The Power of Crisis

This is what ClimateGate is all about:

But, the larger danger of Hegelian thought is that one begins to think that there is something “magical” in the crisis. It soon becomes the most critical piece in our desire to achieve the “synthesis”. We will even begin to create a crisis if it doesn’t exist, or make you think it exists, even if it really doesn’t. Or make you think it is a “crisis” when it really is just a natural down slope of the curve.

Communism was famous for stirring up the revolution to achieve its goals. (And interestingly, the ‘revolutionaries’ who came to power as part of the ’synthesis’ weren’t anxious for anyone to soon decide that another ‘antithesis’ should arise! So, they continued to wear the revolutionary garb for years and years and kept icons of the ‘revolution’ alive in the minds of the people as if it had just happened or was still ongoing. This prevented anyone from thinking it was time for another ‘crisis’!)

Now whether or not there are seeds of Hegel in the thinking of modern man, I find it interesting that we seem to have bought the same notion that any real change requires a “crisis”.

Some have bought this so deeply that they will sometimes “doctor” the evidence to make the “crisis” appear more dire or imminent.

After all, without the “crisis” we have no movement and without the movement we don’t achieve our goals.

We certainly have had a boatload of them in recent history.

Marx and Lenin used Hegelian thought to motivate the communist revolution in Russia, which included the slaughter of one-third of the population (“change”).  The global warming movement, as a global crisis, may be far more reaching.