Always ask: who has the most to gain by keeping a big problem alive?

Earlier, I wrote about the reasons for the ongoing existence of an underclass in a comparatively rich and decidedly left-wing country such as ours. I concluded that it’s because the people dependent on the underclass’s continued existence fight any concerted effort to turn their clients into responsible members of society.

Of course, the same principle applies to many of the world’s most intractable problems.

If the Palestinians weren’t such a useful cause for various Middle East fascists to rally round, and if they weren’t such an effective stick with which to beat the Americans and their representatives in the region,  the Israelis, the problem would be dealt with as equitably as possible, given the circumstances (to give that wise old Irish response to a request for directions – “Well, I wouldn’t start from here”). 

Islamo-fascists, Europe’s ruling liberal elite, assorted psychopaths who enjoy randomly slaughtering innocent people, Muslims who just can’t get enough of massacring local Christians, your standard-issue anti-semite, your basic Troskyist anti-capitalism “demonstrator” and his respectable, useful-idiot, middle class “ooh aren’t we daring” supporters, your left-wing Western media commentators and reporters – in fact, anyone who just can’t wait to see Uncle Sam and his few remaining friends humbled and neutered (as if Barack Obama wasn’t doing the job for them) – simply don’t want the problem solved. 

Let’s be brutally honest – very few of these people give a damn about the Palestinians: they’re using the situation for purposes which are irrelevant to the vast majority of Palestinians. 

Would Northern Ireland have remained such an expensive, nagging, infected tooth of a problem if various communistic working-class gangster psychopaths hadn’t enjoyed the opportunities afforded for indiscriminate violence and money-making, plus the lure of dressing up in pseudo-uniforms and balaclavas and cool shades and posing with guns? 

And wasn’t it a thrillingly immediate, unremote cause for democracy-hating British lefties to support? And as for silly, rich Americans whose ancestors had been forced to flee during the potato famine: didn’t giving money to murdering scum furnish them with a grand sense of purpose and give them a chance to reconnect with their ancient, tear-inducing  roots – sure and begorrah, weren’t they just like that black fellow in that swell TV series, that Kunta Kinte guy? 

Northern Ireland became yet another cause allowing irrelevant people to satisfy a variety of entirely unrelated political and psychological imperatives.  

The whole Global Warming swindle falls into the category of “problems” being kept alive artificially because of vested interests. The exposure of this vast scientific hoax would lead to thousands – tens of thousands – of scientists, politicians, pressure groups and journalists across the globe with nothing to do, and no money to do it with. We now know it’s a con. Theyknow it’s a con (though it must be hard to admit it, especially to themselves). But too many people have based whole careers on pretending it’s a genuine problem for them or the media to put up their hands and admit they either made a teensy-weensy little mistake, or that they’ve been deliberately lying by falsifying evidence to fool us all into thinking they’ve actually got a case, and that to expect the world to spend trillions of pounds to solve a problem that simply doesn’t exist just so they can carry on drawing a salary would be grotesquely immoral.

Whenever they come across a seemingly intractable global issue, our fearless liberal media automatically parks its brain in neutral, seeks out those very  people with the most to gain from perpetuating the problem, believe everything they’re told, then hand over their their notebook, saying, “Please, just write down exactly what you want me to say”. When they come across disinterested, knowledgeable  people telling the unvarnished truth, they immediately classify them as  lying bastards, and disbelieve every word they say. (Just look at how our media has treated  Eurosceptics over the years - the very people whom recent events in Ireland have proved utterly, completely and totally right.) 

All very odd!

Luckily, those of us who don’t work for the liberal media (any more, in my case) aren’t quite so naïve - or so intellectually lazy.