Reading and climate--what could they possibly have in common?! I’ll tell you: lies, lies and more lies.
Hold onto your hat. The roller coaster is starting to descend. It seems to me that more millions of lies have been told about these two subjects than about any others. We’re talking about world-class lies, the kind that Hitler would be proud to call his own.
During the past year I’ve been fascinated by parallels between fake reading theory (usually called Look-Say, Whole Word or Sight Words) and fake climate theory (usually referred to as Global Warming). My suspicion grew stronger each month that everything said in both areas was a lie. You had this vast apparatus, in both areas, of professors, researchers, universities, publishing companies, major media, and the education establishment, all promoting a vast litany of lies, year after year, decade after decade. Arguably, not one word of truth was spoken--by the people in charge--about either subject. Truth dropped into a black hole.
We have to ask, what kind of people would want to tell so many lies? And why?
First, as a practical matter, I need to explain these two issues quickly and simply.
Reading: the people pushing Whole Word have done a brilliant job of enveloping all their lies inside a cocoon of sophistries. Even smart people become bogged down in discussing tiny baffling details, when the truth is huge and simple: Whole Word is a con from start to finish. Memorizing word-shapes is not a feasible way for children to learn to read. C-a-t/Cat--that’s an appropriate way. I believe Whole Word was one of the big weapons in a “progressive” campaign to level the population by dumbing-down children. It works.
Meanwhile, on the climate front, it seems that the entire old-left shifted into the environmental movement and used their vast leverage, funds, and connections, to enforce their view of global warming. The goal, as before, was to gain more political control, in this case by frightening people with dire predictions. It’s hard to have a helpful discussion of this issue when the Big Lie is so successfully pushed. But now with the release of the infamous e-mails, the conspiracy is starting to fall apart. So I can write this little article.
My sense is that Whole Word, starting in 1931, was an exact precursor of all the techniques that would be used a second time around in the promotion of dishonest climate theory.
People like to say, “Oh, well, Hitler did that stuff long ago. But you can’t tell Big Lies now and get away with it, the media are so pervasive. Etc. etc.”
Can’t get away with it?? The Whole Word gang kept their con in play from 1931 to NOW. That’s almost 80 years (resulting in 50,000,000 functional illiterates in the US). You’re talking about a “party line” carried out and enforced by what I take to be a remarkable display of party discipline. Similarly, the global warming lie has been in place since about 1980. Almost 30 years. They would probably have gotten away with it for 80 years, but modern technology is tough on keeping secrets. Live by the e-mail; die by the e-mail
My sense of all this is that the best way to understand the global warming hoax is to study the reading hoax. And vice versa. Each saga beautifully illustrates all the twists and turns of the other. The most striking common feature is the condescending dismissal of all opposing ideas.
In 1931, the Education Establishment simply dictated: trash those phonics books; only Look-Say is acceptable. Similarly, in 1989, with hardly any data, the debate was said to be settled and the US must go to Kyoto and surrender control over its economy. Sweeping and totalitarian decisions. Communist dictatorships behave like this.
In both areas, the extremity of the lies, their endless abundance and persistence, show how far our ideologues will go to dumb you down and control the agenda.
PS Can anyone think of other Big Lies that are bigger than my nominees?
