Question: would it take a nuclear bomb going off under his arse for Andrew Bolt to acknowledge there might, just might be an issue with the Fukushima reactor? Bolt is also the first documented case of “ideological solipsism syndrome”

For the past week Andrew Bolt has thrown his scientific and political genius at the Fukushima reactor.

It’s not that bad, says Andrew.

The media are panicking.

The “greens” have an anti-nuclear agenda.

He’s had “experts” (actually a former Telstra CEO with links to nuclear industry) on his MTR program to say really, it won’t be that bad.

He’s claimed that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had no lasting impact. Gosh, it mustn’t have been that bad eh?

Today he is “astonished” by the world’s reaction to what is clearly a major disaster in the making:

…The problem remains serious, but still no one has been killed or is likely to be, although two workers are said to be missing.

There is reason to hope that power can be restored to the electric pumps that cool the spent nuclear fuel that has been in danger of overheating through later of water cover The International Atomic Energy Agency reports:

Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that engineers were able to lay an external grid power line cable to unit 2. The operation was completed at 08:30 UTC.

They plan to reconnect power to unit 2 once the spraying of water on the unit 3 reactor building is completed.

The panic this emergency has induced is astonishing.

Let me see…

Over 14,000 people are feared dead from the earthquake.

Tens of thousands of survivors are freezing in out door conditions.

There are concerns about the safety of Japan’s food and water due to radiation.

The US has just come out and said the problems with the reactor are far more serious.

Tens of thousands have fled to Tokyo airport in a desperate effort to escape.

The Australian government has told Aussies to “get out now“.

Astonishing, all this panic!

Andrew must have information the world’s governments and Japanese citizens aren’t privy too.

Either that or his universal genius allows him to see the “real issues”.

Andrew Bolt: the first documented case of “ideological solipsism syndrome”

Can this man, sitting in the Herald Sun’s South Bank office in Melbourne, tens of thousands of kilometres away actually have a sense of what is going on?

Has he not seen the footage coming out of Japan?

I have a new term for the likes of Bolt.

Ideological solipsism syndrome (ISS)

Solipsism is:

“…the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is sure to exist. The term comes from Latin solus (alone) and ipse (self). Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside one’s own specific mind is unjustified.”

Andrew combines this with his ideological filter in which he filters out any and all information that contradicts his extreme right-wing paranoia.

Hence the condition known as ISS.

Nothing exists outside Andrew’s mind except what he thinks it should be. If anyone dare contradict his views they MUST be liars. Or barbarians!

There are demons and hobgoblins flitting in and out of the shadows of Andrew’s world, attacking him and working to overthrow Western Civilisation.

Of course, Andrew equates himself with “Western Civilisation”. An attack on him IS an attack on the proud heritage of the “West”!

All those “Muslims” trying to white-ant our culture.

Those leftists betraying their Judeo-Christian heritage… even though Andrew Bolt is an acknowleged agnostic and would have been burn’t alive at the stake a few centuries ago by the Church for that lack of faith.

“Those BARBARIANS!” he splutters with a barely contained rage at those who dare disagree with him.

These demons and barbarians take the form of “greens”, “elites”, “scientists”, “refugees”, “leftists”… indeed, anyone who does not agree with his narrowly defined, hate filled politics.

The dreaming ideologue and the barbarians at the gate of South Bank

Andrew sits dreaming in the HUN’s Southbank tower, looking out at a world he barely understands while mystified that it does not accord with how the thinks it should work.

“Astonishing!” he mutters to himself…