We live in a free society with unprecedented access for everyone to information essential to the critical mind, and yet mass deception and consequential madness and hysteria are rampant - in fact, they define the profile of our political system.
It is the lack of interest to exercise their critical faculties that distinguish today's Mitläufer (literally: fellow-runner, i.e. the opportunistically compliant person) from the Mitläufer of the 1930s, the latter having been in an incomparably more disadvantaged position to probe the news and other forms of propaganda.
Even science has been captured by it to an extent that has turned it into a politically correct force ready to buttress any charlatanry.
One of the world’s biggest green-energy public-policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere. [...]
Germans have paid about $130 billion for a climate-change policy that has no impact on global warming. They have subsidized Chinese jobs and other European countries’ reliance on dirty energy sources. And they have needlessly burdened their economy. As even many German officials would probably attest, governments elsewhere cannot afford to repeat the same mistake.
Read the entire piece.
See also my post The Sun Queen of Germany and The Epistemic Consequences of Totalitarian Democracy.
