Western culture is a mess and the side of common sense seems to be drowning under the well-funded forces of neo-socialism and Net Zero fascism.

Taxpayers are treated as slaves in the gulag, working themselves to death only to have their money ‘re-distributed’ by government entities into corporate interests.

Sometimes this is done through government green grants to billion-dollar renewable energy companies. Increasingly, compulsory super contributions, now at 11 per cent, are to blame, funnelling public money into the coffers of union-led funds who will soon have more public money than the four big banks combined – or $3.3 trillion.

This money is used to bankroll Net Zero investments, creating a green bubble that is making life miserable for the peasants and slaves of the state.

And so I ask, where are the charismatic and powerful voices of the opposition?

Where are the heroes of common sense?

Who is speaking for the people against this gangrenous political and corporate tyranny?

I weep for the loss of figures such as author, screenwriter, and filmmaker Michael Crichton, who passed away in 2008.

You may know him as the man behind Jurassic Park – a cautionary tale of human exploration into the godlike power of genetics. I wonder what he’d make of today’s transhumanist movement and the global push to reduce humanity to a barcode…

Crichton’s most important lesson, in my opinion at least, was that of fear. In particular, the language of fear coming from the mouths of politicians.

Ahead of his time, Crichton belled the cat on the Climate Change movement and its misuse of apocalyptic rhetoric to scare well-intentioned citizens into acts of self-harm and civilisational collapse.

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Crichton says it best in his State of Fear speech.

‘As some of you know, I spent the last several years exploring environmental issues – particularly global warming. I have been deeply disturbed by what I found, largely because the evidence for so many environmental issues is, from my point of view, shockingly flawed and unsubstantiated.

‘But more troubling to me is the degree to which the political process seems to have captured, and often corrupted, the integrity of the scientific research that is used to formulate policy and to inform policy decisions.’

This interview was given twenty years ago. Twenty.

He gives many examples of ridiculous fear-mongering.

In one, which he uses to highlight the exaggerated rhetoric used to stir fear, he says that ‘attempts to provoke fear typically employ a certain type of stereotypical and very intense language’.

His example is this piece of text:

We Must Deal With Climate Change Now!

We simply cannot afford to gamble … by ignoring it. We cannot risk inaction. Those scientists who say we are merely entering a period of climate instability are acting irresponsibly. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored.

And though it reads like your average Cop conference script, Crichton reveals that it is actually from 1978 and its author is panicking about Global Cooling.

His audience laughs.

‘Fear of a new ice age…’ Crichton mulls over the concept as the laughter dies down. ‘Is anyone here worried about a new ice age? Is anybody upset that we didn’t act now back then to stockpile food and all the other things we were warned that we had to do?’

Can you believe we are still having this conversation?

But if you want proof of Crichton’s thesis regarding the subversive nature of climate change politics, look no further than the message pinned to the bottom of all his YouTube videos, appearing under the heading of ‘Context’.

There is a helpful ‘correction’ from the United Nations that seeks to manipulate the viewer’s perception of the video content.

In a cynical appeal to authority, the message comes up under the heading of ‘Climate Action’ – which is a political, not a scientific position.

This note defines ‘Climate Change’ as a certainty, insisting that human activity is the main driver of climate change.

It goes on to assert as fact, not discussion, that we are responsible for ‘virtually all global heating over the last 200 years’ and cites the very same figures in that disputed IPCC document from 20 years ago.

When Crichton gave his famous lecture warning about the excessively alarmist and deliberately frightening language, we may look no further than the cartoons used by the UN.

They’ve even managed to add a Covid face mask to this one.

And of course, no apocalyptic death cult is complete without a final call to arms – I mean – a call for donations.

The climate cult is shaking the can at us, crying poor while trillions of dollars every year is taken from the taxpayer. Pay for your carbon sins, peasant, or the world will boil. This message appears on the bottom of videos that question the narrative in an Orwellian war against free and fair scientific discussion.

What would Michael Crichton say if he could see the mess we’re in?