Lev Shestov in Kiev, 1916. Sometime in the late nineteenth century, a young Jewish intellectual called was kidnapped for several months. Every day he thought he would be killed.
When he was finally released, he spent the rest of his life ridiculing the liberal illusion that we can know anything for certain about anything. Or, as a climate scientist recently put it in response to the “dead as a doornail” 1.5C target: “You shouldn’t ask scientists how to galvanize the world because clearly .
” In other news, Trump has been re-elected. The outgoing Democratic administration oversaw the greatest-ever increase in US oil and gas production. The devil and the deep blue sea, as you might say.
Over in Valencia, are clogging rivers after the floods, and the 100,000 people taking part in the street protests are understandably getting angry. Meanwhile, in , the ever-cheerful Ed Miliband tells us we need to “keep 1.5°C alive.
” Good luck with that, Ed. Here’s another statistic to chew over: 52 per cent of Hispanics voted for Trump. The only group to vote in greater numbers for the Democrats this election, compared to the last, were white college-educated people.
Telling, isn’t it? I’ve been saying for a while now that people need to get out there and do some doorknocking. But very few people—especially white, college-educated ones—actually want to talk to real people. Much better to stay on social media and moan about Trump.
Depression can be delicious, can it not? .
