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  1. Jul 2023
    1. Paul Kingsnorth
      • quote -“If you can’t read or understand the ‘peer-reviewed science’ then you are open to being intimidated into fearful silence by those who can, or claim they can. And those people - drawn, as all green ‘thought leaders’ are, from the upper strata of society - will bring with them a worldview which treats the mass of humanity like so many cattle to be herded into the sustainable, zero-carbon pen.”

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        • The problem can be extrapolated into language itself
        • Any word is just an abstraction and oversimplifies a complex reality
        • if we generalize this argument, it leads to the general claim that
          • abstraction leads to harmful conclusions as well