A scan of this morning’s newspapers reveals that the Global Platonic Republic is about to launch a new campaign to fund its dangerous Collectivist ambitions on the broadest possible scale.
Cleverly, it has hit upon a one-two solution of undertaking a cynical expoitation of the economically-illiterate Bono-Geldorf generation’s anti-poverty wristband sloganeering, even as it plays on the scientifically-bewildered Soccer Moms’ angst-ridden ache to “Save the Planet” from the supposed depradations of their own monster 4×4, hyperconsumer shopping-wagons.
But, the new Saint-Simonians will not just invite us to pay extra global “sin” taxes, like benighted peasants queuing up to buy indulgences from the Pardoner. More fiendishly, the grafting Corporatists who comprise hoi Phyllakes have realised that they will garner even more support in their endeavours to deny personal liberty on a planetary dimension by keeping the Money Trust firmly onside.
This they will achieve by the Machiavellian means of offering the juicy prospect of a whole host of lucrative new trading and securitization schemes, generously stuffed with tax-payer supported largesse to be earned by the funny-money zillionaires financing the new green Utopia.
Does this seem far-fetched?
Possibly, but how else do we explain the ‘coincidence’ of the NWO’s poster boy, Bill Clinton, elevating the fiction of “Global Warming” to the status of Public Enemy No.1 at Davos; UK PM (Pseudo-Messiah) Antoine RobespiBlaire casting aside his recent bout of climate realism with a whole-hearted endorsement of a true “State of Fear” report from “the world’s leading scientists” (sic); and a new brain-wave from the UN Development Programme that an associated $7 trillion slice of financial engineering will deliver us not to a land, but a whole wide world, of milk and honey and so usher in the new Millennium?
HG Wells must be grinning on his infernal griddle!
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I guess the following newpaper article was written in reference this. I read it, and it made absolutely no sense to me. It sounded like another scheme to get governments to fund UN aid programs.
UN Trying to get $7 Trillion by “Unlocking”(Stealing is the word I would use) Untapped Wealth
Mr. Corrigan,
As is usual with your postings, thanks for making the depressing (because of their economic and scientific illiteracy and ethical bankruptcy) news stories and pronouncements from the “learned” at least modestly humorous. Given the constant barrage of the mainstream’s lies and worthless babble that we are subjected to, the humor that you manage to weave into your factual and reasoned arguments helps me to keep an optimistic outlook. Thanks again.
Should I be afraid or just very sad?
I’m w/ Scott, but both afraid and sad. ;-(
it’s either laugh or cry boys… I just can’t wait for the blue helmets to save us from ourselves in a few years time.
Like all Corrigan articles, cutting through the prose just isn’t worth the effort. Does Mises pay him by the word?
- Josh
… I found it understandable. Your level of literacy is none of my concern.
Literacy is not taught in the public schools. Unfortunately, Mr. Pegasus didn’t realize no one is forcing him to read (or comment) at all.
I relish the wit and satire, and the excellent use of English, like a cold rain on the hot, muggy day of listening to the 800 word vocabulary of the Public School graduates.
Cleverly, it has hit upon a one-two solution of undertaking a cynical expoitation of the economically-illiterate Bono-Geldorf generation’s anti-poverty wristband sloganeering, even as it plays on the scientifically-bewildered Soccer Moms’ angst-ridden ache to “Save the Planet” from the supposed depradations of their own monster 4×4, hyperconsumer shopping-wagons.
That’s the kind of English that belongs in Social Text, boys.
- Josh
I think this should be the basis for a new version of Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities. The Masters of the (new) Universe are already lining up in costume ready to take their places. Corrigan, do you write fiction?
Josh wrote:
“That’s the kind of English that belongs in Social Text, boys.”
Really? I found it quite amusing, and English is not even my mother tongue.
Mr. Corrigan’s prodigious command of the English (as opposed to the ‘Murrican) language aside, strip all of the feel-good pretense away from the UN program, and what you are left with is a particularly nasty form of global fascism, as we pointed out here;
http://www.libertyguys.org/articles/detail.asp?ArtID=1230
Chime in if you like!
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