Removing Comparisons
Comparing or comparison is defined as an examination of two or more items to establish similarities and dissimilarities. The definitive or authoritative phrase here is “two or more items”. If there are no similar items and everything is dissimilar, there is nothing analogous to compare something to. A dissimilar comparison often quoted is comparing “apples and oranges”. They can be compared, but the only thing comparable is they’re both fruit and essentially the same shape.
Two items being compared may be a multitude of things, including products, works, studies, people, animals, or history – the list is effectively endless. Certain things now are subject to erasure, expunging, or eradication because they are considered subversive, opposed to or misrepresenting beliefs of specific progressive ideologies.
How exciting and exhilarating it must have been for climate change activists and alarmists when Michael Mann, then at the University of Virginia, through climate reconstruction using proxies such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and lake sediments, fully eliminated, what scientists for centuries have known as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). Refuters of anthropogenic climate change would constantly ‘compare’ the current temperatures and weather to the MWP which extended from 950 AD through 1250 AD. Mann’s formation and fabrication hockey stick temperature graph fully removed warming until the industrial revolution when humans started burning fossil fuels.
This literally expunged the ability for denial comparisons. Michael Mann became an instantaneous climate change hero and in the monarchy of climate change advocacy, he still is – except he was proven wrong, in short order, a number of times, and of course, the MWP continues to live in reality, actuality, and truth.
With perhaps the exception of German and Austrian Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s, the attempts at the modification of history are now at an all-time high. Progressive politics is endeavoring to conceal what many construed as normal by burying them as “Neanderthalic” concepts and thinking. They arrive at specific points and perceptions, first as the “new normal, which is often the abnormal, eventually then eliminating the “new” from the expression. When that normal becomes a standard abstraction there can really be no traditional comparison, and cancel culture often makes for a reticent culture.
The United States fought the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 to abdicate a nation away from a king who was king and convert it to a nation where the law was the king. I was reminded of how this has changed when a judge was jeered, heckled, and hounded into submission at a Sanford Law School near Palo Alto, California. The progressives always live in packs and have no shame in fighting with name-calling, debating with nary any civility, and customarily without legitimate rejoinders.
Currently, the warmth of the summer of 2023 has been environmentally christened as unprecedented and will assuredly be appointed by alarmists as the hottest ever - despite being preceded by one of the coldest winters in years. Yet, the decade of the 1930s and especially 1936 as illustrated by Wikipedia and linked here had similar excruciating heatwaves. That year there were 5,000 heat-related deaths in the United States and 780 direct and 400 indirect deaths in Canada. Ironically, but most likely scientifically, the heat of 1936 was preceded by an extreme winter cold wave. Exactly the same situation as has been experienced in the year 2023.
This is another reason progressives, in all aspects of life and living, want history erased. They want to write their own so that comparisons and connections cannot be made. When challenged climate change advocacy is essentially the same - at some point in this messed-up world, however, all laws must be upheld and there must be a return to uncorrupted prudence and practicality.
