Big Oil versus Big Snake Oil

At CiF, Julian Little is advocating rational thought about GM food science.

This will not please the Groan’s core readership of lefties and moonbats. They will coagulate to raise a terrible keening, distraught that the Temple of Doomwatch has been profaned by this lickspittle of Big Agro, the horrible offspring of the coupling of Big Oil with Big Pharma.

This capitalist trinity is in a fight to the finish with the Doomwatch religion whose missionary and fund-raising organisation is Big Snake Oil.

The earliest Doomwatch missionaries, the sandal-sporting 1968 Brigade, have all now been canonised by the High Priests, L Ron Al Gore and the terrifying Stern Doctor who brazenly corrupt public discourse by every possible means in the name of Big Snake Oil.

Big Snake Oil favours persuasion as practised by Beloved Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Uncle Joe Stalin and the psychologists of the Stasi who between them controlled hundreds of millions of adults by indoctrinating their children. They fed them frightening lies to turn them against their equally fearful parents. By controlling the minds of the young and the vulnerable you alter the behaviour of societies. You start small, with light switches and wheelie bins, comedy penguins and cuddly polar bears...

Where Stasi tactics would be counter-productive, Big Snake Oil uses the wolf-in-sheep's clothing tool kit perfected by American televangelists, a surprising number of whom are uneducated fuckwits who amass vast fortunes by selling snake oil to the even more stupid in a kind of spiritual protection racket. They often end up in jail. But then they lack the necessary friends in high places, for the most part.

'Wanna feel better about yourself by doing good? We can help you with that. Just sign here. Yes, there - in the corner of the cheque. Thank you. Right, now you see that guy over there? He's one of the bad guys. Just go over there and badmouth him. Trust me - he deserves it. And you'll feel a whole lot better. Believe me'

Big Snake Oil has no hesitation in harnessing the energies of fuckwits who are looking for the main chance to lead its regiments of useful idiots.

Whether smooth or brutal in its methods, Big Snake Oil can bank on the collaboration of its comrades in left-wing politics. Why would the Left not support Big Snake Oil? Apart from the warm comfort and sheer convenience of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', so reminiscent of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, they share a Foundational Myth, a sense of Mission and an Ultimate Objective.

The foundational myth is that they have The Truth. The names of uncounted madmen and evil organisations sharing this delusion fill volumes of the encyclopaedias.

Their common mission is to suppress freedom in diverse times and places. The names of dictators sharing this ambition across the centuries fill...

Their shared objective is Control. The names of megalomaniacs nursing this dream across the centuries fill...

Big Snake Oil's most successful strategy is the skewing of the public conversation. It persuades Left governments to publish its propaganda to the citizenry, above all children, convincing the majority that dissenters should be shunned.

Left governments support Big Snake Oil with all the means at their disposal. They employ the Stern Doctor who, like L Ron Gore, has a personal interest in the success of Big Snake Oil. Cheered on by their acolytes in the quangocracy, Left governments base policy on Big Snake Oil's 'reports' and advice.

Left governments support Big Snake Oil by using taxpayers' money to pervert 'the scientific consensus' through the provision of grants to cooperative scientists and denial of funds to and discrediting scientists who refuse to base their work on the false and selective data approved by Big Snake Oil's own 'scientists' - like L Ron Gore... who is not a scientist at all. This reminds one of Soviet attitudes to psychiatry.

The Left and its fellow-travellers in Big Snake Oil can only gain and retain control by controlling Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Agro which together are the very epitome of the wealth-creating, wealth-sharing capitalism which, alone of all mankind's activities, has done the most to raise the poor from their desperation and set them free.

Capitalism is a fancy word for the freedom of exchange which is the condition and outcome of the liberation and flourishing of humankind.

Big Snake Oil and the Left agree that capitalism must be stopped at all costs for it prevents their taking control.

Capitalism is embraced by free individuals all over the world:

Capitalism's GM seeds are enabling subsistence farmers to raise disease-free crops, liberating their families from fear of famine for the first time in history, making them independent of bullying-through-handout by totalitarian governments (usually socialists) and NGO quangocrats.

Capitalism's oil means mobility: the ability to live where you will, to travel the world and see how other societies organise themselves as opposed to accepting how your totalitarian government organises you - thereby enriching its nomenklatura, the people who tell you, in your dirt-scratching, starvation, which 'truths' they want you to believe.

Capitalism's medicines release people from the sickness, pain, premature death and bereavement to which the mediaevalist-millennialist preachers of Big Snake Oil and Socialism would condemn us.

With capitalism comes the freedom to feed your family, improve your health, create wealth, claim your freedom and defy the oppressor. With capitalism comes freedom of thought.

It is intolerable.

Socialism will give us the perfect society when Big Snake Oil's prophesies come to pass.

Meanwhile, slaughter your cow and chew any maize you can find, and huddle together for warmth in your grass hut. Oh - they lied about the hut. It will not exist because without the fertiliser produced by the cow there won't be any fucking grass, just forest which They will forbid you to chop down for firewood against the freezing of the planet in the next Ice Age (the Earth is cooling, by the way) but why bring facts into a good horror story?

Don't make the mistake of thinking Big Snake Oil and its friend Big Brother are talking about science, for fuck's sake.

This is is a cult. Like Scientology. A cult in which Big Snake Oil and Socialism march together. No wonder moonbats, Righteous and fuckwittery all worship at the same temple. They need each other for comfort and to swell the chant of 'Enemy of Truth! Enemy of the People!' at any who oppose them.

Like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Little Boots, they will all pass away. There are more of us, determined upon freedom, than there are of those who would control us