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Monday, September 29, 2003


Ted Turner shows why no one takes him seriously
Be honest, now: when you need advice on any subject other than how to build a TV empire, oh, say about the future of the human race, would you ever in your most besotted moments ask Ted Turner?

"If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years," Turner said. "Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me."
Well, I don't know about humanity itself, but If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about certain that Ted Turner will be extinct within 50 years.

Sorry, couldn't resist. What makes Ted an immensely rich-but-unserious person is the way he universalizes his own insecurities into a global threat. First, the litany: WMDs, sickness, global warming. Then the diagnosis: those things scare Ted to death a whole lot. Then the prognosis: humanity is doomed (okay, he gave the prognosis first).

His entire position is based on his feelings. He feels scared. Ergo, humankind is going to perish. And this gets several column inches in the AJC. My, my.

by Donald Sensing, 9/29/2003 02:27:29 PM. Permalink |  





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