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Ennui: an Emotional State You’ve Experienced but Didn’t Know the Name for – A Learning Mind (learning-mind.com)
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Global temperature anomalies don’t need to be re-calculated over and over again. Do it right the first time, double and triple check, and then just add on to the dataset. Constant adjustments to surface temperature datasets, particularly NASA GISS and HadCRUT are very suspicious. But if they don’t continually select random anomaly baselines to show their alleged “Global Warming” and actually use an absolute temperature, then their entire scam will fall apart. Personally, I would like to see some real accountability.
When this $2T effort fails to affect mauna loa CO2 – is there anybody I can punch in the nose for that?
Under the best, most honorable, conditions the combining of temperature data is very subjective. But the current efforts are biased and/or incompetent and use software and processes that are high school level work at best. BOM is insane, HadCRUT sloppy. Around 15 years ago, Climate Audit had a very long thread about this subject. GISS temps were being readjusted with every version change. If one looked at a 2005 GISS variance and looked at it again in 2020, they’re not the same. Some have said it’s because of baseline changes, but that’s not true. Baseline shifts only shift the graph up or down along the y-axis, not change individual data points cooler prior to 1945, and adjust them up post-1980.
It’s the new way to do science. Choose an outcome, then manipulate data to support it. Adding in water temps also allows them to create whatever story they want. Historical data in that regard is even worse than air temps. True skepticism is finding answers, not making speculations Data.GISS: GISTEMP HISTORY (nasa.gov) … Dr. Gavin Schmidt refused to comment, but instead relied on silly emojis when Tom Nelson asked. Do what Environment Canada and Catherine McKenna – did and delete 100 years of actual recorded weather data (1850-1950) They’re just “cookin’ the books” and “massaging” the data. Massages are irrevocably good for data. It loosens them up!!! In favor of their computer generated data.
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How to Tell Whether You’ve Got Angst, Ennui, or Weltschmerz
BY ARIKA OKRENT
English has many words for the feelings that can arise when a good, hard look at the state of the world seems to reveal only negatives. Hopelessness, despair, depression, discouragement, melancholy, sorrow, worry, disconsolation, distress, anxiety …there are so many that it would hardly seem necessary to borrow any more from other languages. But English never hesitates to borrow words that would lose certain subtleties in translation, and angst, ennui, and Weltschmerz have made their way into English by offering a little something extra. Have you got a case of one of these imported maladies? Here’s a little guide to help you diagnose.
Angst is the word for fear in German, Dutch, and Danish. It comes from the same Indo-European root (meaning tight, constricted, painful) that gave us anguish, anxiety, and anger. In the mid 19th century it became associated with a specific kind of existential dread through the work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. He talked about a type of anxiety that arises in response to nothing in particular, or the sense of nothingness itself. It’s not exactly fear, and not the same as worry, but a simple fact of the human condition, a feeling that disrupts peace and contentment for no definable reason. The word was adopted into English after Freud used it as a term for generalized anxiety. Now it carries shades of philosophical brooding mixed with a dash of psychoanalytic, clinical turmoil. While anxiety and angst are often interchangeable, anxiety foregrounds a feeling of suffering (also present in angst), while angst foregrounds dissatisfaction, a complaint about the way the world is. Are you dissatisfied and worried in an introspective, overthinking German way?
You’ve got angst.
Ennui is the French word for boredom. The English word “annoy” comes from an early, 13th century borrowing of the word, but it was borrowed again during the height of 18th century European romanticism, when it stood for a particular, fashionable kind of boredom brought on by weariness with the world. Young people at that time, feeling that the promises of the French Revolution had gone unfulfilled, took on an attitude of lethargic disappointment, a preoccupation with the fundamental emptiness of existence. Nothing mattered, so nothing roused the passions. By the middle of the 19th century, ennui became associated with the alienation of industrialization and modern life. Artists and poets suffered from it, and soon a claim to ennui was a mark of spiritual depth and sensitivity. It implied feelings of superiority and self-regard, the idea being that only bourgeois people too deluded or stupid to see the basic futility of any action could be happy. Now, in English, though it is defined as “a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction,” ennui also has connotations of self-indulgent posturing and European decadence.
Are you tired, so tired of everything about the world and the way it is?
Do you proclaim this, with a long, slow sigh, to everyone around you?
You’ve got ennui.
Weltschmerz, German for “world pain,” was also coined during the Romantic Era and is in many ways the German version of ennui. It describes a world weariness felt from a perceived mismatch between the ideal image of how the world should be with how it really is. In German philosophy it was distinguished from pessimism, the idea that there is more bad than good in the world, because while pessimism was the logical conclusion of cool, rational philosophical pondering, weltschmerz was an emotional response. Though weltschmerz and ennui are pretty close synonyms, ennui foregrounds the listlessness brought on by world weariness (it can also be a term for more simple boredom), and weltschmerz foregrounds the pain or sadness. There is perhaps a greater sense of yearning in weltschmerz (part of the pain is that the sufferer really wants the world to be otherwise). Also, as an English word, weltschmerz is not as common as ennui, so there are fewer connotations about the type of person that comes down with it. It’s very German sound (that “schm”!) makes it seem more serious and grim than ennui.Do you have sadness in your heart for the world that can never be in sensible shoes?
You’ve got weltschmerz.
When did the clock start ticking so loudly?
The older I get the more I understand that it’s OK to live a life others don’t understand. -Unknown
‘Oh what a beautiful mornin’ Oh what a beautiful day!And I’ve got a beautiful feelin’ Everything’s goin’ my way!
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GREAT RESET IS CORPORATE COMMUNISM, AND IT’S COMING TO AMERICA
THE GREAT RESET IS CORPORATE COMMUNISM | THE GREAT RESET 2021.
The Great Reset Explained: Corporate Communism (2020electioncenter.com)
Obama Persuades Republicans to Take Vaccine by Urging Them Not To | The New Yorker
Joe Biden’s -announced Cabinet picks for Labor and Commerce — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, respectively — share the common denominator of being tight and cozy with the unions. And that makes perfect sense when you consider the corporate-run communism that’s coming to America once Democrats take over Capitol Hill.
Here’s the playbook, here’s what to expect in 2021.
The coronavirus has handed the far left crowd a golden ticket for government takeover — for government imposed crackdowns of individual freedoms and for government imposed restrictions against free market activities. Businesses have been shut; business owners have been left reeling; workers at these businesses have been forced to stay home and wait for stimulus dollars to save them from, yes, in some cases, starvation. Stimulus is another way of saying income redistribution; it’s taking taxpayer dollars and giving to those in need.
That’s not to say these businesses haven’t deserved the money. That’s not to say these hard-working business owners and employees haven’t needed the money. But either way you slice it, stimulus is still a taking from Peter to pay Paul. Anyhow — back to the bigger theme: the corporate communism that’s coming to America. Within the context of dealing with the coronavirus, there have been a couple of interesting phrases that have been bandied about the media; namely, the “great reset” and “build back better.”
They’re not meaningless.
They’re not simple marketing catchalls, devoid of any deeper significance. No. They’re political road maps. Just as “America First” and “Make America Great Again” were the phrases that lit the policy paths of President Donald Trump’s administration, so, too, the “build back better” and “great reset” phrases. Biden, on his own campaign website, makes that clear. “Joe Biden’s Plan to ‘Build Back Better’ for American Workers,” one JoeBiden.com web page stated.
“Build Back Better: Joe Biden’s Jobs and Economic Recovery Plan for Working Families,” another JoeBiden.com web page stated.
So what does that mean?
Build back better is a World Economic Forum plan to “reinvent capitalism” so that companies are more focused on the greater good, not profits, according to the WEF’s own statements. How to accomplish that? By the “great reset.” Again, that’s according to the WEF’s own words.
“Now is the time for a ‘great reset’ of capitalism,” the WEF wrote in June.
“A true recovery from COVID-19 will not be about putting things back together the way they were: we need to ‘build back better,’ to ‘reset,’ if we are to address the deep systemic vulnerabilities the pandemic has exposed,” the WEF wrote in July. “To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset Initiative,” the WEF wrote in September. Now for the communist party. This is where the actionable changes occur.
This is where the talk turns to walk.
In December, the WEF launched a new initiative called the “Davos Manifesto.” It posed the question, “What kind of capitalism do we want?” And it answered by laying out three possibilities — “shareholder capitalism,” “state capitalism,” and “stakeholder capitalism.” In short, shareholder is true capitalism; it’s the kind where companies are in it to make money, where corporations are driven by profit and loss statements. It’s the kind that’s chugged America’s economy to the top of the world, for decades running.
State-run capitalism is not really capitalism at all because it places the government in charge of directing the economy. It’s the kind of “capitalism” that’s “risen to prominence in many emerging markets, not least China,” WEF wrote. Stakeholder capitalism is the emerging beast. “[It] positions private corporations as trustees of society, and is clearly the best response to today’s social and environmental challenges,” WEF wrote. It’s the kind of capitalism that says corporations shouldn’t be concerned simply with making a buck, but also serving as a “social organism” to society. Companies, in other words, should be motivated more by do-goodism than money.
It’s really the way the left gets its hands on Wall Street to drive forth policies, politics and agendas that don’t pass the smell test of Congress and the people. The Senate won’t ratify a U.N. climate change treaty? No worries; politicians will just pressure private businesses to “voluntarily” adopt clean energy standards and sustainable development practices instead. The end game is essentially the same. Congress won’t pass so-called common sense gun controls? No worries; new “great reset” standards will ensure private companies restrict firearms’ sales, and banks restrict funds to companies selling firearms, and businesses boot all gun-carriers from their businesses. Second Amendment, whoosh. Gone. The possibilities for control are endless.
“We should seize this moment to ensure that stakeholder capitalism remains the new dominant model,” WEF wrote. “[Our] new ‘Davos Manifesto’ … states that companies should pay their fair share of taxes, show zero tolerance for corruption, uphold human rights throughout their global supply chains and advocate for a competitive level playing field. … Companies will need new metrics. For starters, a new measure of ‘shared value creation’ should include ‘environmental, social and governance’ (ESG) goals a complement to standard financial metrics.”
Banking and business bigwigs have already swung into gear to fine-tune these new “shared value” metrics. The U.S. Business Roundtable just announced it was embracing this “great reset” form of capitalism. Where it leads is here: Corporations will become the world’s policy guides. Corporate elites will take over where governments now serve. “Clearly, companies should still seek to … maintain an entrepreneurial mindset,” WEF wrote. “But they should also work with other stakeholders to improve the state of the world … In fact, this latter proviso should be their ultimate purpose.”
Those with the most money will rule.
America’s free market will fall to the dictates of the world’s wealthiest. If you want an example of how this new model is playing right now, look no further than Twitter. CEO Jack Dorsey, out of his own imaginations of what serves as proper speech versus improper speech, has permanently banned Trump’s key attorney, Lin Wood. Why? He’s incited violence, Twitter’s talking heads say. First Amendment, whoosh. Gone. That’s a small, very small, glimpse into how corporations driven by social consciences serve: they become the arbiters of proper and acceptable human behaviors. They become the dictators of governance.
Mask mandates, anyone?
If the government can’t get it done on the constitutional route, the government can exert pressures on the private market to get the same done by a different route. No mask, no entry has become the normal shop store sign these days. Soon, no vaccine, no entry. Soon, no papers — no buying or selling. With the coming oligarchy — the coming top-down global “build back better” and “great reset” campaigns — citizens won’t be able to travel, to work, to go to school, to shop or to sell without first meeting the standards set by corporate heads and their WEF partners. It’s a takeover of free markets and an imposition of behavioral, political and economic standards on entire countries, by unelected, unaccountable, often even unseen and unknown billionaire elites. And it’s coming to America.
It’s communism dressed as social justice capitalism.
Biden’s announced nominations of union-friendly Cabinet members plays
right into this “great reset” moment in time. Who else better equipped to cripple America’s free market from within than union members?
If seeing the battle is step one to winning the battle, then it’s crucial to acknowledge: Build back better means something. The great reset is real.
And Americans must fight the communism these soft-sounding phrases are actually selling. The WEF, remember, is composed of private companies, and therefore largely sheltered from accountability. Or ballot box replacement.
If WEF’s “Great Reset Initiative” reaches fruition, even elections — and with them, all those arguments over problematic election integrity — won’t matter. America, like all the countries of the world, will be run and governed and regulated by a crowd of corporate elitists and their billionaire friends.
The Constitution will be just a piece of paper.
Freedom will be only what they grant.
First Appeared – IN – The Washington Times.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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