The Many Faces of Denial

The Many Faces of Denial



 By Paul Chefurka

Denial wears many faces. Whether it's average people who are too busy with their lives to take on board the more extreme reports of environmental degradation; bloggers and politicians who believe that it's all a hoax cooked up by evil scientists to get grant money for bogus studies; or, perhaps surprisingly, the green activists who believe that more political or technological change will improve or even fix the situation - these are common techniques we use to avoid confronting the horror of global collapse face-to-face.

We are all familiar with the face of climate change denial. The Koch brothers, James Inhofe, Anthony Watts and a host of bloggers and politicians work tirelessly to derail any efforts to address humanity's greatest existential crisis since the Toba super-volcano 75,000 years ago. They are a resilient species, their fact-resistance bolstered by inoculations of status and cash.

 But this form of denial is easy to spot. There is a more subtle form, one that is endemic among the white hats of the green movement. They are the ones who tirelessly work from the moral high ground - to change policies, to develop and promote green technology, to encourage sustainability. They resolutely refuse to countenance any thoughts of our predicament being inextricable. Tireless work, even in a lost cause, tends to keep one insulated from the deeper, darker realizations, and lets one keep fighting the good fight. Heroism has always been an intrinsic part of our story: "Quitters never win and winners never quit!"

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There is another word that comes to mind that may also be applied to our collective group-think 

The Bank of England - Begins Economic's Renaissance??

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

   

The Bank of England Lights A Fuse Under the Field of Economics  

"No fears folks,  we have been onto these guys for some time now" - First Financial Insights

 The High Priests of Dark Linguistic Arts and Evil

Since well beyond the conception of this site, we have been crusading against the clear and obvious shortcomings of  neoclassical economics and their High Priests - Economists. The eye-opener coming with the 2008 Meltdown Revealing  that there was a very serious undetected aliment at works.  Economists were largely blind-sided by these and subsequent events; that we foresaw over a year beforehand, despite all preceding assurances and declarations that they were self-professed - "Masters of the Universe".    

Except they missed one important point - forgetting to tell the universe. Why?

Typically, economists are people who do not endear themselves to the virtues of good sense, but rather they prefer the comforts of group-think, fairy tales and fabrications beyond the sanity of reason. Sure in these 

contexts they have demonstrated remarkable skills - slippery sales and wordmanship that win honours in The Snake Oil Hall of  Fame. For instance, try explain to an economist that the doctrine and dogma of infinite growth within a finite construct is not possible. Good  lock, because they have a crafty word repertoire used to prove how ideas alone can override all universal laws and constraints of physics and their related mathematics.

Anyway, here is what The Bank of England said, and you may compare their noted  highlights  to many of our preceding articles over the years, listed below. The similarities are apparent - but the most important point is that more and more people, groups and organizations are tuning in and waking up to the absurd abstractions that this so-called field of study or social science has promoted to the detriment of greater human interests, and particularly its longevity. Rather as we all now know - they served the dishonest and limited vested interests of a few self-concerned entities. Their masters. 

The Bank of England Highlights:

Discredited, just at first count, 1) the majority of economics textbooks, 

2) vast swaths of the entire field of economics, run as it is by economists educated by those same textbooks, 

3) most governments’ economic policies, designed by these economists, 

4) much of its own work, also designed by the same economists, 

5) Paul Krugman and 

6) the “committee” that hands Krugman and his ilk their Not-So-Nobel Prizes.

Indeed, the message the Bank’s people send is so devastating to economics as it is taught today that their document will most likely simply be ignored, even though that probably shouldn't really be possible with an official central bank report. 

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What we have also said:

ECONOMISTS: High Priests of Another Permian Extinction 

http://firstfinancialinsights.blogspot.ca/2014/03/economists-high-priests-of-another.html

Invisible Genocide; Fallacy of Economic Growth

http://firstfinancialinsights.blogspot.ca/2011/06/blog-post.html

The Wealth of Planets

http://firstfinancialinsights.blogspot.ca/2011/09/most-important-economic-blog-ever.html

WRONG AGAIN! real economics:USA industrial muscle 

http://pwa2100.blogspot.ca/2013/10/wrong-again-real-economics-usa.html

All Economists Are Wrong - Dead Wrong 

http://drkinesa.blogspot.ca/2012/12/all-economists-are-wrong-dead-wrong.html?spref=bl

As it was once said, "you can fool some of the people, some of the time... but not all of the people all of the time" The Bank is indeed getting closer to aligning economics with the constraints and limits of the finite context of our world, however there is still much more progress that needs to be made  - a conceptual progress that better aligns metrics and theories of economics with our species most critical and primary goal - "Longevity" 

With this we say,
Onwards...

First Financial Insights 
Toronto, ON

March 27 2014