Go back 100 years ago and the popular thing was eugenics. Scientific “consensus†supported it. Everyone KNEW it was right. Lots of legislation was based on it. Now it’s known as a crackpot theory. I recently received a 1971 copy of Paul Ehrlich’s book “Population Bomb.†Not a single prediction has come true. But it was the book my high school biology teacher required us to read in 1971 so we would see the “Truth†of what was to come. Based on the track record of the alarmists out there I’d bet 30 years from now the global warming crowd will be hiding their past predictions and trying to scare us with something totally different. Whatever happened to the “ozone hole†and “acid rain?†Conveniently dropped down the memory hole now that they turned out not to be true!
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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