Sunday, August 01, 2010
Sleeping through no grease
News item:
When you actually know what to expect, when you know a bit of history and a bit of science, the media-generated panics can't disturb you.
Equipped with memory and history, Polistra and Happystar were able to sleep through the panic. Now they're able to sleep through the (much quieter!) "news" that just maybe the panic wasn't worth panicking about.
How many thousands of times do we have to endure this whipsawing? Overpopulation, global cooling, endangered species, acid rain, ozone holes, swine flu, global warming, Y2K, oil spills, bird flu, swine flu again, financial meltdown, oil spills again, probably global cooling again.
Always an apocalypse, always a lie. When each old apocalypse quietly disappears behind the new one, we find that lots of new money has moved into George Soros's bank accounts and lots of new power has accrued to governments. ¶ 7:50 AM
News item:
The oil in the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing much more quickly than expected. Nature is taking its course, aided by a naval-size flotilla of skimming boats and some powerful chemical dispersants.
The sea's warm surface and oil-munching bacteria have dissipated the slick to such an extent that a planeload of journalists had to fly for an hour before their pilot could find a patch of oil. His relief, according to one reporter on board, was comparable to the anxious captain of a tourist boat spotting a distant pod of dolphins.
It turns out that the playful sea mammals, like other creatures, suffered much less damage than was forecast. A grand total of three dead dolphins covered in oil have been recovered by wildlife rescue teams. The spill has so far killed less than one per cent of the number of birds claimed by the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989.
When you actually know what to expect, when you know a bit of history and a bit of science, the media-generated panics can't disturb you.
Equipped with memory and history, Polistra and Happystar were able to sleep through the panic. Now they're able to sleep through the (much quieter!) "news" that just maybe the panic wasn't worth panicking about.
How many thousands of times do we have to endure this whipsawing? Overpopulation, global cooling, endangered species, acid rain, ozone holes, swine flu, global warming, Y2K, oil spills, bird flu, swine flu again, financial meltdown, oil spills again, probably global cooling again.
Always an apocalypse, always a lie. When each old apocalypse quietly disappears behind the new one, we find that lots of new money has moved into George Soros's bank accounts and lots of new power has accrued to governments. ¶ 7:50 AM
