Andy A. West recently published a book entitled THE GRIP OF CULTURE – The Social Psychology of Climate Change Catastrophism. It is similar in many respects to Mattias Desmet’s text entitled The Psychology of Totalitaianism.
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Desmet has a dual PhD in Psychology and Mathematics (Statistics), whereas West is a Sociologist. Both studied the issue of Climate Change by using statistical methods to learn something about the nature of people’s beliefs in the topic. They examined the results of their studies through different lenses, so although they reached slightly different conclusions, their research confirmed the same facts. They were both right.
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Desmet perceived Totalitarianism as a form of mass psychosis or Group Think, with characteristics not unlike hypnosis.
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West used the ‘Relative Religiosity’ of 5 countries to identify patterns. He examined a large quantity of surveys that measured people’s responses using either Unconstrained or Reality-constrained questions.
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· Unconstrained: Yes or No, do you have serious concern about Global Warming?
· Reality-constrained: From this list of 9 topics choose the 3 that are of most concern to you. Global Warming would be just one of the 9 topics listed.
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When he compared the Unconstrained and Reality-constrained studies he found that based on the relative Religiosity of countries the results were invariably contradictory. In other words, countries where people tended to answer that they DID have a serious concern about Global Warming, typically DID NOT list that subject among the top 3 of 9 concerns.
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What West was able to do through his research is highlight cases where people gave a rather Emotional response to an issue, as opposed to thinking through the matter Rationally. From this the following patterns became obvious.
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1) Many and in fact most people, tend to respond Emotionally and Not Rationally, when asked an ‘open’ question about Climate Change.
2) It you present individuals with Facts that contradict their Cultural Beliefs they become frustrated and angry, since they are unable to defend their beliefs.
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WEST – The Grip of Culture …
https://www.thegwpf.org/publications/culture/
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DESMET – The Psychology of Totalitarianism …
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You can choose for yourself whether Desmet or West was ‘most right’. The important issue here is that both of their studies are valid and confirm one another. There is something very wrong about the unquestioning belief in Climate Change. … Facts do matter.
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This issue also has a strong Political dimension. In the US it is the Democrats that push the Climate Change agenda, while in Canada it is championed by the Liberals, NDP, and Green Party. In both instances the agenda is reinforced daily by Legacy MSM, and any dissent is treated like Blasphemy.
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