Posted on 03/12/2021 4:15:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
If you think our current nanny state is there to look out for you and make sure you are safe, you’ve got a problem. The actual message of our helicoptering elite is that we are not to be trusted; we are unreliable, discountable, and our “nannies” know better. We’re simply naive children who must be led, watched over, and protected — from ourselves. We must cede self-determination, and everything’s gonna be okay. We may not have anything anymore if we give up things like our self-respect, a way to earn a living, and our sovereign country, but it’ll be worth it because they’ll take care of us all.
There are many ways this warped relationship manifests. All cancel culture would come under the umbrella that the nanny (in this case a combo of state, media, and tech oligarchy) knows best. Our delicate eyes and ears can’t be trusted to assess what we see and hear and come to the “correct” conclusions; they must do it for us, leading lead us by the nose ring, as it were.
Where we were once taught to say, “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” and to think for ourselves and defend our positions, we now are treated as a bunch of delicate blooms who must be shielded from damage by the mis-think of others, specifically, others who don’t uphold the progressive ethos. We must be shielded from our own bad thoughts (presumably “conservative” ones) and shielded from any opinion that’s not congruent with the state group-think.
Mask mandates, and many other COVID safeguards too, fit the definition. The State knows better than you whether you need to protect others from your germs.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think the mask mandates are a way to brainwash people into thinking that they are dirty and dangerous to others. A way to make people feel that they are responsible for the COVID infections. China is shielded from any blame. There are leftist politicians who do not want the mask mandates to go away....never.
They aren’t masks.
They’re muzzles.
The all-knowing Government will pretend to keep you safe if you will just give up all your liberties.
Masks = Propaganda Feedbags.
They don’t just want our liberties.
They want our lives.
In service to our so-called public servants.
Forevermore.
To Hell with THAT.
The second hand smoke hoax was the precursor to all of this.
The “nanny state” is nothing more than a giant HOA but with guns and CC&R’s that give it the power of life, death and liberty over the it’s members.
That’s for damn sure!
the title of this article is tagline worthy
Home Owners’ Association?
“we are not to be trusted; we are unreliable, discountable, and our “nannies” know better.”
Such as knowing what substances adults should be allowed to ingest.
I’ve struggled for years to understand the “Leftist Head,” and by extension, the “Rightist Head.”
Democrat - Republican doesn’t adequately explain it.
Liberal vs. Conservative works a little better, but there are too many shades and exceptions, and too many self-mislabeling, often deceptively, for that to be reliable.
Right Wing - Left Wing (usually packaged with the term ‘extremist,’ is too charged to be descriptive.
Then, I read an article on FR that, in part, suggested the real Thought Axis was “Individualist,” versus “Collectivist.”
The more I ponder this, the more sense it makes. Personally, I’m an individualist — “The Citizen is the Sovereign.
Collectivists often favor banning CrimeThink, and Crimepeak.
I just change the channel, or put the book I don’t like down.
There’s also a note of Dominating Authority-ism to the Left, but Rightinst just want to be left alone.
Dominators — control freaks — are aggressive. Rather than change the channel, hey want to revoke the license of the offending broadcaster, for example. “They ought to make a law,” they will too-often say.
I don’t see compromise as possible because of the meddlesome and domineering style of the Collectivist.
I fleshed this out a bit more. Written or another blog, Maybe this is useful:
I’ve struggled for years to understand the “Leftist Head,” and by extension, the “Rightist Head.”
Just one example: Leftists approve of birth control by abortion, and disapprove of capital punishment — at the same time. Rightists more often think capital punishment (execution) fits some extreme cases, but condemn abortion. Now, either Life is extremely valuable, or it isn’t.
The State (or “The Power Structure) either has discretion over life and death, or it doesn’t. Both
positions are self-contradictory.
When you consider this further, you may realize that for the most part, there are two complete “sets” of political beliefs. As an example, once you know what anybody’s attitude is on capital punishment, you almost always can predict how they stand on abortion — and most other issues. There are many other examples of this “complete set of ideas” thinking.
Democrat - Republican doesn’t adequately explain it.
Liberal vs. Conservative works a little better, but there are too many shades and exceptions, and too many self-mislabeling opportunists, often speaking deceptively, for that to be reliable.
Right Wing - Left Wing (often packaged up with the propaganda term ‘extremist,’ is too emotionally charged to be usefully descriptive.
Then, I read an opinion article that, in part, suggested the real Thought Axis was “Individualist,” versus “Collectivist.”
The more I ponder this, the more sense it makes. Personally, I’m an individualist — “The Citizen is the Sovereign.” That’s what I like about The Constitution, as written. (And, as illuminated by other ancillary writings and essays of the times published when, and as, it was written.)
Collectivists often favor banning ideas that could be called CrimeThink, and CrimeSpeak — expressions of things they disagree with. To a Collectivist, some ideas and some speech can be physically dangerous — just the words and ideas, NOT the physical acts they might suggest.
I just change the channel, or put down a book I don’t like. Collectivists want to ban, burn it,
or remove its viability by delegitimizing or delicensing it. “If that idea frightens me, then NOBODY should be exposed to it!”
There’s also a note of Dominating Power Authority-ism — force — to the Left, but Rightists mostly just want to be left alone.
Dominators — control freaks — are aggressive. Rather than change the channel, they want to revoke the license of the offending broadcaster, for example. “They ought to make a law,” they will often say.
I don’t see compromise as possible because of the meddlesome and aggressive domineering style of the Collectivist mind. They simply will not disengage and back off. “Resistance is futile.”
This is what Communists promise: But for them, you are neither safe nor secure. Unfortunately, too many naive people fall for it.
The Commies in the old Soviet Union made the same promises - it took the lives of ≈ 60 million mostly White Christian Russians before the system imploded in upon itself in a heap of lies.
Ja.
In the same vein of differentiation using “individualist” is the grouping of people and assigning harms, rights, remedies and so on, on the basis of group ID.
All of this is divisive in an unhealthy way, and intentionally so.
Each of us is an individual. We work better as a society by dealing with ourselves and each other on that basis. We each have individual strengths and weaknesses.
Not that group ID and prejudice is useless. We all use it, and necessarily so. But when a “serious’ decision is to be made, it should be on an individual, not on his group.
And lots of Karens to rat out "violators"!
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