{"id":1656,"date":"2015-02-06T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2015-02-06T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T10:17:20","slug":"impossible-to-question-established-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=1656&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Impossible to question \u201cEstablished Truths\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are established \u00ab\u00a0truths\u00a0\u00bb that became impossible to question, or then the one who dares doing so will be declared:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a negationist (that attributes to him a nice smell of hatefulness, similar to anti-Semitism);<\/li>\n<li>sold to a neo-liberal and slave driving capitalism, of course neocolonialist or otherwise imperialist;<\/li>\n<li>or, in a condescending tone, being oblivious, what is even worse than the first two categories, because in the asylum nobody worries anymore about your reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a not exhaustive list of these received truths, similar to increated religious texts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nuclear wastes, dangerous and impossible to dispose of in a stable, long term way;<\/li>\n<li>Synthetic chemicals, creating monsters that come out of the flask;<\/li>\n<li>Genetically modified organisms, against nature;<\/li>\n<li>Electromagnetic radiations, at all intensities and frequencies;<\/li>\n<li>Pesticides, serving only to enslave the farmers and to poison the consumers;<\/li>\n<li>Fertilizers, bad if synthetic, good if organic;<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity, to be fully preserved on every square meter of the globe;<\/li>\n<li>Organic food, because \u00ab\u00a0naturally produced\u00a0\u00bb, without any productivist spirit;<\/li>\n<li>Fair trade, which corrects terrible disparities and absolves the West of its sins;<\/li>\n<li>Man responsible for the climate and its disorders (sic); by respect, I spare here the woman;<\/li>\n<li>Finance with its overwhelming Mephistophelian aspects;<\/li>\n<li>Consumption, always exaggerated if by the other ones;<\/li>\n<li>Future generations, which need our solicitude because, of course, they will be more incompetent than us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Expertise and nuances no matter anymore, we just have to have an opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are established \u00ab\u00a0truths\u00a0\u00bb that became impossible to question, or then the one who dares doing so will be taxed of being a negationist, a villain capitalist, or, worse, of being oblivious. A non exhaustive list of such truths is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}