I find the term 'denier' just a tad oblique: what these people deny, most fundamentally,is the idea of any limits on their freedom, aka humanity's potential, all bow down.
(This is the latest variation of the age old war over the limits, if any, to the physical manifestations of humanity's rational and imaginative mental powers.)
I prefer a variety of terms, some of them my neologisms, others are commonplace and readily understood.
For example, Libertarians versus Limiters (rather than Deniers versus Doomers).
Libertarians are fully comfortable with - only comfortable with - the familiar 'old shoe' of 19th Century Science of Newton and Dalton and Darwin and Euclid that is still the only science being taught in most 21st century schools.
By contrast, Limiters being those who ignore their high school teachers and who accept the latest findings of the science that there are definite biological and material limits (restraints upon) to humanity's potential.
Or Cartesians (dualists who see Man above Nature) versus Commensalists (Humanity entangled within Nature.)
Why not Pie-in-the-Sky Utopians/Idealists versus Down-to-Earth Realists?
Lab scientists versus Field scientists, aka Natural Philosophy versus Natural History?
Plato versus Aristotle.
Small "l" liberals versus small "c" conservatives.
And finally - and obviously - Cartesian Sky Gods versus down-to-earth Earthlings.
While it is an age old battle, this century is different.
Because it is no longer simply a case of one philosopher debating another philosopher.
Rather it is the fact that one side is, at last, fully able to try out its theory upon the world and the other side is busy crying out " Please God - dont ! - your experiment will go deadly wrong and destroy the only lab - the only world - that Humanity has."
I will report this battle fully, fairly, but always from the general side of the commensalists, limiters and earthlings, making no bones that I am hoping ,above all else, to alter the course of that battle in my side's favour....
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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