If truth is your enemy, you’ve already lost. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Orwell wrote about telling the truth being a revolutionary act – in a time of universal deceit. But what led to the time of universal deceit? Such as the one we’re living in right now?
James Kunstler pinned the tail on the totalitarian donkey the other day. He wrote that “a society hostile to truth can’t possibly remain civilized, because it will also be hostile to reality.”
And that explains everything. Makes sense of the otherwise insensible.
How else to explain the hostility toward the telling of truth about – let’s start here – the electric vehicles that the government, via its regulatory regime, is effectively forcing the car industry to manufacture and thus leaving car buyers fewer and fewer new car options that are not “electrified”?
The truth is there would be few, if any, electric vehicles available for sale were it not for the regulatory regime that advantages them and disadvantages their functionally superior competition. The latter being functionally superior – as well as significantly less expensive. Thus accounting for the need to disadvantage them.
These are inarguable truths, just the same as the truth that – if people weren’t paid to buy EVs via subsidies – even fewer would probably buy them than the few who have.
But when you give voice to these truths, the response is not acknowledgement of them but hostility toward those who voice them.
They are accused of all manner of things, including Ludditism and “denying” that the “climate” is “changing” – and thus it is necessary to give up cars with engines that weigh 3,200 pounds that get 35 MPG and cost $30k for cars that cost $50k that weigh 5,000 pounds, about 1,000 pounds of the latter being accounted for by inefficient energy storage devices (the battery packs) that require orders of magnitude more natural resources to be extracted from the Earth putatively being “saved.” As well as massive amounts of electricity to keep them charged – most of which is produced via the burning of hydrocarbon fuels of one kind or another.
Purge those deplorable kulak untermenschen scum who hold up the egalitarian workers utopia just by existing.
The hive borg collective is the ultimate version of humanity and I only obey is the virtuous signal.
Shirkers who hold up the Benetton rainbow shopper’s bazaar shangri-la will be dealt with harshly, comrade.
Forward!
Si se puede!