RAMPTON AND STAUBER ARE AT IT AGAIN

One of the reasons we ecosocialists can credit for the fact that our ideas are not discussed meaningfully is the amazing human capacity for self-deception. Two of the most penetrating chroniclers of human self-deception are Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, who have a new book out. If you haven't read their previous book, "We're Experts -- Trust Us," already, you should -- it gives some pretty hilarious historical examples of human self-deception, such as the rallies the tobacco companies once organized to get women to fight for their right to smoke. Today, in the online version of Counterpunch, Kevin Zeese interviews Sheldon Rampton, who offers some pithy commentary on the pro-war faction's disdain for the truth. The real truth, however, is that folks like Rampton and Stauber only scratch the surface of the human capacity for self-deception. It's really amazing how, in the face of solid evidence that shows human industrial society dismantling planetary ecosystems, people just continue on as if nothing were wrong.