Slaying the God-Beast (Part 1)

Pascal's Wager, Virtue Signals and the Church of Net Zero

“The fundamental cause for trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

It had been a ruthless decade. Incidentally, it had all started with his fathers demise, 10 years earlier. An event that had led to catalytic growth. However he had to learn the hard way that growth doesn’t come for free or without consequences. The first in a long chain of events is the pruning process.

Dead wood needs to be removed, to create the space required for what is yet to come.

The first beast to be slain was that of Climate Change, that Net Zero fever taking the world stage like a new Catholic Sacrament. It had all the accoutrements too. Spectacled bishops in white garments, the priests in suits and the holy warriors with pigtails. We had sacred texts, unquestionable rules and regulations to boot. A system of the tithe (carbon credits) and one for confessions.

Woe betide to heretics. Excommunication was the favorite punishment, though other harsher methods existed. Thumb Screws no longer needed, financial destitution was usually enough.

If you’ve ever had doubts about the existence of God, then you’ve no doubt heard about Pascal’s Wager. That’s the idea that you better believe in the All Mighty because the cost of belief is cheap but the consequences of being wrong (an eternity in hell) are infinite.

Well Climate Change has its own wager too. Either we end Air Travel and convert to EV’s or the World will boil over.

None of it makes any sense. Rudimentary physics is all you need.

It’s called CO2 saturation.

‘Saturation’ occurs when CO2 has effectively absorbed virtually all of the infra-red surface radiation (within the available wavelength bands of the radiation spectrum). More CO2 has negligible effect.

A logarithmic outcome to end the climate debate, observe…

Vikid tried to explain this to intelligent people. All he faced was a blank stare. Face’s glazed over at the mention of Spectrography. One super intelligent guy he knows said, “We have to trust the experts”. Another said, “What if you’re wrong, the world will burn.”

Pascal shook his head.

The climate monster was indeed a beast spawn of the Devil, it used a combination of fear and an enchantment spell called “The Virtue Signal” to do its work. Nothing but misery would come out of it.

But who were you gonna believe? An internet blogger (and self proclaimed superhero) or NASA?

Saying all of that, there was a bigger beast. A God-Beast. It’s spell was a magnitude larger.

The beast was called Darwin and he had a theory called Evolution.

Questioning this theory was Heresy of the Highest Order.

Vikid had spent a lifetime at his alter and ridiculed many a religious bigot who clung to supernatural means, 6 days of creation, turtles and all that. The theory had been proven he was told, the logic was unassailable. And he had checked the logic himself.

Viruses and Bacteria mutate. Lab’s around the world had demonstrated it. It was the core foundation of civil society. Everything evolved from a single cell. Half of humanity ate Genetically Modified Foods. Over half of them had been injected with R-N-A to stave of the modern plague.

Yet there was a problem. Cause the theory didn’t work and all the evidence was either fake or highly exaggerated. It had taken Vikid a good 5 years of digging to finally come to that conclusion.

But if not Neo-Darwinism, then what?

A sky god with a white beard? A formless intelligence?

By Slaying his hero’s, Vikid had created a God-beast. It roamed the Savanah’s and had taken over all the Universities, terrorizing everyone.

What was to be done?

And that’s,

The Vikid Truth

(Part 2 - Slaying of the God-Beast, coming soon…)