The age of belief


A survey argues that atheism aka “no religion” is rising. That’s only because they didn’t offer categories of belief systems that are effectively religions. When these are accounted for the number of believers may have increased.

The behavioral clues are everywhere. Celibacy is on the rise. Not for traditionally Christian reasons, but for reasons of intersectionality. “The analysis found that since 2008, the % of men under 30 reporting no sex had nearly tripled to 28 %, compared with an 8 % increase reported by women in the same age bracket. It found that 18 % of women between the ages of 18 and 30 reported no sex in the past year.”

Cultlike behavior is everywhere, especially on campuses. Ritual diets, virtual signaling, zealotry, laws against blasphemy tricked out as measures against hate speech. There’s an obsession with ‘mindfulness’ and ‘centering’. Yet withal a kind of terrible anomie has descended over everything.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/from-moms-to-medical-doctors-burnout-is-everywhere-these-days/2019/03/29/1cea7d92-401d-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html

How many people, for example, belong to the church of climate change? We are not living in an irreligious age. On the contrary there have never been so many cults.

Why do these coincidences happen?

The Twitter account for the anti-abortion movie Unplanned was briefly suspended on Saturday, but has been restored to Twitter.

After several users screenshotted notices of the suspension on the service and tagged Twitter and its co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, the account returned.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/unplanned-movie-twitter-account-briefly-suspended-1198343?__twitter_impression=true

What climate scientists dont know

“As a decision-making aid in the construction of dykes and drainage channels the climate models are unsuitable. “Our computers do not even predict with certainty whether the glaciers in the Alps will increase or decrease,” explains Stevens.

The difficulties he and his fellow researchers face can be summed up in one word: clouds. The mountains of water vapor slowly moving across the sky are the bane of all climate researchers.”

And yet progressive politicians have already made the decision to start a trillion dollar Green New Deal.

https://judithcurry.com/2019/03/30/why-climate-predictions-are-so-difficult/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The problem of failing states

Countries, unlike companies, are defined by the International system as “too big to fail”. What foreign assistance tries to accomplish would be called a bailout. Unfortunately some countries fail anyway.

Venezuela is a dramatic example. It failed largely because of mismanagement. No amount of foreign aid will fix it. Not even intervention may work. Nobody wants to see a country fail. But countries die, even Rome. And Venezuela ain’t no Rome.

Europe Wants Cars To Have Speed Limiters and More by 2022

Does the state spell technology ‘control ‘?

“It seems that politicians believe driver training or road maintenance won’t improve anytime soon, so instead they want to limit your car’s engine power to make sure you don’t break the speed limit while robots determine whether you’re fit to drive in the first place. At least that’s the proposed plan in Europe starting in May, 2022.

Backed by Members of the European Parliament, the European Transport and Safety Council says its new mandatory systems “will reduce collisions by 30 percent and save 25,000 lives within 15 years of being introduced.” And so just days after Volvo announced it will introduce driver-facing cameras and limit all its cars to 112 mph, the EU followed up with its own Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) system.”

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