Ya'll got any of that... global warming?
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Because their goal is negative GDP and destroying human development and growth.
They hate humans and human civilization. They worship "nature" and the non-human "natural" world and despise things like roads and farms and the spread of cities encroaching on their beloved "mother nature".
As absolutely retarded as that is, it is pervasive across cultures. Self-hating humans are a real thing.
That's the dumb people though. That's not an explanation for why the regime is pushing it. Just like the dumb people reason for supporting Ukraine is "aww... poor innocent people", and the regime has totally different motivations.
Well, I hate other humans. Not sure if that counts.
Lots of elites see humans as a cancer on the planet, and want to shut down human consumption and development as some kind of threat to the natural world. And yes, a lot of elites are crazy/stupid and believe whacked out shit. Look at how many are Leftists.
Let me just say that if you think elites are smarter or somehow playing 4d chess, they aren't. Elites are just normal people who either got lucky and born into money, or they happened to be good at 1 thing and are retards in most everything else (Kanye being an extreme example). Joe Biden is POTUS and we can both agree he's a retard. Kamala is also clearly stupid. Elites can be impressionable and manipulated and indoctrinated just like anyone else. Sure some are smarter than others, but there are no 4d chess geniuses behind the scenes ruling the world in a secret group.
As you have said before, obviously they would grant exceptions to themselves and their elite friends, they just want to shut down the consumerism and development of "the masses".
They don't care about "the natural world", except insofar that they enjoy being in nature and they don't think that the living standards of the swinish multitude justifies a diminution of their own pleasures. They do not regard "humans" as a cancer, they regard other people as a cancer. The non-elites.
Oh, I definitely don't think they're very smart. It's just that there is one set of reasons that they have for stuff, and another that they sell to the populace. "Your living standards need to decrease so that we have higher standard relative to you" isn't going to cut it, so they invent phony narratives.
Elites are the most immoral and unscrupulous people around, which is how they got to be elites. Even if they inherited wealth, they also inherited the immoral and unscrupulous genes from the people who got to where they were by nefarious means.
As if they have any actual power. They are but pawns of the elites, as "leaders" everywhere are. You yourself pointed out that Putin is constrained by elite opinion. And that's a "dictator"! How much more would that be true in a "democracy".
I'm not asserting any 'secret group'. Fact is that if you have money, then you have power. Fact is that lobbies, MNOs and NGOs have a lot of power. Fact is that the interests of these people differ markedly from ours.
And preferably have a regression in living standards. There is a quote in Nineteen Eighty Four where Orwell says that Inner Party members did not have great living standards, but that because everyone else was miserable, even small comforts granted all the more social standing.
I agree, and think that is the root of it. As their main hobby, these rich elites primarily travel to exotic places of natural beauty and think "wow these filthy humans are destroying all this".
I do think they look down on humans. If anything, they see themselves as something special and greater than an ordinary human. Some might have some self-hatred but this just fuels their liberal virtue signaling more.
I'm sure that's true sometimes, but a lot of the time they actually believe their own bullshit.
He might be constrained, but he is the lease constrained person in russia in terms of wielding power. It's just very rare historically to have a person who is almost completely devoid of constraint like Stalin or Mao.
Biden does have a lot of power. Sure, it's less than Putin compared to his countrymen, but Biden is still individually the most powerful person in America.