My heart aches for young people. They will never know freedom that I had. Granted, I lived on bases for many years and was given the run of the base...after all, what kind of trouble could I get into?
Plenty, as it turns out. But that isn’t the point-the point is...I don’t like what I see, this overarching nanny-statism of “safety”.
Safety all the time, everyone, everywhere, whether you want it or not.
I am sick and tired of living in a society where the media highlights every single person, researcher, politician, or organization that has the vapors about safety issues with everything involving everything from coronavirus, bb guns, bicycles, cars, monkey bars, wine, smoking, encephalitis, flesh eating bacteria, saturated fats, Alar, eggs, coffee, cats, dogs, flying, driving, keeping score in games, walking, exercising, peanuts, Big Wheels, Internet Usage, self esteem, asbestos, lead paint, you name it.
There is this freakish and odd fixation with total safety-the fear that anyone in the world could end with a skinned knee or hurt feelings. They want to wrap not just kids, but people up in bubble wrap.
We are all going to die. All of us. Nobody gets out alive. No one.
I am sick of living in a society where people have panic and fear written all over their faces about damn near anything. A kid has a BB gun in the background while taking part in a virtual lesson and other people...ONLINE...have the vapors because the kid had a BB gun leaning against a wall. The stupidity is astonishing.
It is not too much to predict they would have the same response if there were a photograph there, or even a painting of a BB gun.
Don’t go outside. Don’t swim in the ocean. Don’t do this. Don’t do that. Conservatives are complicit in this too, but the lion’s share of this stupidity is the Left. Their mental illness is becoming contagious.
We see it with this idiotic mask crap, and there is more of this coming.
It brings to mind this quote from C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under live robber barons than under omnipotent moral busibodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
“Nobody gets out alive”
I think this is what they are all afraid of ... bottom line
The C.S. Lewis quote really says it.
great post ...thanks
You know how to tell you are living in a communist state? Everything is against the law. We now live in a society that almost everything is some kind of infraction.
Wait, WHAT?!
I thought that we would all live forever if we gave Al Gore and his buddies enough money to stop climate change.