Dear Friends,
It seems to me, if an academic wants to get rich, and has no morals, all they need do is invent a “science,” that not only proves the rich and powerful deserve their riches and political power, but they need it for all of our benefits… and they need it all. That academic will have money thrown at them faster than they can push it in their pockets. Because the politically powerful, who also happen to be rich, love anyone who justifies their political power. That’s why socialist doctrines are so beloved. Communism, socialism and fascism rationalize unlimited power… it’s for our benefit. Not the despot’s. As anthropogenic climate change rationalizes unlimited power by the elite. To save the planet. So, if you’re an unethical scientist, and want riches, think of a way to rationalize unlimited power.
The elite are self serving. You don’t amass wealth and political power by being altruistic. You amass it by appearing altruistic while actually being egoistic. What better way to appear altruistic while actually being egoistic… then with a glittering hoax? Like climate change. The rich and powerful don’t want to have unlimited power, but they have to have it, to save the planet from you heating your home, driving to work, or eating meat. When done right the altruistic con gets people to push their rights, money and humanity into the hands of the swindler. Then join him in pushing the con. By appealing to our fear of disaster, and simultaneously our sense of moral superiority, the altruistic con can sucker in millions of patsies. Though the elite are already wealthy… it’s unlimited power they actually seek.
Ideas that justify unlimited political power, in the hands of as few people as possible, are beloved of the elite. Progressivism for example. The progressive philosophy, is that the individual is the problem, and it takes a powerful state to solve that problem. As in eugenics where some are deemed by experts to be unfit to reproduce. So the progressives exploited the power of the State to forcibly sterilize those individuals deemed a threat to the gene pool. At a time when such surgery was barely understood and many terrible side effects could be expected. Putting the very reproductive rights of the individual, into the hands of experts, and ultimately… the state. How much more unlimited can it get? Today the progressives have grown into the monopoly philosophy of the global elite.
Ideas that falsify the notion of unlimited power are detested by the elite so get zero funding. The free market is a system the elite love to hate. They go on and on how free association is a terrible thing. Ask Bernie Sanders on the patio of one of his mansions on the inland sea. Free enterprise insults elitists. With it’s wealth generation, improving standard of living, and worse of all… equality of opportunity. Falsifying centralized power… empirically. History is unambiguous on this matter. Progressives, fascists, socialists and communists have a failure rate of one hundred percent. As measured in standard of living, wealth generation and equality of opportunity. So don’t expect to see some ground breaking study, blasted in the MSM, falsifying climate change, or that free Enterprise beats communism.
The path is open to anyone, with sufficient credentials to appeal to authority can get rich… by rationalizing putting unlimited power in the hands of the politically powerful. It’s a steep hill to climb. With historic empirical example proving the opposite, but the climate zealots have done it. In religion, if a prophet is wrong even once, on an insignificant point, he or she is no longer considered a prophet. A climate scientist can be wrong in their predictions over and over however. Showing science is more tractable than religion. Which means, if you have the certifications to be taken seriously, no morals and out sized ambition, all you need do is come up with a con, to make it appear the elite deserve and need their wealth, privilege and power. Cha ching!!
Sincerely,
John Pepin
