The rich liberals are standing in quicksand and blaming it on climate change.

He quoted all kinds of so-called problems, but he never owned up to doing anything to solve a single one. For example, if a million pounds of food are being wasted daily, AND 30,000 kids are dying of malnutrition daily, why hasn't he connected the dots and divert that wasted food to feed those dying kids?!? It was nothing but a tantrum pretending to be morally superior to the rest of us.

Using the Ayn Rand quote at the end reminds me of an article I read where the liberal talking points were all followed by quotes from the Bible to make it look as if liberals were morally superior. It was contrived and ridiculous. Goes to show that liberals can skewer just about anything.

they already have....... -- j
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Your correct, they are not an autonomous group, each has a different perspective. They don't realize that government is at the heart of it all and yes we have some big problems, if it wasn't for the government of incompetence and lack of moral values, (Ethics) we could solve these problems.
As for the quote, How ever they frame their argument, misguided or not. Yea, I wouldn't be worried about the forests or sucking out oil from the earth; for a moment I thought I was in the presence of gaia or something, but I would like to see more recycling, hell, with some innovation it could be profitable...oh, I forgot, they don't like profit. Their whole motif comes from some evil anyway...long forgotten the story. But the fact is the general population is blind, unaware that they have been manipulated by the kakistocracy.. So ignoring the problems won't alleviate the consequences of those problems. Have we reached critical mass? max entropy?..no...but it will get more difficult the longer we ignore reality. We start that process by unrevising history and learning how to critically thing...grow a work ethic, stop crying. The threat is within government, fix that and all the other stuff the free market could fix. vote with your head on, vote with your feet and your dollar.

their message is anti-capitalist, but the Rand quote
is true, regardless. . maybe they're trying to hurt her
reputation by using her own quotation as ammo. -- j
.

I see someone who attributes most of the woes of humankind to corporate success quoting Ayn Rand as a finale.

Note the '80% of our original forests gone' item. From Matt Ridley's site (January 2013): "The latest and most detailed satellite data, which is yet to be published but was summarized in an online lecture last July by Ranga Myneni of Boston University, confirms that the greening of the Earth has now been going on for 30 years. Between 1982 and 2011, 20.5% of the world's vegetated area got greener, while just 3% grew browner; the rest showed no change." This tendency is now being challenged by the return to biomass burning due to the environmentally-induced transition to expensive green energy, but it is still true that we have more forests not fewer.

M.Williams Journal of Historical Geography,
26, 1 (2000) 28–46

"...[It] has been demonstrated during the last century and a half in the developed world where the intensification of agriculture on the most productive land has led to the abandonment of marginal land and its recolonization by trees. In the USA, for example, abandonment began in the diffcult-to-farm New England highlands from 1840 onwards, and then spread south throughout the eastern seaboard states, and was particularly noticeable in the South after the 1920s.
Between 1910 and 1979 a net 60·7 million acres (24·5 million ha) were added to the
forest,..."

Of course, the statement made in the Anonymous video is technically correct, because the forests that are greening the Earth are not the 'original' forests - few of those are left. I found the video emotionally stirring, but jarringly inaccurate. I would like to see a video that well produced which had a message I agreed with and which merited an Ayn Rand quote at the end.

Jan

Well, even a blind dog finds a bone once in awhile.

OK
I forced myself to sit through that crap, without puking. It was so full of deviousness and outright lies that it was hard to stick with. The A.R. quote was totally out of context and could in no way be meant for the meaning it was squeezed into at the end of that very well produced bucket of glop. The silly bastards will probably blame the coming economic downturn on global warming.

I see someone selectively attempting to feature the distorted reality their values precipitates arising from a failure to check their premises. It necessarily and in many cases WILLFULLY, blinds them to the context within which actual reality manifests.

Brother, they asked for it!

Even econazis can quote Ayn Rand if they so desire.
That video opines that we should leave oil in the ground so Gaia won't freaking bleed to death.
Give me a break!
"Today Europe! Tomorrow the world!"
I just quoted Adolf Hitler as if to validate my reply.
Why? Because I so desired to tack that on.

It means that people without a consistent philosophical approach, who don't work hard to weed out all the contradictions in their premises, are doomed to be duped by every shallow, emotionalist conspiracy theory and piece of propaganda they are exposed to.

If their approach to computer science were as ignorant and superficial as their views on global politics, I'd be surprised if they could save a document in MS Word, much less hack anybody's computer.

Anonymous is assuming that the average Joe is pulling the strings, however, it's the government trying to shape behavior that is causing the problems we have. The government interferes with everything and needs to get out of the way, just ask John Galt.

Rand's quotes are often misused. The people behind this video simply have a very distorted view of the world and its causes and effects. They paint reality as something it is not, and then conveniently use the quote to make the broader point.
It's no different than conservatives quoting Rand despite having significant conflicts with her philosophy.

The statement that 51% of the budget today goes to the military is TOTALLY a lie. Cant speak to the other statrments, but when even one fallacious stmt is made it casts all the rest of the stmts into doubt.
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/fil...

I commented on someone who seemed upset about tax breaks for the 3 comma crowd earlier (hell, I want to be one of them), but now Anonymous is quoting Ayn Rand? It HAS happened, the world has turned upside down.

Next thing you know the uber rich and famous will become liberals and socialists... wait a minute... never mind...

"I see the highest standard of living in history"
I agree completely. When I hear people say modern civilization is on the verge of collapse, it sounds absurd to me. If there were something that destroyed modern civilization and what came next were closer to the norms for human history, it would be much less free and less prosperous.

" it is apparent that we have a horrible amount of injustice and wasted human potential in the world today."
This is true, but things are better than in most of human history. The level of justice and liberty we have today is not normal. These are amazingly good times. We can admit that and still be committed to improving things.

I see the highest standard of living in history, feeding a larger population than we thought possible with higher success than ever. I see education levels rising and violence decreasing.

I appreciate you starting to watch, at least. Thanks for sharing your reaction.

Well I do see many false premises in there. Can you say lies without doing the fact checking yourself? Honestly I haven't tried, but I think it is apparent that we have a horrible amount of injustice and wasted human potential in the world today.