False Balance: Between Stupidity and Intelligence

by Pier Marton | Oct 28, 2011 | Books, Care, Eco, Ideas, Media, Politics, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Teach

The media is caught in that “false balance” – whether about climate change or politics… and sanity is out of reach.
Fortunately some like Shawn Lawrence Otto point out the aberrations.
His book:

For more information around those “scientists” against anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming (AGW).
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. — Proverbs 11:1

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus