It's spectacle entertainment, it is the biggest show on earth, it is doomsday, it's 666, you are about to meet your maker if you don't repent. The world loves a con and Al Gore is one of the biggest con men of all. I expect him to climb up an Indian Rope Trick along side his faker global warming hoax 'hockey stick' graph and disappear into thin air. The least he can do for the real world is vanish into the AlGorezeera ether. The last part is just wishful thinking. m/rGore’s Traveling Salvation Show - Charles C. W. Cooke - National Review Online
The former vice president has seen The Future, and it needs his ideas.
Al Gore is at South by Southwest. You can tell by the length of the line. The former vice president is so popular here that hopeful attendees are stretched around two sides of Austin’s cavernous convention center. A docent inspects the ranks, explaining to those at the back that the hall is already full. But the crowds don’t care — they join and wait anyway, chatting idly among themselves and sending their youngest members on the beer runs. In the end, the event’s staffers are proven correct: Gore makes his speech to a ballroom packed to the rafters, and the thousands who had been warned camp outside the closed doors, watching the simulcast on their iPhones.
The title of Gore’s speech is “The Future,” and he draws the main themes from his book of the same name. As one might imagine, scaremongering about climate change weaves in and out of his presentation. From time to time, the usual enemies are brought out for applause: Congress is impotent and “does nothing” until it “gets the okay from special interests”; shadowy groups run the country, he claims, having “hacked” its democracy and corrupted its “operating system,” the Constitution. And the NRA, which defends a key part of that “operating system”? “A complete fraud,” Gore explains, “because it is financed by the gun manufacturers.”
Gore’s progressivism is orthodox, but his solutions are not. “We need to move everything to the Internet as quickly as we possibly can. If we do that, the future will belong to a well-informed citizenry.” One is left wondering how the United States coped for the greater part of its history.
As for the future, will the Information Age really lead to an Informed Age? In truth, most pertinent political information is already online, but, rather than having flung open the doors of the Library of Alexandria to a grateful populace, the primary consequence has been a rise in cheap sensationalism. Aldous Huxley worried, in an under-noted opposition to George Orwell’s prediction of information’s becoming rare, that the future would bring “the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant.” Do we doubt that so many of those who speak of technology as a panacea have, as Huxley warned, “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions”?
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