www.eugyppius.com By Eugyppius
Preliminary thoughts on Corona and Climatism as competing ideological systems, and why that might be very bad.
Conventional wisdom holds that global elites will pivot to climate change, now that Corona is ending. Iâm starting to think that this might not happen and that weâve misinterpreted the ideological significance of Corona. Perhaps Corona happened because climate change was not good enough â because, as a politically orienting ideological system, it had failed to mobilise institutions and populations in the right way, and had entered the first stages of decline. Perhaps, in the coming decades, there will be other hysterias, but no real ideological push on the climate front ever again. Iâm not saying the climatologists, their institutions and associated grifts will disappear tomorrow. In any scenario, theyâll plug on for a long time. What I am imagining, though, is a future in which theyâll be steadily deprived of inertia, and ultimately fade into the background, like the war on terror.
First, to disarm some objections: Here Iâm only talking about the ideological and political prescriptions that fall under the âclimate changeâ heading. We might call this phenomenon Climatism, just as I use âCoronaâ to denote the broader political and ideological phenomenon surrounding the SARS-CovV-2 pandemic. Climatism is an ideological superstructure that rests on a foundation of empirical observations and scientific theory about the earthâs atmosphere and temperature. For the sake of argument, Iâll assume that this empirical substructure is mostly true and accurately portrayed. You can be sceptical of the Corona response without denying that there is a virus, and you can be sceptical of Climatism while accepting that the earth is getting warmer.
