The Media Produces Derangement: Proof From New York Times Readers

This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the “existential threat” climate change allegedly poses to human life.

As I do after almost every piece I read on the internet, I read comments submitted by readers.

One provided me with an epiphany.

It was a comment submitted by New York Times reader “Sophia” of Bangor, Maine:

“I have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming. She’s now 34 and has never changed her mind. So I will not experience a grandchild. For her wisdom, I am grateful. I would be heartsick if I did have a grandchild who would have to experience the onslaught of changing climate.”

It is hard to imagine greater proof than that comment of the power of mass media and of the left. That a normal woman would celebrate her daughter’s choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother can only be described as deranged. No normal-thinking human being would think that way. Jews had children during the Holocaust and made sure to have children if they survived the Holocaust.

Does this deranged woman know how few people are dying due to weather-related incidents in the era of global warming?

Danish statistician and economist Bjorn Lomborg noted this past week:

“Over the past hundred years, annual climate-related deaths have declined by more than 96%. In the 1920s, the death count from climate-related disasters was 485,000 on average every year. In the last full decade, 2010-2019, the average was 18,362 dead per year, or 96.2% lower.

“In the first year of the new decade, 2020, the number of dead was even lower at 14,893 — 97% lower than the 1920s average …

“The preliminary estimate of 2021 climate-related deaths [is] 5,569 or 98.9% lower than the 1920s …

“The newest Lancet study of heat and cold deaths show[s]that cold ‘vastly’ outweigh heat, and that climate actually has dramatically lowered [the number of] total death[s] … “

Of course, none of that matters to Sophia — because she relies on The New York Times (and probably NPR and CNN) for her understanding of the world.

For more proof of how deranged many New York Times readers — and Washington Post readers, CNN viewers and NPR listeners — are because they rely on these sources for what they believe about the world, here are some replies to Sophia’s comment from other New York Times readers:

B. Rothman, New York City: “I completely agree. I have 6 grandchildren and weep inside for the calamitous life that is ahead for them.”

Ida Martinac, Berkeley, California: “I weep with you, Sophia. Whenever I look my 11 year old daughter in the eyes I feel so many emotions: guilt for bringing her into this dying world.”

Liberal, Texas: “I feel your pain. I have 2 sons. Neither one will have children and their partners agree. I’ll never have grandchildren. But I also realize that their decisions have in some way been molded by me. I am proud of their decision.”

Liz, Portland: “Frankly, as someone who has been concerned about climate change, and observing what is happening over the last ten years with real dread, I do not understand why anyone in the last ten years would voluntarily have a child.”

CC, Sonoma, California: “My only daughter shares your daughter’s feelings. I will have no grandchildren. As I watch my peers enjoying their final years surrounded by grandchildren, I can’t help feeling a little jealous. At the same time … our daughters are stepping up to the challenge. I’m proud of them.”

Marisa Leaf, Brooklyn, New York: “I, too, am coming to terms and accepting that my 36 year old son will not have a child as well — for stated reasons. It is painful for me when I watch other young men and women his age going about town with their children. But I understand, and concur, on an intellectual level, that of course they’re right. Bringing more children into the world these days is an existential worry. And irresponsible. So, as I grieve for our planet, I also grieve for the grandchildren that I will never have.”

What do all these deranged reactions have in common? How could so many people living in the healthiest, wealthiest society in human history welcome not having grandchildren?

The answer is they have been brainwashed by the media (and college). They have read and heard nothing — absolutely nothing — by scientists and scholars (such as Steve Koonin of NYU, Richard Lindzen of MIT or William Happer of Princeton, to name just three) who have studied climate change and found the hysteria morally as well as scientifically indefensible. It is not possible to live a life insulated from left-wing ideas. But it is extraordinarily easy to lead a life insulated from all non-left-wing ideas.

So, then, the epiphany I had was this: A majority of people will believe anything the mass media tell them. This is especially true of those who received a college education. Colleges teach students not to question, not think for themselves and not to think rationally.

That is why many people believe the world is coming to an end; it is good not to have children or grandchildren; men give birth; Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; Israel is an apartheid state; all-black dormitories on college campuses are progressive; there should be fewer police; it is fair to women to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports; and myriad other absurdities.

There is no other explanation for these deluded readers of The New York Times.

However, I do agree with them on one point. I, too, support their children’s decisions not to have children. The world doesn’t need more fools.

Related: Just How Desperate Is CNN? It’s Not Pretty…


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It's so hard to believe we have this kind of ignorance in the U.S.....

well...fewer democrats....maybe they'll die off.


I on the other hand, wish my kids had had more. I had three to beat the stats. They've all had 2 each. Disappointing a bit. I love seeing how different they are..and how alike they are.

My great grandfather had eight though. 4 girls, 4 boys.

Elizabeth Theus wrote:It's so hard to believe we have this kind of ignorance in the U.S.....

No its not, Australia has been infected by the same stupidity. One brain dead idea is for women to freeze their eggs, have fabulous careers, and then have children in their 60s. I for some unknown reason have the suspicion that the donor sperm to make these "revolutionary children of progress" will come from African refugee camps. Meh...it must be a nutjob theory of mine....couldnt be true....those ads they have on Sydney buses must have been done by vandals.....right?

Elizabeth Theus wrote:It's so hard to believe we have this kind of ignorance in the U.S.....

Yeah.  Especially when you consider that they've obviously been around 10  - many, much longer than that - years, and it hasn't struck them that none of the dire predictions has happened?  That not much to do with the weather has changed?  That winter's still cold, and summers still hot?  

And I thought I was unobservant. 

Here is more proof.

It's a sixteen-minute video. WATCH! This is IMPORTANT!

"Menticide."  Very interesting word.
I could stand to take some of that gentleman's advice.

I have taken most of it. Inadvertantly...but it happened so.

I don't like gaslighting. I don't like someone pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining. It's why I've been slowly retreating...from my full-in blogger-postings over at CHCH, trying to create a media personality...on to where I just stopped watching or reading pretty-much everything.

It's ALL A LIE. I have no time for lies.

Life is short and I'm approaching the exit ramp. What little I can do, now, won't much matter. What I can do to limit the internal dissonance, limit the gaslighting, the deceit...those matter A LOT.

Casey...you'll probably live 25 more years.

Calypso Jones wrote:Casey...you'll probably live 25 more years.

One would hope.

The reality is, my mother died at 78; and my father at 75. BOTH had heroic medical intervention...my mother, several cancer surgeries and treatment; my father, two years of post-stroke care and a nursing home.

The honest estimate I give myself is, nine years. I could be wrong, of course...but the body is showing wear and failures.