re wrong all the time. You insult people for saying so. And you’re condescending enough to think they can be manipulated by some shiny new spin.
If there is any justice in the world the article will put an end to George's career. However, the ability of the tofu-eating classes to stand behind and indeed celebrate any harebrained megalomaniac, no matter how often they are proved wrong, will no doubt win out as it always does.
Reader Comments (54)
I have never read anything that Moonbat has written because he came to my attention on a news clip where he was ranting, in that way that only a zealot can, about some environmental issue. It was all in the eyes; the man looked like a nutcase.
Thanks for Ivo's article. Some of the comments under it were interesting. I particularly liked this one:-
"ClimateLearner • a day ago
Spot-on. The man is in a sorry state, like a neurotic old maid permanently standing on her chair screeching about one mouse after another entering her field of vision. He takes breaks of course, he steps down from his metaphorical chair to pen articles aimed at getting his followers to screech along with him. I guess many of them do, but not so many of the rest of us do any such thing. Hence his new angst."
Josh?
£67,000 annually from the Guardian for what he produces. It makes me sick up in my mouth.
http://www.monbiot.com/registry-of-interests/
A Lovell (10:33 AM): while I don’t regret reading the article, I do regret getting involved in the comments – there are some truly bizarre thinkers out there: apparently, “The 2004 Indonesia Tsunami (temporarily) raised the local sea-level by several kilometres…” This does seem an over-exaggeration, but all becomes clear: “…but the vertical rise was just a few meters.[sic]” Well, what do you know! Sea-level has nothing to do with the height of the sea surface, but everything to do with how far inland it goes. This makes the tidal range in Morecambe Bay one of several MILES! Who knew?