Guest post by Thomas Fuller
Well, with the calming passage of 24 hours, let’s take another look at the 10:10 video showing the splatterfest of gore as skeptics play the more volatile roles from the worst portions of the movie ‘Scanners.’
It’s still disgusting.
I spent four years in the Navy and have seen a lot. The film did not upset me physically or emotionally. My reaction was mental (Cue Michael Tobis: “See? Fuller’s going mental…”)
What disgusts me first is its target. The video is meant for the young. Young people get blown up by a calm and engaged teacher in the first scene, and music and sports and film figures appealing to the young are both victims and perpetrators throughout.
Our reaction is irrelevant. They are not talking to us. They are talking to our children.
What are they saying? That it’s okay to ostracize, bully and dismiss those who don’t agree that climate change is uber alles (Oops! Godwin alert, Godwin alert) and that skeptics or the children of skeptics are fair game for… whatever.
As there is no real attempt at humour in the video, there’s no point in pretending it’s a parody. It’s instructional. It’s not even aimed at helping children work towards reducing emissions. It’s about helping children take aim at those who do not.
This is worse than Orwellian, although Eric Blair would certainly understand the meaning behind this message. And I don’t want to (and internet traditions would forbid me in any case) link this to the propaganda tactics of World War II. So somewhere in between those two, there is a special place in hell reserved for those whose intent it is to legitimize the cruelty of children towards each other based on what has evidently become a religious belief. And I hope that none of the film’s makers reaches that special place ahead of their allotted timespan–but I hope they get there.
Joe Romm and Bill McKibben have already announced they are ‘Shocked! Shocked!’ that gambling is going on in their casino and that their perpetual campaign of invective and calumny has produced people who actually believe them and hate skeptics. So I guess it’s no harm, no foul. Just as it was not their fault when a disturbed environmentalist took hostages at the Discover Channel headquarters, just as when the WWF made an ad showing planes flying into New York skyscrapers, just as when a Greenpeace blogger told skeptics the world over that ‘we know where you live.’ And as Anthony Watts knows full well, they also know where you work. But none of this is the fault of those who whip up the frenzy and the furor of those stupid enough to believe their hyperbole, enough to do something vicious, cruel, stupid or illegal.
So I guess I can’t blame hysterics like Romm and McKibben, who spend their days babbling about hell and high water and related mystical miseries, for any of the troubles we’ve seen. Except for the kids who will be downloading that video tonight. Both William Golding (Lord of the Flies) and J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan) knew full well that children need no help in being cruel. But this gives them license and legitimacy. And for that, Joe and Bill, I do hold you responsible. You sent the message first–it took years for 10:10 to make it explicit.
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Darrell at 9:21
I remember 7/7/07.
I also remember feeling a jolt when looking at the date.
On the morning of 911, for a brief while no one knew what was happening.
A “terrible accident in New York”.
Then, no.
Then DC, where I live.
Then Pennsylvania.
Then eerie quiet skies for days, except for the occasional fighter jet.
One of the smaller sinking feelings during that horrible morning was the association of the date, which is our emergency phone number.
Many people in New York were on the phone with 911 as the second plane hit.
Choosing the date was part of the whole sickness, to remind us forever.
9-11.
7/7/07.
I hope someone keeps an eye on the freaks on 10:10:10.
Just an unquiet thought.
Lucy Skywalker says:
October 2, 2010 at 3:59 pm
‘….. Science never forgets the fullness of our humanity.’
Bravo!
Oh, this is great:
http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/editors-view-green-message-comes-under-pressure-1836.aspx
lo and behold:
“There has been a deliberate move by many who are trying to get action on climate change to move away from the doom and gloom that is so often associated with the issue, but this episode shows just how difficult it is to get the green message right – even when you have some of the best talent behind it. ”
Yeah, doom and gloom doesn’t sell, so let’s try blowing up dissenters, that’s much better. Ok ok, i’m convinced now, CO2 is killing the planet, where do i register to get my green shirt?
@Foxgoose
October 2, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Foxgoose, you gave an email address for Howard Stringer a way above this post. This, I’m afraid, doesn’t work. The current address for him, as I’ve just discovered and sent my mail to (without it bouncing back) , is:
howard_stringer@sonyusa.com
Oh the versions are coming thick & fast now!
One for the Jihadists?
Well, this came from Britain, and as usual at least one Brit had an answer.
The V for Vendetta clip…
“Genocide is not a Left or. Right thing.”
Perhaps not, but you might want to ask yourself why the supposedly compassionate, caring, and utopian left keeps revisiting murder and genocide, not only in their fantasies but in practice, again and again, and why the supposedly compassionate, caring, and utopian left idolizes cold-blooded murderers like Mao and Che Guevara and why one left-wing revolution after another has contributed to the murder of more than 100 million people in the 20th Century alone. Compare the goals and methods of Maximilien Robespierre with the goals and suggested methods of today’s far left. This line of thinking is nothing new and it always ends in a Reign of Terror, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Killing Fields, Holodomor, gulag, etc. Always.
Curtis said last night: “I was worried that the environment is an issue that can seem worthy and we will all just drift into disaster. So I thought it was worth trying to write something unexpected. But when you try to be funny on a serious subject, it’s obviously risky. I hope people who don’t like the little film will still think about the big issue and try to do something about it.”
That is the money quote from the Guardian update.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/02/1010-richard-curtis-climate-change
From that quote, Curtis doesn’t look like an intentional saboteur. So I guess it’s a case of an outcome diverging from intentions. Talk about an all time record Freudian slip….
How did this thing get approved? If not sabotage, that leaves groupthink gone berserk.
Other (press) contacts to write to in Sony UK:
Sony UK
Lucie Speciale
e-mail: Lucie.speciale@eu.sony.com
Aimee Lake
e-mail: Aimee.lake@eu.sony.com
Jessica Simpson
e-mail: Jessica.simpson@eu.sony.com
New parody up at the Guardian, Delingpole’s latest thread:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100056810/splattergate-oh-well-we-live-and-learn/
Anyone still upset that people are too stupid to appreciate the humor, is THIS one funny?
Letter of complaint to go in The Sun, either tomorrow or the next. Yeah, The Sun, but it is still one of the biggest selling daily papers.
OPEN ‘DEAR JOHN’ LETTER to old Eugenie, Franny, Daniel, Lizzie and the whole 10:10 team
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My dearest Eugenie, Franny, Daniel, Lizzie and the whole 10:10 team,
Hi, hey I think in every difficult situation there is an opportunity to go “onward and upward”. So, here’s the deal. Fire that Curtis dude real quick and call Walt Disney Productions to do another video. Walt Disney has successful experience in wholesome family movies that are thematic in the blowing up a kid genre. Just GOOGLE ‘Honey, I Blew Up the Kid!’ for contact info.
And, oh, how is that whole groupthink thing working out for you? Drop me a line.
That is it, have a nice apocalyptic day. : )
Love,
John
PS – If you are looking for new sponsors because your previous ones were figuratively ‘blown away’, I hear that Pachy’s got some unreported income he has got to ditch under-the-table to someone really quick.
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Heh, heh, heh
As I typed the above I was playing “Bad to the Bone” by George Thorogood & the Destroyers
John
The 10:10 website’s partners page was still up a second ago: http://www.1010global.org/uk/partners
However, just in case it is removed, here is a list of the partners and their websites (culled from the HTML for that page pulled with wget). Be sure to let them all know how appalling their involvement is with these nut cases is and ask them how they feel to be supporting an organization that depicts the blowing up of children and defends it as humour.
Eaga is the UK's largest supplier of heating and renewable energy an
d is at the forefront of the low-carbon economy
http://www.eaga.com/
O2 is the UK's leading provider of mobile phones, broadband and SIMs. O2 is partnering with 10:10 as part of its Think Big initiative and will be selling 10:10 Tags in its shops across the UK
http://www.o2.co.uk/
Sony is one of the world’s leading digital entertainment
brands, with household names such as VAIO™, Cyber-Shot™, BRAVIA™ and Walkman®. Sony is sponsoring 10:10 to support its staff’s efforts to go even further on carbon reduction
http://www.sony.co.uk/eco
The Ashden Trust
http://www.ashdentrust.org.uk
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/
Wates Foundation
http://www.watesfoundation.org.uk/
The GD Charitable Trust
No URL provided
Jam Today
No URL provided
The Funding Network
http://www.thefundingnetwork.org.uk/
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/10-10
National Magazine Company
http://www.natmags.co.uk/
ActionAid
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/102084/1010_schools.html
Campaign for greener healthcare
http://www.greenerhealthcare.org/1010-health
Carbon Trust
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk
Degrees Cooler
http://www.nus.org.uk/Campaigns/Green-Zone-/Degrees-Cooler/
Energy Saving Trust
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/
The Great British Refurb
http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk/
The broadband channel for environmental films
http://www.green.tv/
Olswang LLP
http://www.olswang.com
People and Planet
http://peopleandplanet.org/
Public Interest Research Centre
http://www.pirc.info
Pure360 Email Marketing Solutions
http://www.pure360.com
The 10:10 website’s partners page was still up a second ago: http://www.1010global.org/uk/partners
Be sure to let them all know how appalling their involvement with these nut cases is and ask them how they feel to be supporting an organization that depicts the blowing up of children and defends it as humour.
(I have saved the HTML for the page and extracted all the URLs but am having problems posting it.)
@ur momisugly Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
October 2, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Wow! Not sure where you are going with your response to me. I suggest you work on your reading comprehension, or perhaps you confused my post with someone else because pretty much what you wrote reflects absolutely nothing that I wrote!
I was merely pointing out that WUWT (and others) are sensationalizing this 10:10 video and somehow trying to give the impression that it is representative of all “greenies” or whatever your term is.
Benjamin P. says:
October 3, 2010 at 10:35 am
“I was merely pointing out that WUWT (and others) are sensationalizing this 10:10 video […]”
Oh, yeah, sensationalized… after all, they just blew up a few children, nothing big… I was living under the impression that all you Greenshirts want is publicity by any means, you know, climbing up power plant chimneys, getting in the way of fishermen, anything to get in the news. So you should be more than happy.
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Benjamin P.,
The “No Pressure” video is self-sensationalizing. Of course in a free society anything like it is going to go uber viral, and rightly so. The fault for that is 10:10 itself.
Do you have a problem with open dialog in a free society? I suspect you do.
Anthony, thanks for your open venue. We are indebted.
John
If you think this is bad, read this. http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/947.
I hadn’t actually watched the video because my young children were around but I just had the opportunity and it’s even worse than I imagined. What it does is show the promoters for the lying dirtbags that they really are. Throughout, they claim, “No pressure. Your choice,” even though they have no intention of letting people choose differently from what they demand. For them, it’s all about coercion and force and, if that doesn’t work, terror and murder. Maximilien Robespierre would be proud of them.
Michael Ronayne says: October 2, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Here is the Wikipedia page on Franny Armstrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Armstrong which fails to mention that Franny finds it goodsport to blowup anyone who disagries with her. Browse the websites listed below and enjoy some of Franny’s cretive videography. Leni Riefenstahl could only admire Franny Armstrong talents.
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Well Michael, I have read the Wiki report as well as the review of The Age of the Stupid – see below.
You can all make up your minds about this little timebomb of a person.
Franny Armstrong
Maker of The Age of the Stupid: Here’s what some reviewers made of it (and her)
Environmental activist George Monbiot said that the film’s “message, never stated but constantly emerging, is that we all have our self-justifying myths. We tell ourselves a story of our lives in which we almost always appear as the heroes. These myths prevent us from engaging with climate change.” Time Out London’s film editor, Dave Calhoun, said, “Armstrong’s prognosis is apocalyptic. The Times called the film “the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional complacency shrouding the issue”, saying, “The power of this shameless campaigning film is that it gives dates and deadlines. It explores options and ideas. It names culprits…”The New York Times described the film as a “much sterner and more alarming polemic than An Inconvenient Truth”. The review noted the “gallows humor” throughout the film although the review was critical of the crude animated sequences.[ The Sydney Morning Herald described the film as “a wake-up call with an elegiac tone — not quite hectoring but pressing. This is about human nature, greed and personal responsibility. It aims to scare and galvanize — and it’s pretty good at both.
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You better believe that she really does want to blow up anyone who disagrees with her.
She is a nutter!!
Doug
Now this is parody with a big P of taking the P**s out of …
Richard Sharpe,
Thanks for putting together the list – it won’t be for nothing.
The murder fantasies of enviro-whackos are not surprising when you consider the following quotes from some of the environmentalist movement’s founders, leaders and high-profile supporters:
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
– Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, first president of the World Wildlife Fund – as reported by Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), August, 1988
“We have no problem in principle with the humans reducing their numbers by killing one another. It’s an excellent way of making the humans extinct.”
– Geophilus, “spokesorganism” of the Gaia Liberation Front, as quoted by Les U. Knight of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (These Exit Times, 1992)
“I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.”
– Paul Watson, a founder of ‘Greenpeace,’ as quoted in Access to Energy, 1982 (1989?)
“One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.”
– Psychologist Barbara Marx Hubbard – member and futurist/strategist of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank
“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing….This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.”
– Economist editorial, December 28, 1988
“In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
– Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, as quoted in UNESCO Courier, November 1991
“Even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”
– Julian Huxley, first director general of UNESCO (1946-1948)
“Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planet. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth….Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.”
– David Graber, ecologist, National Park Service, in a 1989 LA Times book review
“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”
– John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
“If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS.”
– Earth First! Newsletter
“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.”
– David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
– David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.”
– David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
[Cannibalism is a] “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
– Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
– Ted Turner, media mogul, as quoted in Audubon, November-December 1991
“You think Hiroshima was bad, let me tell you, mister, Hiroshima wasn’t bad enough!”
– Faye Dunaway as the voice of “Mother Earth/Gaia” in the 1991 WTBS series “Voice of the Planet”
Sources:
http://secure.freestateproject.org/node/21771
http://www.solopassion.com/node/1312
http://pushback.com/issues/environment/ecofreak-quotes/
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2007/12/human-hatred.html
http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com/2007/11/population-reduction-quotes.html
http://american_almanac.tripod.com/tinny.htm
http://www.off-road.com/trails-events/voice/genocide-threats-from-green-terrorists-16221.html
http://pc.blogspot.com/2006/07/quote-extinction-of-human-species-may.html
Richard Sharpe:
Hope this helps a bit.
http://notrickszone.com/2010/10/03/protest-sony-and-the-1010-partners-no-pressure-to-do-so/
Mocking begins
My sincere (not) condolences to old Eugenie, Franny, Daniel, Lizzie and the whole 10:10 team over the early and unexpected death of your precious and beloved “No Pressure” video.
I know you all got to be really mad at that bad bad Curtis dude that screwed up so much that it caused the death of your video . . . it is so tragic . . . you invested so much of your love with him and trusted him . . . . and he let down.
Mocking ends
John