Quote of the Day, They Kind Of Get Off On It, In Fact edition.

This is old: but oh, so true. Steven Hayward:

People often ask me why environmentalists tend always to incline to apocalyptic conclusions about the state of the planet. “Because it makes them happy,” is my standard response.

Steven went on to say that he wasn’t being tongue-in-cheek; and I agree, he wasn’t.  There is a remarkable amount of schadenfreude in most depictions of eco-apocalypse, coupled with the nigh-universal presence of gloating in those works where a Saving Remnant exists to watch the rest of the world drown, burn, and/or decay*. One wonders how the people who enjoy that sort of thing feel when the Apocalypse never quite comes….

Via AoSHQ , via Ed Driscoll.

Moe Lane

*Don’t smirk: the themes exist in other dystopian fictional works, too.  Notably including both in some Tribulation stories and, most famously, in that epic work of softcore sadism pornography known as Atlas Shrugged.

8 thoughts on “Quote of the Day, They Kind Of Get Off On It, In Fact edition.”

  1. Yesterday I figured out a good way to get a bunch of Samurai into the Wild West.
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    Today I think I need to look again at this sort of setting, and see what kind of worthwhile things could be done. Now I just need to find where the evil mutant polar bears take me.

      1. Haven’t seen it. I’ve read the section of Dan Gibson’s Sic Semper Morituri that was probably inspired by it.
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        I wanted an AU history where a hand could as easily be a Japanese warrior as a Mexican. Regular history didn’t displace enough people for what I wanted.

  2. *Don’t smirk: the themes exist in other dystopian fictional works, too. Notably including both in some Tribulation stories and, most famously, in that epic work of softcore sadism pornography known as Atlas Shrugged.
     
    Naaaaah. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes the gold medal there.

  3. “…coupled with the nigh-universal presence of gloating in those works where a Saving Remnant exists to watch the rest of the world drown, burn, and/or decay*.”

    I am afraid to say that such a thing exists on the Right these days. I have read many commenters elsewhere who, watching the political shenanigans, say “LIB – Let It Burn” and other such things.
    (I admit saying to a few that they seemed to be looking forward to the LIB scenario, though they did say they weren’t.)

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