Riots? Climate change? A nihil-all draw - The Drum Opinion - It's not rising sea levels we have to worry about. It's a rising tide of nihilism, thrill seeking and moral ambiguity. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Maybe it's true! Maybe climate change really is to blame.
Got kids? Watched as they've been indoctrinated - sorry, I mean educated - about global warming over the last decade? Then you'll know what I mean. They come home from school moodily depressed about the future of our planet and, of course, what that means for their own lives. What's the point? We're all doomed! Why study? Why bother getting an education? It's futile. Sea levels are rising. Temperatures are soaring. Soon we'll all be living in a polluted hell-hole constantly battling the equivalent of the Queensland floods or the Victorian bushfires year upon year. And you want me to waste what precious time I have left studying accountancy?
It's called nihilism, and it's even more terrifying to witness in your teenage children than hickeys, drunkenness, truancy, insolence, idleness, bad marks or bullying. Nihilism, or the conviction that life on Earth is totally pointless, saps the young of their energy, their ambition, and their will to strive, struggle and triumph.
...Nihilism is a pernicious, debilitating and self-fulfilling doctrine. In the UK, as here, the "authorities" have been preaching it relentlessly for the last decade. It comes at a price. Al Gore, I hope you watched the riots in a London as avidly as our kids were all forced to watch your breathless prophesies of global gloom, doom and destruction.
It's not rising sea levels we have to worry about. It's a rising tide of nihilism, thrill seeking and moral ambiguity.
And the January sales.
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As past Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said about public education "It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery".
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