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The Intercept: New Study: Numerical and Science Literacy Cause Climate Change Skepticism

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This is typical of those who for one reason or another adopt and propagate the memes of the elite. The goal is not education when it comes to elite propaganda – it is compliance.

We can see in the above excerpt that those who were advocating greater education in order to raise the acceptance of climate change are all too willing to abandon education once it is perceived that numeracy was having the “wrong” impact.

Of course, this is another dead end when it comes to the inculcation of this meme. There is a good deal of conflicting information about whether the world is warming or not. No doubt heightened numeracy brings this lack of evidence to people’s attention.

Those behind the study – and they obviously have an agenda – now propose other forms of mind control. But in fact, they may be facing an inexorable reality that we call the Internet Reformation.

Like the Gutenberg Press, the Internet and the information on it is changing the way people approach their world. The ability of the power elite to generate fear-based promotions is gradually dimming.

Whether it is global warming, the war on terror or even central banking, the memes simply are not so effective in the 21st century as they were in the 20th.

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The Intercept: New Study: Numerical and Science Literacy Cause Climate Change Skepticism.

June 2nd, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

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