Mad Prophetess?

by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: The latest scandal of the How Dare You Say That!?! variety features The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles, who is banned from Fox News, we learn, because he characterized the celebrated "climate activist" Greta Thunberg as "mentally ill."

He said it while serving as one of those invited talking heads. The other guest immediately cried "how dare you?"

And censoriousness ensued, with high moral dudgeon and nasty put-downs and the whole shebang.

While I don't really know much about Miss Thunberg's mental health going into all this, I do not believe it can be much improved by playing Prophetess on the world stage.

Which also gives too much cultural power to someone so young. And since power corrupts . . . that's not good for Greta, and it makes her promoters corruptors.

And that is the point Mr. Knowles appeared to be trying to make. Reasonable people can disagree on the propriety of how "the execrable Michael Knowles" (as his fellow Daily Wire colleagues jovially refer to him) referred to the Swedish prophetess, of course. But it nevertheless remains rather shocking to witness

1. activist adults abuse
2. one child to
3. scare millions of children to
4. pressure powerful adults to
5. engage in precipitous policy action.

"Adults sometimes like to use children to carry their messages," vidcaster and Dilbert creator Scott Adams points out, "because it makes it hard for the other side to criticize them without seeming like monsters."

How can we "listen to the scientists," as Miss Thunberg recently implored, if the talking is being done by a young teenage non-scientist?

This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob.
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Paul Jacob (@Common_Sense_PJ ) is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service.

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