![]() ![]() There’s no substantial economic incentive to push that agenda.Ĭertainly not huge ones: there are huge economic incentives to deny global warming. And what money interest is there for the people who believe in global warming, the scientists and all them? What possible money interests - OK, maybe some minor thing, perhaps an alternative energy source is a minor possible way to make money. The global warming deniers, that’s mostly based on money, and the threat to industries, and having to retool and everything like that costs a lot of money. It’s just all the money in those kinds of situations. And seeing the way we squander resources and gorge the atmosphere 24 hours a day, seven days a week with carbons, it could be having a dire effect, scientists don’t know that much. Yeah, even if there’s the slightest possibility that they’re right. I would say in the case of global warming that the precautionary principle should be urgently applied. Well, in the case of global warming, OK, I don’t trust the scientific consensus myself, because there’s too many other areas where scientific consensus is also a put-up job. ![]() Every single Republican candidate, with the hedging exception of Romney and possibly Huntsman, who don’t stand a chance anyway, does not believe that there’s such a thing as global warming. Yeah there’s her, and then there’s that guy from Texas, I don’t know what he’s like. ![]() There’s that “Pacman” woman, what’s her name, Bachman? You know what’s going on over here in terms of the Republican candidates, right? I mean, perhaps even more so than 20 or 30 years ago. I was thinking just last night, that politically, the entire situation just seems completely hopeless. We haven’t come that far since Hitler, and the concentration camps, and the gas chambers, Stalin and Mao, all the people they had killed or sent off to Siberia or whatever. Well, not entirely, but human nature being what it is, somebody once said, “socialism: great idea, wrong species.” And you think of the Pharaohs getting the entire population of Egypt to build those pyramids just to their fucking glory. Yeah, I used to be such a strong believer in communism and socialism and stuff. But what the real truth is, you just see more and more the complexity of life. You come to realize, well, that certainly is not true. I think the wisdom of age is mostly negative wisdom. Why is that, do you think? Is it because you know more and you know more of what you don’t know? I'm less sure of what I believe now than I was 30 years ago. On some profound level don’t you believe that’s true? “No I’m not psycho, I’m as normal and sane as you. Am I nuts? Am I psycho? Like I said, what, I’m supposed to deny. īut I can’t get into an argument like that. No, the Meese Report was entirely rigged. Some were actually very repressed, like Christian types, or came from extremely repressive religious families, so no conclusion’s ever been come to about that. Some rapists looked at pornography, some didn’t. There were studies done showing there was no relation to pornography and rape or child abuse or anything. ![]() Playboy did a long series of articles trying to oppose that and show that it was spurious. They came out with these phony studies that showed how rapists and people like that had been influenced by pornography. In the ’80s they had the Meese Commission to suppress pornography under Reagan. Maybe I should be locked up, I have no idea.” People are willing to print my work and disseminate it, and they get away with it.īut then they'll ask, “Don’t you feel any responsibility to the audience?”Īnd I say, “Of course I do, but the question of the effect on the audience is not answered, the verdict’s not in.” I just throw up my hands and say, “I dunno. That’s why I said in that article, if I’m confronted by some angry child-abuse group I have no defense, I don’t know what to say. Nobody’s a saint, you know - when you do the kind of fringe stuff that I’ve done in my work, I’m not sure what the fuck I’m doing. Because people will use the truth, if you’re truthful and honest they’ll use it against you. Spin doctors and public relations and every goddamn thing, absolutely. That’s why you have this whole professional class of liars.Įxactly. That’s why lawyers tell you, “don’t say anything.” Features Robert Crumb-Live Online: The Interview That Didn’t Happen ![]()
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