-"I’m not dressed for Church!"

The title statement came from an anecdote lived by Julian Simon -the optimistic economist- and collected by Jeremy Carl in the first paragraph of one of his book reviews on the #Claremont_Institute* website in winter 2015/2016; read it here:

Sometime later, precisely, Carl's notes were taken by Robert L. Bradley Jr to write his article published in the American Institute of Economic Research | AIER. Mr Bradley gave to the previous article another scent according to the new current estate-of-the-art in the matter (you can see it here: Inside The Church of Climate, click on the picture below)**.

The thesis is as simple as plain vanilla flavour describing the issue of climate change and environmentalism extreme attitudes and prayed on how have they evolved along the time: an issue of concern in moving from fair faith to daring superstition. Once having that for something given, it would be of some intellectual reward to revisit and ponder how accurate was Robert Greene in setting up an easy way of understanding the drivers by which achieving dominion and institutional empowerment following the inspiration of Law 27 of his book 'The 48 Laws of Power'***. The literal of that Law and its summary expresses the commandment’s core in this way:

• Law 27: Create a cult-like following. Play on what people want to see/hear.
• Summary: Play on people’s need to believe -Do you remind the catchphrase in The X-Files TV series: 'I want to Believe'? So, you gotcha!-(comment from me). People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform, and ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power. [from the book summary].

Governance

And, now, like in the TV program in charge of committing forensic deconstruction on a wide range of products or daily appliances, the Big Q is: “How to Do It?” Well, Greene's book is explicit and gives you a guideline of five steps for such a purpose.?

• · Five steps to build a …sect?!:

1. - Step: Make it vague; keep it simple. To create a sect in the first place you have to attract attention. This should not be done through actions, which are too clear and understandable, but through words, ... they must include two elements: on the one hand, the promise of something great and with the capacity to transform things, and on the other a complete vagueness.
2. - Step: Emphasise the visual and sensual over the intellectual. Once people have started to gather around someone, there will be two dangers: boredom and scepticism. it is necessary to amuse the bored and get rid of the cynics. The best way to do this is through theatre or other tricks of this kind.
3. - Step: Borrow the forms of organised religion to structure the group. Sectarian followers are increasing: it is time to organise them. You have to find a way to uplift and comfort them. Rituals must be created for the followers, organised in a hierarchy, arranged in degrees of sanctity, and given names and titles that have religious resonances; You have to ask for sacrifices
4. - Step: Hide sources of income. The group has grown and has been structured in the ecclesial style. The coffers are beginning to fill with the money of the followers (or few public funds, I add); however, never give the appearance of craving money and the power it produces. At this time you have to hide the origin of your income.
5. - Step: Establish a 'We v. They' dynamic. The group is now large and continues to grow.

Thus, here you have, readers, a DIY guideline for almost any social group to perform according to the most successful herd drivers. The main aims, Mission and Vision to set, now, are all on your own and ethics. My honest wish: hope you keep the path on the sunny side when put it into practice. To get into details, you probably would have better read the book; almost in this Chapter.

The genuine challenge

According to current affairs, and returning to the point up in this post, we are probably beyond step five in the western world, in a closer location to the maturity point in this new religion. It would wealthily advise dissidents to pay a ticket in a pilgrims’ vessel on a private journey to freedom land. Or, otherwise, take the same option of that man who initially listened and understood Moses’ Master’s advising message about the change in the waters coming, but later on, this lonely man decided to drink the new one spirit. This latter story was one of the Tales of The Dervishes that Idries Shah collected in his homonym book of 1967. The short tale, the entire fable, is this:

“WHEN THE WATERS WERE CHANGED

Once upon a time Khird, the Teacher of Moses, call upon mankind with warming. At a certain date, he said, all the water in the world which had not been specially hoarded, would disappear. It would then be renewed, with different water, which would drive men mad.

Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water and went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character.

On the appointed date the streams stopped running. The wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to its retreat and drank his preserved water.

When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet, they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realised that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding.

At first, he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living. Behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.”

The loneliness of living.

Solitude and loneliness are not completely interchangeable words. Someone would be pessimistic about the ending of all this if they were a dissident by nature from this way of thinking; loneliness is sadness due to one having no friends or company. Well, let me give a last approach to the theme: what was noted by Mr Greene in his book ends in step five, and not goes beyond. That step marks the initial successful point in a new cult-like, but was not the non-returning point, only the tip of a possible successful pace from such an initial new sign of the times. Once in this stage, is when extremists feel themselves be called for enhancing their chances and control what is and how they express the Doxa and others' behaviour above their will. And no red line has been yer stroke in the sand of the sea shore by the good fellows. Some analysis to approach the different aspects of negative environmentalists would be taken from this article published in the old 2010 year by The New Atlantis, and titled: "Environmentalism as Religion", by Joel Garreau with an interesting view embracing Christian roots and the topics related to the ecologic mentality. Well, better you read it and get your conclusion together with the above. Note: remind the dates: 2010, Al Gore still had something to say but was overwhelmed -and overrated as a laical saint- by the revolt stream, as it happened in the French Revolution with Danton, the Cordelier's leader, opposite to Robespierre and Marat, and the Jacobins' bloc.

Finally, I just remind you this: 'possible' is an occurrence, and 'probable' is its measurement; today, the measure for the occasion is still short and has its random score of suffering from a black swan in the shape of a grey rhino riding to the western world right now. I bet for an implosion process due to its unbalanced foundations.

Similarly, and only two years before today, Joakim Book claimed since the AIER for cancelling environmentalism and giving ammo from three books to those interested in supporting that stake:

Three books mean a lot of readings, then, and a lot of queries to ask. But going further to this point now was not the topic here.?So, now the floor is for the readers.

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Notes:

*- You should revise the ‘about us’ tag in its Website Menu, and know a little more about its Mission and Vision; it deserves reading, especially, the ‘Who We Are’ section, first sentence, and third verb. Interesting.

**- This last article was been translated into Spanish recently and published on the #Disidentia website, under the title "Dentro de la Iglesia del Clima", here: https://disidentia.com/dentro-de-la-iglesia-del-clima (Good for doing it!).

***- There is a duty to mention my preferences for Joost Elffer’s Production; above others, the canonical. Edition of Viking Penguin Books, 1998.

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