The gargantuan lie that is killing us
Adam McKay, the director of “Don’t Look Up”, on “The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate”, one of the “hulking distortions and misrepresentations watered and tended to by leaders, mass media, culture, and industry”, which are the most dangerous lies.
As Adam notes, “This particular sub-genus of grifts, half-truths and strategic omissions have led throughout modern history to wars, mass death, societal collapse, and the theft of humanity’s great treasures. ‘Manifest Destiny.’ ‘Aryan superiority.’ ‘The divine right of kings.’ ‘The domino theory.’ ‘Israel has a right to defend itself.’”
“However”, he adds, “there is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs.”
“It is”, he continues, “a lie told worldwide by hundreds of thousands of institutions, elected officials, many universities, legacy news, some large non-profits and eventually — as the deception entered mainstream culture — even by ourselves, to ourselves, every single moment of every day” — the lie that, “when it comes to climate change, we have more time.”
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