The Resistance

A worker at the Vermont ski resort J.D. Vance took his family to was critical online. She expressed her opinion, consequences be damned. The Resistance is alive and well. “If a 25-year-old can risk her job to — quite politely — speak truth to power, the rest of us can figure out some things to do as well,” Mr. Bill McKibben said. By "truth to power" he means posting. Like I'm doing! But in all his years as a "climate leader" McKibben has not figured out "things to do". Other than vote harder and beg your elected representative to do the right thing. The reasonable thing. "I went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of abuse..." Jagger /Richards Driving through town I saw some people carrying signs so I followed them to the intersection fo Hwy 93 and Main street where folks were gathering to promte "science". (Exile on Main Street?) With each honk the energized liberals cheered and waved their signs harder. Who can be against against Science, they laughed? look at all that science hath brought! Reason and rationality, empirical evidence and facts. We are speaking truth to power! Resist! As a cynical old radical I found this all terribly sad. If science and knowledge can't sway them, what about morality and justice and responsibility? “By turning its back on international climate financing, the U.S. is failing its moral obligation as a historic polluter, abandoning the global community and shirking its share of our collective responsibility,” said Namrata Chowdhary, the chief of public engagement for 350.org, a climate advocacy group. I hate to keep picking on 350, but at some point you need to understand that profit cares nothing about morality and the authority of science has been radically diminished. It was science which shut down the economy during the pandemic. It is science that is telling us not to utilize the liquid gold lying beneath our feet. Of course science also killed God and promised humans mastery over Nature and that hasn;t worked out so great either. The point here is that we need to trust our own eyes. When we see two actors playing President in the Oval office, that is precisely what it is. When they say "this is going to be great television" that is what they mean. And it also means we have to accept the reality that we are all actors playing Citizen in the same absurd drama. Yes I know perfectly well ( it is theatre) but nonetheless I will keep voting for change. Yes I know perfectly well that liberal capitalist "democracy" produces a constant assault on my dignity and constant anxiety but nonetheless...