I did something I promised myself I would stop doing on Twitter the other day, I made a snarky remark about climate change. I wasn't going to right about the ensuing debate, or the topic itself, as it does not fit the nature of this blog, however, then it struck me; climate change and the red pill have many things in common. They are both issues that have strong components within both facts and policy, both are emotionally loaded and they tend to involve policy solutions that have unforeseen and negative consequences.

The reason why I tend to avoid issues like climate change is for the simple reason that they are highly emotional issues. In addition, many of the climate change adherents are pushing policy, and predictably engage in typical name-calling rather than discussions regarding underlying principles.

This is very similar to discussing social issues, where statements of a red pill nature frequently can have you branded a misogynist faster than a 35 year old single girl empties a box of wine.

The Facts

I have no issues with the main facts of the climate change debate, co2 emissions are at the highest recorded level ever, high levels of Co2 in the atmosphere traps heat, thus leading to the temperature of the earth increasing, leading to a string of other consequences.

In the same manner, I have no issues with the facts in the red pill debate, women do earn less than men, there are more men than women at high levels of business and government. There are inherent biological differences between the biological sexes, and also a string of social differences. Women are disproportionately victims of sexual violence, men of violence in general. Women tend to live longer, and men commit suicide at higher rates. Back in the day feminism was founded based on an empirical observation that women could not vote, then that women were not treated equally in the workplace, then that women were not treated in a way that would make Kim Jong Un jealous.

My issue in neither case are with what can be documented in terms of facts, meaning empirical structured observations according to positivist methodology, that tells us the "what" of a situation. It is with the convolution of problem with solution.

For instance, the suffragettes who got women the vote, were uniquely focused on one side of the equation. The right to vote, they did not also demand the duty to protect your country in the advent of war. The female libertines who demanded the pill and free abortion as baseline female reproductive rights, were not focused on securing the same for men.

This highlights a tendency to ignore facts one does not like, that either reduces the value of the right by adding a duty, or adds nuance to the factual hammer being used to nail up the policy.

The Policies

The policies enacted in order to solve the perceived problem established by the facts on the other hand are often lacking in empirical information and tend to be driven by ideological perspectives. For instance, with the climate change crew, its lead by a string of celebrities that have multiple massive mansions in a myriad of countries and are flying around the world in private jets, telling everyone else that they have to stop driving to work. Who are largely being helped by politicians who seeing that the clock is ticking for how long they can fool their constituents are aiming to land a cushy gig in an international organization where they can follow in the footsteps of the celebrities.

On the right on the other hand, they are seeing that the mere acceptance of the facts means that the left will push their narrative and ideological solutions, which will cost them millions in corporate sponsorship. Not to mention the fact that they have spent the last 50 years being pounded harder than a middle-aged housewife on a Jamaican "find myself" vacation. So, they are refusing to accept that its getting warmer.

The policies to respond to the facts under point one, are predictably problematic, where the right seeking to alleviate the situation without pissing off their lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry, and the left seeking to enact more regulations and more taxation that hurts the average consumer.

In the same way, the left has taken the position that anyone who is not a white man is always going to be oppressed, while being founded on more questionable research than polling companies in the 2016 election. The fact that women and men come out with different results in various statistical measurements are simple facts. However, the problems has been packaged to propose policy that inevitably produces more problems.

The irony of over 100 years of "female liberation" in the west is that the more policies that are put in place to promote equality within the sphere of alleged oppression, the more women suffer from depression [1]. Within some of the most gender egalitarian countries in the world, women are in fact seeking more traditional roles [2] and within education the gender divide is in fact increasing. [3]

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