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I Am Greta isn't about Climate Change
It's about the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
Cook, Jonathan http://dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/i-am-greta-isnt-about-climate-change/
Publisher: Dissident Voice
Date Written: 18/11/2020
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
For 90 minutes we live in Thunberg’s shoes, we see the world through her strange eyes. For 90 minutes we are allowed to live inside the head of someone so sane that we can briefly grasp – if we are open to her world – quite how insane each of us truly is. We see ourselves from the outside, through the vision of someone whose Asperger's has allowed her to "see through the static", as she too generously terms our delusions. She is the small, still centre of simple awareness buffeted in a sea of insanity.
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Watching Thunberg wander alone – unimpressed, often appalled – through the castles and palaces of world leaders, through the economic forums of the global technocratic elite, through the streets where she is acclaimed, the varied nature of our collective insanity comes ever more sharply into focus.
Four forms of insanity the adult world adopts in response to Thunberg, the child soothsayer, are on show. In its varied guises, this insanity derives from unexamined fear.
The first – and most predictable – is exemplified by the right, who angrily revile her for putting in jeopardy the ideological system of capitalism they revere as their new religion in a godless world. She is an apostate, provoking their curses and insults.
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