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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them
by gedy 11y ago
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken 1922
(n.b. I'm not saying global warming is imaginary.)
- Oletros 11y agoThen what are you saying?
- gedy 11y agoThat politicians love scare tactics about things real or imaginary, and even speculating things like maybe global warming is good in some circumstances (as is the parent), or that we can try things like geoengineering, etc will be quickly dismissed since it does not serve their purposes.
- kafkaesq 11y ago..will be quickly dismissed since it does not serve their purposes. Or because, as in the parent post you're referring to, the logic employed is obviously flimsy.