What I found rather sad was the almost ritualistic bashing of environmentalists and lumping them together with corrupt politicians and other anti-social elements. However at the same time the good folks of India inc. ask for water , electricity and food shortages to be met! To think that environmentalists don't have any role in solving all that is sheer folly. Funny thing is that these folks are educated many of them subsidised by public ( which include many peons and clerks as well as CEO's )and have access to all the public domain information in the net that shows with some impeccable scientific credentials that the way we are using up our resources are not sustainable. Even as global warming has become a life and death issue with "backward ignorant peasants" out there in the Sunderban islands these people keep on talking about progress, progress where the environmentalists are seen as erecting unncecessary hurdles. While there's another kind who are always complaining about taxes.Do you people know where Sweden stands as far as levels of taxation and social security expenses are concerned ? Sweden is not a communist country and in size its comparable to U.K . So please try to be a little objective and detached about your own self interests and look at the broad picture before mouthing the same tired cliches about the politicians. However one has to admit that the point of science is objective evaluation which is not quite the forte of the "chattering classes" or those having aspirations to attain those dizzy heights Santanu
RE:Ignorance is a bliss indeed
by Jayakrishnan V on Apr 14, 2007 11:18 PM Permalink
well written, Santanu. This author seem to be a pawn of profit oriented businessman. this is not journalism, this is exactly what power brokers in politics do. I liked your term "chattering classes", yes we have journalists like who has pwaned their consciouness to make money - they seem to be propagating the idea that they only have brains, and others like environmentalists are nuisancee. They are ready to lend their brains to profiteering
RE:Ignorance is a bliss indeed
by santanu sengupta on Apr 15, 2007 12:04 AM Permalink
Hi Jayakrishnan, the trouble with corporate media is the same the world over . India too is jumping into the same bandwagon, the principal goals of these MSM ( mainstream media ) are to massage the egoes of upcoming consumer classes and selling them expensive goods. As has been pointed out by critical thinkers its no longer the newspapers which are sold to us , rather its us the consumers who are sold to the businesses by the newspapers. Obviously uncomfortable truths don't have any place in this "feel good" scenario and the India Inc. and their hangers-on are ready to lap it all up .
