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Whacking Permalink Archive 13 September 2004 I've been ill. I'm
better now.
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Perry de Havilland, Samizdata
The World According to George Monbiot While in the midst of my last virus-induced vomiting fit, I had time to peruse George Monbiot's website. It's not an activity I'd recommend to healthy people.
Monbiot's mental powers may be on par with Inspector Dreyfuss, yet in today's world, Monbiot gets employed by broadsheets like The Guardian, saving the taxpayer the cost of keeping him medicated. Monbiot's worldview is an upchucked hodgepodge of dreary Marxist prophecy, Luddite pre-industrial fantasy, sub-Chomsky politics and ecological paranoia. Yet what sets Ol' Moonbat apart from his hate-the-world ideological comrades, is just how much he seems to enjoy wallowing in his own misery. While raving batheads like the ISO, radical Islamists and the Greenies are at least marching towards some nutty new dawn, George seems to spend most of his time saying we're fucked, and we deserve it. All that's left is to strip off our clothes and go hump fruit in the forest. There are three obsessions which seem to feed everything George writes: 1a-
Modern society is destroying the environment. 2a-
We are running out of food so everyone will starve to death. 3a-
the capitalist system exploits the third world and keeps it poor. That pretty much covers everything he writes. Let's look at some specifics. Take George on energy:
Gosh. Sounds like the end, don't it? I guess people with brains could point out several hundred examples of new products getting cheaper as a new market develops, though this seems a little beyond Monbiot. Or more likely, solutions scare Monbiot, as they tend to play havoc with his apocalypse fantasies. Think I'm being mean? Have a gander at his sociopathic ideas on environmental aesthetics:
Not surprisingly, Monbiot - horrified by the prospect of despoiling ecological aesthetics - has no problems with bludgeoning us all into becoming good, green, global citizens. He wants to ban private motor vehicles, air travel, stop the evils of advertising and tax corporations till they choke. We can't help the poor to grow GM crops to feed themselves, because GM food is, um, evil or capitalistic or something. Oh, and have I mentioned his...erm....interesting ideas about economics?
Yes, that's a real quote. It comes from this essay:
He might be on to something here. Well, except from all the actual progress which has taken place I guess.
It's kind of like saying that your average doctor believes in immortality.
Uh, what? Oh wait, here's the money quote:
Lovely bloke. Providing for your children, consuming for enjoyment and travelling to see friends is evil, but dismantling modern society for the sake of ecological aesthetics is the new moral imperitive. Not surprisingly, Monbiot drops his moral objections where it suits him. He flies the Evil Skies to give international lectures. He travels by car when he needs to. Global corporations and the mental pollution of advertising are A-OK when they help to sell his books. And the bloke seems rather keen to appear on the idiot box at every opportunity. Monbiot builds his ideological comforts on the lives of others, discards his ideals when they prove incovenient, then has the nerve the lecture the rest of us on responsible citizenship. I've finally worked
out what I'm reading: this is Mein Kampf on acid.
"Suicide-bombers are evil, but...." The Green Left Weekly gives us their view on the Jakarta bombing:
Natually, when Islamic lunatics conduct their slaughter, the Israelis aren't without blame....
And while we're on the subject on Israel and the Green Left Weekly, check out terrorist-loving hag Rihab Charida's report from Ramallah. Oh,
and as for the Beslan massacre, you'll
never guess where the Green Left's sympathies lie.
I gots me a hankering for a Holden HSV Maloo ute
Firebreathing
performance, great looks, nice interior, and I can stick my bikes in the
back.
Crazy Joe Vialls' reaction to the Beslan massacre and the Jakarta bombing: psychological warfare and mini-nukes launched by the Zionist cabal in New York. No, really. It's amazing
these Zionist plotters ever have time to go to the toilet.
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Reading
his collected thoughts reminded me of the final scene in one of the Pink
Panther movies, where Herbert Lom's character - driven mad by his
hatred of Clouseau - lies straightjacketed in a padded room, writing messages
on the walls with a crayon between his toes. 
