As I wrote elsewhere, one of the most magnificent contemporary pieces was written by Jeffrey Snyder, A Nation of Cowards. While the piece is overtly about concealed carry, it is much broader than that. To wit:
Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? If you believe that it is the police's, not only are you wrong -- since the courts universally rule that they have no legal obligation to do so -- but you face some difficult moral quandaries. How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself?...One who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back...He will never be content to rely solely on others for his safety, or to think he has done all that is possible by being aware of his surroundings and taking measures of avoidance.
What Snyder wrote applies literally to every situation under the sun, not just thieves in the night or bad dudes in an alley but bureaucrats in lab coats and college faculty in sport coats. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
But for a moment, consider the 19-year old in Quinnipiac. They saw this notice on the college's website: Quinnipiac is requiring all students, faculty and staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 to participate in the fall 2021 semester. Medical and religious exemptions will be granted upon review and were due by July 6, 2021.
Do the student's parents possess the mindset Snyder references? Have they imparted that mindset into their progeny? The exemption process is likely (and intentionally) not easy...that alone will deter the most casual opponents of the shots. In fact, I bet the college will offer information and links and all but administer the shot to the kid directly if they go that route; there will be no such support for the exemption-seekers. The mildly freedom-curious student or parent will give up; They'll cave.
For the remnants, not only do they need the will to persevere through this exemption process (which may require unjust queries, e.g. what kind of religion do you practice?), but in many ways they need a robust pro-liberty mindset that is exercised often.
As the meme goes, one does not simply become Deplorable over night. Sure, it's easy to see the immorality of what's going on. It's also easy to say "no, I'm not getting vaxxed." But, as difficult as it may be for people who've had a Framer's mindset all their life, noobs don't just follow up that new attitude with the ninja-like thought process and access to information to facilitate a successful redpilling in an instant. That process takes some time.
Yes, there ARE many students - backed by parents with Snyder's mindset that's exercised often - who climbed through the muck and mire of the exemption process successfully. Those are the future of our nation.
But the road ahead will not be easy. Yes, I know...it wasn't easy for us. At least when we were young, civil society tolerated rebellious youth. These kids will not be celebrated or championed by the universities. Indeed, these free-thinkers who were previously held up by leftist society as the future of the country, are now ridiculed and doxxed.
"Question Authority" has morphed into "Obey Authority".
For those noobs who haven't yet built a Snyder mind, we need to bring them into the fold. Liberty grows when the field of participants expands, not by shrinking ourselves to glory.
The silver lining in all this, is that this incredible opposition thrown up by the statists to someone standing athwart the political science of vaccinations and saying "halt", really reveals how scared they are of us.
It’s not about smarts..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh yes it is....... If one cannot cope with the environment as it exists, then the Law of Darwin simnply takes over.Thats the smart we speak of.
And yes, any one who graduates form Harvard these days can barely look after themselves , let alone anyone else. They are emotive, cast iron clad, dumb Marxists who live to emote rather than survive and thrive.
Dumber than dirt.
Anyone who subscibes to the theory that Marxism spawns intelligence are themselves intelligence challenged. I mean look at Venezuela?
True intelligence leads to wisdom, joy and the ability to thrive in ones living environment, and share with those who are sick, infirm or ill. And that means Capitalism, the greatest economic engine the world has ever experienced.
These Harvard rubes and all like them are a curse on the Constitution and the Freedoms by which we illuminate our way.
A pox on them all.