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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We should allow increased wealth and education to move us inexorably towards voluntary population stabilisation and on the basis of current figures that should happen within the next 50 years or so. Every human society with sufficient wealth and education has been shown to reduce birthrates to replacement level or less.
In the meantime technological advances will steadily reduce the per capita demand for earth resouces to a level that is more sustainable.
Then once population growth has ceased it will begin a long slow decline on a purely voluntary basis whilst resource use efficiency increases still further and in 150 years or so a long term accommodation with nature will have been achieved without the scary scenarios promulgated by seekers of power.
We have to restrain those pessimists. They are wrong and throughout history have always been wrong. They are the threat, not population, resource depletion or pollution. Left to our own free choices we can do what is necessary without them. The whole of history shows that we can overcome the prognostications of aggressive doomsayers.
They may want large numbers of us to die. All we need is for them to get out of the way. We have the moral advantage in every way and we must now express it and move forward without them.
A new movement is needed.
Perhaps ‘ The People’s Planetary Symbiosis’ ?
I don’t know why this is shocking to anyone. The video shows the logical conclusion of totalitarian thought. It is consistent with history. If the AGW/leftist mindset is allowed to gain much more control of positions of power, we have been fairly warned of what to expect.
h/t Jo Nova
The parodies begin!
Every time I think I’ve seen it all, I get proven wrong, but…….as vile as this 10:10 presentation was, it served a purpose: at long last, the mask has finally slipped, and the true aims of the AGW campaign and all its fellow travellers have been revealed. It was THEIR ad. What can they say? Satire? Please. Even on this thread, that’s been done to death. A joke gone wrong and we’re all so sorry? I’ve read their apology(?) It reminds you of those TV courtroom dramas where the sleazy lawyer asks an outrageous question, then quickly says: “withdrawn” to the other lawyer’s “Objection!”
The entire purpose of their ultimate agenda is power and control. I wish I could take credit for this, but on another website a commenter observed that the 10:10 logo looks suspiciously like handcuffs.
Have not read all of the comments so this may be a repeat of someone else but all I could think of after watching this is that we have gone to war against this type of oppression. The only thing they could have done to get their sick point across better was get the classmates of the “deniers” to tattoo denier across the deniers forehead, shave their head and put into a concentration camp before killing them. This is not satire this is plain sick
The comments on the 10:10 website pull no punches:
http://www.1010global.org/uk/2010/10/sorry
Most commercial websites that I’ve visited in the past provide a ‘contact’ link that lets one e-mail them direct from the website or alternately an e-mail address. I’ve checked the sites of a number of the sponsors listed and no such link or address is evident. I’m assuming they have removed them in anticipation of the onslaught.
Well. I’m English & didn’t find this propaganda piece in the least amusing!
I was brought up on the Goons, Round the Horne, The navy lark, (That was anti-establishment satire,) and the Pythons.
The Pythons were very funny & employed a ‘scattergun’ approach. They satirised everything. Anyone who says they were anti-conservative is either blind or has a selective memory. They satirised the conservatives, yes, they also satirised labour & who can forget their satirical piece on re-distribution of wealth, Dennis Moore, which covered a whole episode.
That was something they often did in fact, a multi-part skit, sort of a featured target.
Don’t tell me I don’t understand humour, particularly British humour, I do.
On another thread, I noted the NZ/Oz rivalry with the ‘sheep poll’. It sort of reminded me of an experience in a Scottish bar many years ago. I was with a southerner & remarked that Scots were just Geordies with their brains kicked in, He nearly cr*pped himself! I asked the barman over, knowing he had heard every word. I asked if he was offended, “no,” he said, “we say the same about you!” I knew that already obviously.
DaveE.
P Gosselin says:
October 3, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I posted that on one of the earlier threads & referred to it as an out-take rather than a parody. 😉
DaveE.
Patrick Kelly says on October 3, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I checked five randomly, and came up with these addresses or websites:
ashdentrust@sfct.org.uk
contact@pure360.com
http://www.olswang.com/contact.asp
info@thefundingnetwork.org.uk
http://www.natmags.co.uk./index.php/v1/Contacts_%26_maps
Note that National Magazines is actually part of Hearst Corp, it would seem, so you could also register your displeasure with Hearst. You will actually have to write a letter to National Magazines, since they only offer a postal address as far as I could see. The rest provided an email address or a form to fill in, as with Olswang LLP.
Stephen Wilde says:
October 3, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I’ve often said Stephen. The best contraceptive known to mankind is prosperity!
DaveE.
Dave says: October 3, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Have not read all of the comments so this may be a repeat of someone else but all I could think of after watching this is that we have gone to war against this type of oppression. The only thing they could have done to get their sick point across better was get the classmates of the “deniers” to tattoo denier across the deniers forehead, shave their head and put into a concentration camp before killing them. This is not satire this is plain sick
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Dave, how right you are.
Having read her bio on Wiki it is plain to see that Franny Armstrong is a very ‘driven’ woman who is well along the path to ‘save the world’ according to her own lights and will stop at nothing. This last little ‘episode’ is a demonstration of her desperation.
In my view she needs help.
As for the fools here who try to describe this ‘crap’ as British humour – well there are always those who will delude themselves or find excuses for anyone. Reminds me of the old lady who couldn’t say anything bad about anyone, even the devil and described him as being ‘very industrious’.
Doug
DougD’s got the goods on these creeps.
On viewing the first couple of minutes of this video, I assumed it was satire in poor taste intended to show climate warming alarmists as psychopathic nutters. But since I now know it to have been made by climate warming alarmists, I firmly believe that it should be shown in every classroom to provide warning that many climate warming alarmists really are psychopathic nutters who lust for totalitartian power.
Bin Laden goes green and Green goes bin Laden.
Behind the scenes 1010.
http://youtubes.5aa5.com/viewyDHhgF1mIvA&feature=youtube_gdata_player.html
Is it me, or does the logo for this wretched 10:10 not look like a set of handcuffs??
Very appropriate ;- )
It’s interesting that the ‘deniers’ are portrayed as a small minority. The so-called humour enables the integration of yet another lie. Or so they hoped.
How dare they use one of my favourite Radiohead tracks!
On the plus side,I got to see a bit of Gillian Anderson side boob.
Late watching this. Pure propaganda in the worst way. I don’t think it isn’t directed at children. It is directed at anyone who doesn’t believe like they do. As for Jeremy of W.A., go get some counceling dude. Seriously, now.
What is really humorous about all this is not the video, which I find nihilistic. The hilarious part is the 10:10 ideological environmentalist’s ineptness in handling the aftermath of their initial misjudgment. They can’t handle even their own environmental endeavor.
John
I think most of the schools signed up are in the UK…
My childs headteacher, spoke to 10 10 this morning and has stopped all involvement with 10 10
The head was completely unaware of this video, and the 10 10 mindset..
May I suggest, anyone with children, sent the link to the guardian article, to their schools headteacher/governors.
And ask them, please watch this video, read the co-founders words….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/se…
Should you ever be involved with this…
Look up your school.
http://www.1010global.org/uk/education/schools
I am personally going to email ALL my local schools with this link, and advice them what my schools headteacher has done..
I hope that anyone else might do the same..
in there area..
your choice, no pressure !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is just downright disgusting. They should feel horrible that this movie was even made, let alone recruiting young boys and girls to play the parts. Complete Sickness..
An apology from Kyocera Ltd…..
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Quote:
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email, just received. I totally understand your reaction to this video, which was very similar to my own.
Kyocera Mita UK has supported the 10:10 campaign because we share its ambition to reduce carbon emissions. However, we don’t support the “No Pressure” video and are dismayed by the suggestion that we might have been knowing partners in its production; in fact, we had no knowledge of its content until it appeared online. We consider that 10:10 made a grave error of judgement in its choice of creative approach, which is totally at odds with the inclusive and positive attitude that has been the hallmark of its other activities. We understand that 10:10 has acknowledged its mistake, withdrawn the video and issued an apology.
I assure you that we are taking this issue extremely seriously. A formal statement will be issued in due course.
Kind regards
Tracey
Tracey Rawling Church
Director of Brand and Reputation
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KYOCERA MITA (UK) Limited
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Barry Woods:
Can you repost that link, it is broken.