The Dim Defense

I know I’m becoming more predictable with regard to my regular postings about The Line and my frequent excoriating of John Dimdahl. Still, something interesting and unpredictable happened this week (amidst much that was very predictable).

The biggest hoot on the show was in a juxtaposition of Dimdahl’s. First, he raged against all whacko enviros like Al Gore. John’s position is simple: until everyone agrees with him, he’s not going to believe what they say. Really, that is nearly a quote and a very faithful summary of his argument. In Dimdahl’s view, you cannot really care about the environment (a rather huge topic) if you don’t accept nuclear power. So, if you recycle, if you avoid buying crap, if you walk everywhere and are a vegan, you’re still not a sincere environmentalist until you accept nuclear power. Thank you, John, for removing all doubt about what an asshole you are.

But what made me laugh out loud was the transition from this “I’ll trust you when you agree with me” madness to immediately follow up with the Galileo Defense of his view on Mankind’s Murder of the Earth (including global warming). Dimdahl defends the minority view (huzzah) that everything is OK and, because Galileo was right and the majority wrong, that must be true in this case. I, too, tend to feel that if everyone agrees on something, they’re all wrong. And I’m a life-long contrarian. Neither of which have anything to do with the fact that human beings are bent on destroying everything. And the people who profit most handsomely in this destruction deny it is happening.

Now, the most surprising thing in this whole segment was to hear Steve Lawrence pounce on Dimdahl and push hard against his lunacy. Bravo, Steve. It almost makes up for your incessant interruption of every speaker. mjh

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