I understand that there are moments when one just absolutely needs to be a brainless, sexist, pompous freak. But is is it really necessary to piss on the memory of Chernobyl while engaging in this useful exercise?
A Very Stupid Article
Opinions, art, debate
Clarissa's Blog 
Link does not appear to work.
LikeLike
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/THE-VEGETABLES-OF-TRUTH
LikeLike
Thank you! I just repaired it, so it should work.
LikeLike
I just skimmed it. Could you tell us why it is so objectionable (aside from the Chernobyl exploitation.) ??
LikeLike
“Science did very well in the second world war and after the war ambitious scientists promised they could build a new kind of world.”
– Science did what very well? What does this even mean?
“But by the 1970s it became clear that there were unforeseen consequences. It started with chemical pollution – especially DDT killing wildlife. But it was nuclear power that really broke the faith in the optimistic view of science – with the disaster at Three Mile Island in the US in 1979.”
– Yes, the joys of Hiroshima were completely eclipsed by Three Mile Island. Everybody had such a positive, happy view of atomic science before 1979!
“In the past politicians’ main aim had been to create a more equal society.”
– Do I even need to address how childish and stupid this hankering for a golden age is? The appeals to the past where sugar was sweeter and apples were rounder are endless, relentless, and boring. One can barely find an article any longer where the author isn’t sighing over how great everything was in that undefined past.
“That was written in 1986 – and it is remarkably prescient. Because that short paragraph pretty much describes the present day mood in our society.”
– The writing is as impotent as the argument. Is the author trying to imitate the way a child speaks on purpose?
“And everyone gives up on the idea of creating equality, which allows inequality to increase massively.”
– I don’t even know what to say about this sentence. Was the author trying to be funny?
“I think the truth probably is that it was the baby boomers losing their youth – and finding themselves unable to face the fact of their own mortality – they started to project their fears onto the rest of society. But somehow people like Beck transformed this into a grand pessimistic ideology.”
– Profound analysis, just really profound.
“It is so moving because they are men from an older world. To them risk is irrelevant. They believe in something grander – bigger than their own lives. ”
– This idiot should know that the people who were sent to work at Chernobyl were not told what was going on, they had no idea there had been an explosion, many of them didn’t know they were in Chernobyl. Most of these people died. This was a crime perpetrated against the people by an inhuman, vicious regime.
I could go on and on because the entire text is just ridiculous. But I will give one more quote:
“He was pretty scathing. The data was dubious he said – because there is no way of finding out if the respondents had lied. He had a good line – “Men lie about smoking. Women lie about vegetables”.
– As a person who lies about smoking, I totally love being informed by some unknown idiot somewhere that I am a man.
LikeLike