Poop Ship Shows How Quickly Society Breaks Down

By now everyone has heard about the so-called poop cruise ship that spent most of last week in the Gulf of Mexico. This ship had around 5,000 passengers and crew, lost power after an electrical fire. Not only did they lose most of their power, they lost control of their sewage system, causing backups and general problems. This story is interesting for a couple of reasons. First is the media over hype, which went as far as to suggest that a cruise ship power failure was like Hurricane Katrina. Second, it’s interesting how quickly society falls into chaos.

The media is perhaps easiest to make fun of. It is hardly surprising that the press loves this story. Nothing could be more exciting than a cruise ship full of stranded passengers and backed up toilets. Never mind that no one was in any real danger, they weren’t really stranded in the middle of the Ocean with no help in sight. No doubt these passengers had a trying five days at sea but the media blew this into a side show all last week. Between comparing the trials of cruise ship passengers to those who suffered after a hurricane and cutting off Bible quoting cruise survivors, the media made fools of themselves yet again last week.

What is really interesting about this cruise ship is how quickly society fell apart. Obviously Carnival Cruise lines wasn’t really prepared for this sort of a disaster at sea. Nevertheless, no one on board was in any danger and Carnival so much as told passengers that. Less than half a day into this ordeal, one passenger freaked everyone out by shouting ”they’re lying to us!” Passengers became desperate for news as they no longer had internet access. When food was made available, people at the front of the line gorged themselves as though food would never be offered again. It’s amazing fights didn’t break out between rival gangs of passengers. Perhaps in another day or two it might have happened.

Obviously not everyone behaved poorly. There are accounts of people making friends on board, suffering through five inconvenient days together both befuddled and amused by it all. Society collapsed on board this ship and it should concern us should society ever collapse on land. We in the United States like to pretend that disasters on the sort of scale that collapse societies don’t happen here. Yet in the past decade we’ve had two hurricanes that collapsed local society and neither ended well. Hurricanes in New York and New Orleans saw thousands of people unable to take care of themselves, largely because they had no idea how to.

After those hurricanes people looked to a government that eventually showed up. One wonders what happens if government no longer exists or if it is incapacitated to the point where it cannot show up. How quickly will society devolve into utter chaos? On board a cruise ship it was a matter of 12 hours before people freaked out. Looting happened almost immediately in New York and New Orleans after hurricanes. If God forbid nuclear weapons incapacitate our government how long will it take for society to completely collapse in America? It’s a good bet that it will be less time than you initially think.

We live in a relatively secure society. Despite the media hype about gun violence and chaos, most Americans live a safe and secure life. This is why events such as 9-11 shock us so much, attacks on our safety are so few and far between we don’t even consider them in any serious way. That’s probably not such a good idea. We have enemies out there like Iran and North Korea who would almost certainly use nuclear weapons against us if they could. We have a national debt we can never hope to pay off that could truly collapse the dollar and our society some day. While we should avoid becoming survivalist crazies, it wouldn’t kill Americans to be a little more prepared than we are today. There is no guarantee the nanny state will be there to protect you when disaster strikes. In fact, you can probably bet that the state won’t be there.

The Plight of Global Warming Heretics

Global warming, or climate change as they like to call it now, is a religion. It requires strict faith that science knows what it’s talking about. It requires scientists to strictly adhere to climate change orthodoxy or risk having ones reputation tarnished as a heretic. Make no mistake, global warming/climate change does require extreme faith. It requires one to believe in the dire prophecies of scientists, it requires one to believe that the climate scientists have it right and cannot possibly be wrong. It’s little different than my Christian faith, which requires me to believe that scriptures are accurate and correct. Between global warming, evolution and big bang, science has become a religion that requires strict faith absence any facts. It has become that which it claims to abhor.

Johnny Ball is the latest heretic in the scientific world. Ball has the audacity to question climate change. Those in Britain may remember Ball as he had a long running scientific television program. Ball has criticized global warming/climate change theory and has pointed out that it is absurdly expensive to implement various measures aimed at reducing carbon, which has not been proven to be a problem. As a result, Ball has been the victim of attacks online, reduced bookings and other sinister campaigns against his name. He is a heretic in the scientific world for daring to question the conclusions of climate scientists.

Ball is one of hundreds who have been condemned as heretics in the scientific world. Those who outed the scientists who manipulated data at East Anglia and the UN have been condemned as heretics. The data manipulators were given a pass, after all they care so very much about ‘saving’ Earth. Why, they just manipulated data for the good of the world. Those who outed them are evil, they want to destroy the Earth and must have some wicked affiliation with business. If the business is big oil, all the better.

This is how science operates today. Disagreement and questioning isn’t tolerated in the world of climate change. Oh sure, climate scientists are free to question when the disaster will strike and they’re free to question and debate what can save Earth. They can question so long as the ultimate conclusion reached is that man is responsible for warming the Earth and that warming is ‘dangerous’. Any other conclusion reached is cause for a charge of heresy.

Science used to be a field where questioning conclusions was acceptable. There used to be very few absolutes, every conclusion was open to questioning and proving wrong. But in the last century science has become a very rigid field, at least in three areas that just happen to be areas that liberals adore. One is not free to question evolution. It is an absolute fact and any questioning of it is proof that one isn’t a scientist. This despite the fact that there isn’t any actual evidence of evolution, just connections that science assumes proof. The same can be said for big bang. Climate change is another. Science has become religion and unfortunately since the 50′s many Americans were willing to believe the scientists just because they’re scientists.

For those terribly concerned about global warming there is a man made fix to the problem. We are told a small scale nuclear war could reverse the non-existent global warming that we are supposed to fear so much. I think left-wing scientists should run with this information. ‘Nuclear war to save the planet’ ought to be the new global warming slogan. It’s no more absurd than listening to scientists claim that the oceans will rise up and devour New York City or that big winter snow storms are proof of global warming.

The Earth isn’t warming, in fact it hasn’t gotten any warmer since the 90′s. I say this as a global warming heretic though, so take it with a grain of sand. There is a growing heretical movement in the world that sees through the madness coming from science today. There are more and more people who realize that these scientists are in bed with politicians and governments and are working together to take power away from the people. Global warming is a farce and its turning science into a worldwide joke. That science has heretics and that it treats those who question with contempt ought to bother all of us.

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