Guest essay by Eric Worrall
I guess this was inevitable.
2019 PERSON OF THE YEAR GRETA THUNBERG
BY CHARLOTTE ALTER, SUYIN HAYNES AND JUSTIN WORLANDPHOTOGRAPHS BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA FOR TIME
Greta Thunberg sits in silence in the cabin of the boat that will take her across the Atlantic Ocean. Inside, there’s a cow skull hanging on the wall, a faded globe, a child’s yellow raincoat. Outside, it’s a tempest: rain pelts the boat, ice coats the decks, and the sea batters the vessel that will take this slight girl, her father and a few companions from Virginia to Portugal. For a moment, it’s as if Thunberg were the eye of a hurricane, a pool of resolve at the center of swirling chaos. In here, she speaks quietly. Out there, the entire natural world seems to amplify her small voice, screaming along with her.
“We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow,” she says, tugging on the sleeve of her blue sweatshirt. “That is all we are saying.”
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Thunberg is 16 but looks 12. She usually wears her light brown hair pulled into two braids, parted in the middle. She has Asperger’s syndrome, which means she doesn’t operate on the same emotional register as many of the people she meets. She dislikes crowds; ignores small talk; and speaks in direct, uncomplicated sentences. She cannot be flattered or distracted. She is not impressed by other people’s celebrity, nor does she seem to have interest in her own growing fame. But these very qualities have helped make her a global sensation. Where others smile to cut the tension, Thunberg is withering. Where others speak the language of hope, Thunberg repeats the unassailable science: Oceans will rise. Cities will flood. Millions of people will suffer.
“I want you to panic,” she told the annual convention of CEOs and world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. “I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.”
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Read more: https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/
She’s been lied to so much, she probably really does feel that fear.
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Can you imagine a young white male, in the same role ?
It wouldn’t play.
It’s a sign of total extinction of adult reasoning in mainstream media.
She deserves every bit of wrath and ridicule that comes her way.
Greta is the result of 10 years of public school brainwashing…
Students are no longer taught how to think, but rather what to think, and Greta is a tragic example of educational child abuse….
From one perspective, perhaps it’s appropriate Greta Thunberg should be Time’s Person-of-the Year, because she so accurately optimizes the abandonment of reality, logic and reason which, unfortunately, reflects this time in history..
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It is my understanding that she has been home schooled, rather than attending public schools.
Greta has (or will) become exceedingly wealthy on the back of all this (large numbers have been bandied around), as will her contemptible handlers. She will never have to work, ever. She will be unlikely to complete any formal education and we can thus expect her ignorance to remain that of an uninformed adolescent.
Welcome to the Idiocracy
As soon as she has outlived her usefulness, she will disappear. A poster at another blog pointed to Cindy Sheehan and Sandra Fluke as examples.
I feel bad for Greta since she has issues and is being exploited abusively. I’m not sure how she’ll react when she sees the light.
It’s probably like the fear I feel towards the end of each month, the mortgage is coming due and the SSA check is about gone. If some magnanimous soul would drop $1200 into my PP account “THERESONEBORNEVERYSECOND” each month, I would not have to fear again. Thanks for you consideration
As was said earlier, Greta is known to be on the autism spectrum (Asperger’s?). That does not speak to her intellect but it does speak to her social ability to recognize when she is being exploited. These kids generally have no social skills, trouble reading the motives of other people. Many people just cannot relate. Social skills are considered to be innate, until you run into someone without them. Which reminds me of another truth. Hearing loss is the only disability where people get angry at you because of it. A little understanding when someone can’t hear very well would go a long way.
She is a minor, this group should probably do the graceful thing and ignore her.
This does bring up however what I call “living your life for somebody else’s cause”. Our universities make a practice of producing millions of graduates who will go on to do just this. I am a Boomer. A great many of my peers did this. I know of no one who has been happy living their life this way. Sooner or later they realize they forgot to live their own life. Maybe they didn’t get married, or didn’t have kids, or didn’t take that responsible job, or didn’t save for the future, or didn’t study something that would result in paid employment. One day they wake up and realize the world has left them behind and all they have to show for it is at best an inconsequential piece of legislation.
I feel bad for a teenager who is missing out on her normal teenage years. Unfortunately she may someday as well. Can I cite evidence? Child TV stars. Enough said.
Seriously comrades she is more to ad mired than claimed …
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/comrade-of-the-year-t21075.html
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2019, Greta Thunberg. Time Magazine Man of the Year 1938, Adolph Hitler. Beware the history you associate with.
Thunberg gets a pro active activist
https://www.rt.com/news/476032-carola-rackete-civil-disobedience/