http://voegelinview.com Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:39:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://voegelinview.com/?task=view#josc26 Fritz, excellent post. Best one I\'ve read on the current \"Politics in Science\" crisis, and should be widely read. One wonders, what other fields have our scientific friends lied to us? Robert Cheeks Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:34:25 +0100 http://voegelinview.com/?task=view#josc28 Were Voegelin alive (he died right around the time that the global warming crisis reared its ugly head) he would likely describe it as a classic apocalyptic symbolism, in the form of an immanentist crusade. In typical Voegelin fashion, one dismissive statement would have probably sufficed, and then he would have moved on, not troubling himself with the mundane aspects of the debate on the legislative, PR, and media levels. But perhaps there is work to be done on our part, as we frankly watch in dismay as not only \"elites\" but millions of people become absorbed by this fantasy. I remember as a little kid, maybe 7 or 8, while at the beach in my home town, being told by an adult that sea levels were rising. We were standing near a venerable institution in my home town: the Ocean Grill, a restaurant made of drift wood built on pilings that extended over the beach. My parents had taken me there to eat on a couple of special occasions and I had always felt a kind of kinship with the place, so exotic and out of place. The implication was that this venerable institution would eventually collapse into the sea. And I remember feeling very anxious about that. At the same time I remember thinking, why are you telling me this? I\'m just a kid! Well, the Ocean Grill is still there, 50 years later! Sea levels aren\'t rising, the beach is simply undergoing natural erosion, and from time to time the restaurant hires a bulldozer to push up some sand around its pilings, and life goes on. But the terror of man destroying himself through his disruption of nature continues as a kind of publicly inspired nightmare, fomented by people for whom nature is a divinity which we have blasphemed. Owen Jones Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:47:57 +0100