{"id":3462,"date":"2010-09-10T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2010-09-10T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T03:28:10","slug":"of-paranoid-plots-and-ponzi-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3462","title":{"rendered":"Of Paranoid Plots and Ponzi Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/worldcafefacilitation/">http://masterfacilitator.com/worldcafefacilitation/</a> We all know rational, intelligent people that honestly believe the most absurd things. I know someone who thinks she was abducted by aliens. On a related note, I also know someone who swears he saw a UFO in Miami Beach. And he was with his mother, who saw it too. I know another person who insists that 9\/11 was an inside job, sanctioned by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/atm/">https://worklivelaos.com/atm/</a> I never know what to say to people who utter such things. So the best thing I can think to say about <a href=\"http:\/\/noconsensus.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/08\/obamas-roomate\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Jeff Id post<\/a> (of a separate article) is that he sincerely believes it. Jeff really believes that Obama is deliberately trying to destroy capitalism so that a Marxist\/socialist system can eventually be installed in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-cleaners/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-cleaners/</a> Actually, the best thing that could be said about this comes via a <a href=\"http:\/\/noconsensus.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/08\/obamas-roomate\/#comment-35944\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> left at Jeff&#8217;s site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/therapists/">https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/therapists/</a> This sounds like right-wing pot-head paranoia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/emotional-intelligence/">Buy Ambien Online Overnight</a> And just for kicks, here&#8217;s a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/09\/10\/andrew-sullivan-e-d-kain-blunder-of-historic-proportions\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> by Joe Romm that blames Obama for the ruination of civilization, or something like that, for not tackling climate legislation before the health care bill. What&#8217;s delicious about this post, though, is Romm&#8217;s particular citation from his favorite op-ed columnist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/available-activities/"></a> As Tom Friedman wrote last year in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/08\/opinion\/08friedman.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">The Inflection is Near?<\/a>&#8221; [Emphasis is by Romm]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/home/"></a> <strong> <a href="https://ramedicare.com/frequently-asked-questions/">https://ramedicare.com/frequently-asked-questions/</a> &#8220;We created a way of raising standards of living that we can&#8217;t possibly pass on to our children,&#8221;\u009d said Joe Romm, a physicist and climate expert who writes the indispensable blog Climateprogress.org. <\/strong>We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks &#8220;\u201d water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land &#8220;\u201d and not by generating renewable flows.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/local-recommendations/">https://blackhillsballoons.com/local-recommendations/</a> &#8220;You can get this burst of wealth that we have created from this rapacious behavior,&#8221;\u009d added Romm. &#8220;But <strong> <a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1454"></a> it has to collapse, unless adults stand up and say, &#8220;\u02dcThis is a Ponzi scheme. We have not generated real wealth, and we are destroying a livable climate &#8220;\u00a6&#8217; <\/strong>Real wealth is something you can pass on in a way that others can enjoy.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/dentures/">https://dentalprovidence.com/dentures/</a> I suppose this is Joe&#8217;s way of letting his readers know that what he says&#8217;s here about our rapacious behavior is extra noteworthy because Thomas Friedman quotes it.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/">https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/</a> Anyway, Joe&#8217;s Ponzi scheme musings is the stuff of Jeff Id&#8217;s paranoid nightmares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/business-plan/"></a> We all know rational, intelligent people that honestly believe the most absurd things. I know someone who thinks she was abducted by aliens. On a related note, I also know someone who swears he saw a UFO in Miami Beach. And he was with his mother, who saw it too. I know another person who&#8230;<span>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3462\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2760],"tags":[835,1185,1488],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-ideology","tag-climate-change","tag-ideology","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}