Liberal pieties in the 1970s, aimed at children — “We’re gonna turn it on; we’re gonna bring you the power!”
Liberal pieties in the 21st century, aimed at turning us all into children — “We’re gonna turn it off, we’re gonna ban your power!” (And light bulbs, gas, shopping bags, proper hygiene, etc.)
Canada’s Ezra Levant says nuts to all that, in the feel good video of the week, posted above.
It may all be academic; Scientific America inadvertently tells its readers that there may soon be a ceasefire in the Goreball Worming moral equivalent of war, though as Doug Powers writes:
These “deadlines” come and go, and those who push them remind me of Robin Williams’ old bit about Colonel Gaddafi’s warning: “This is the line of death: Cross it and die! — Alright, cross this line and die… Okay, cross this line and die…”
Besides, who knows if they’re lying, as Scientific American sorta kinda admitted was OK when it came to being a warm-mongering advocate?
(Cross-posted at Ed Driscoll.com; thumbnail on Tatler homepage by Shuttertstock.com.)
Cool ad. I did turn on all my lights for “Earth Hour” a couple of years ago.
Oh, and it’s Scientific American with an “n”, though. It used to be a great magazine, but in recent years it has gone full-bore into green propaganda. I’m not sure whether the change was gradual or sudden.
It’s been around since the 19th century. About 20 years ago I came into possession of a nearly complete collection of 1950s issues. I was working in a recycling facility at the time (long story) and someone dropped off shopping bags full of them. Also nearly mint condition National Geographics from the same era. I damn near had a heart attack when I saw them, and immediately loaded them into my car.
The ads in those Scientific Americans were awesome. They were for American companies, large and small, that actually made things. Early computer manufacturers, chemical companies, metal refiners, machine shops, and so on. They were some of the most intelligent advertisements I’ve ever seen. They had product specifications and discussed how the products were made. You could actually learn things from those ads.
Those companies are practically all gone now. It was a different era, and a different America.
There was a time — maybe in the 50s, early 60s — when a good percentage of what was produced in this country was produced in Brooklyn. No more.
Just a thought but didn’t the Green Movement in Iran do something similar during Ahmadinnerjacket’s speeches on television in 2009? Just as the broadcast started they turned on every appliance in the city to overload the circuits causing power failures.