Review of John Kotter - Our Iceberg is melting
Our icebergs really are melting
Latest predications are that within ten years the North Pole will be free of ice in the summer and free of ice around the year only ten years after that. Luckily for them, penguins live on the South Pole.
The message of this story about the penguins seems clear to me. Don’t wait until everyone understands / is willing to understand what is happening and what we should do about it. We need a Leninist vanguard party that understands the objective interests of humanity and organizes the saving of the world in a ruthless way. Any resistance to this vanguard party will be identified as coming from ‘class enemies’ and has to be neutralized. The vanguard party is allowed to do this, because it is working for the good of mankind.
For this vanguard party to operate, democracy as it is does not have to be abolished; it is enough that the vanguard party takes control of it. The only question that remains is: who is going to organize the vanguard party, where are the charismatic leaders that will take hold of the situation? I think at one time the people of the Club of Rome where willing to do this.
To wit, this is if you believe in unconstrained social engineering, and have no doubt about the facts. Personally I don’t doubt the facts, but I think the 20th century has proved that an unconstrained believe in social engineering in all cases leads to totalitarianism. So, probably it is either that or us falling from the earth in the next century or so.
This is the last part of the review, a 4 page review you will find here on Scribd.
The message of this story about the penguins seems clear to me. Don’t wait until everyone understands / is willing to understand what is happening and what we should do about it. We need a Leninist vanguard party that understands the objective interests of humanity and organizes the saving of the world in a ruthless way. Any resistance to this vanguard party will be identified as coming from ‘class enemies’ and has to be neutralized. The vanguard party is allowed to do this, because it is working for the good of mankind.
For this vanguard party to operate, democracy as it is does not have to be abolished; it is enough that the vanguard party takes control of it. The only question that remains is: who is going to organize the vanguard party, where are the charismatic leaders that will take hold of the situation? I think at one time the people of the Club of Rome where willing to do this.
To wit, this is if you believe in unconstrained social engineering, and have no doubt about the facts. Personally I don’t doubt the facts, but I think the 20th century has proved that an unconstrained believe in social engineering in all cases leads to totalitarianism. So, probably it is either that or us falling from the earth in the next century or so.
This is the last part of the review, a 4 page review you will find here on Scribd.
Labels: collapse, crisis, democracy, environment, iceberg, leadership, leninism, penguins
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