Posted on 08/25/2021 3:57:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the midst of a panic, we sell our freedom cheaply; the big trick is getting it back again.
If you reside in Sydney, your limit of movement is some two miles from home. For outdoor exercise, your limit is one hour a day. Live in the state of Victoria? There are five approved reasons for going beyond your property. The one visitor you’re allowed is an “intimate partner or a nominated person.” Weddings are forbidden, unless for “end of life or other exceptional circumstances.” Have a pet in the State of Queensland? Indoors you may keep it mentally stimulated by playing fetch games in a room, teaching it a new obedience trick, or using a “treat dispenser toy.” Perhaps you were a locked-down Englishman who liked to walk the dog. Members of the household could take it for multiple walks but pity the dog and you alone at home: no more than one walk a day. Or perhaps you attended a synagogue in South Africa. You were warned not to sing into your mask; none but the cantor had permission to do that.
It took a pandemic to learn that human frailties are infinite. North and south, east and west, people of every hue and culture found liberty to be a burden and safety an abiding obsession. It opened the door for authorities to step in with regulations that make material for stand-up comedy.
In effect, we barter liberty in return for some safety. In this give-and-take, a plumber and a professor act with one instinct, as do a rap artist and a rabbi. People may barter the two at different rates, yet all consent to exchange liberty for safety.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The leftists will pounce on any excuse to gain power and control. They don’t let any crisis go to waste.
Ask Karen.
Good piece. I found these 2 quotes notable:
“A founding father of America, Hamilton put a finger on a human condition wider than America and deeper than its lakes: “Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of conduct” and the quest for safety will finally compel people “to destroy their civil and political rights.””
(C.S.Lewis)”A tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
It’s fun to write about it in the third person, as if it’s all just happening to work out this way.
Globally?
This is all far too organized. The governments of these countries are in agreement with each other and in gleeful support of a press that would help build their own ovens.
bkmk
The usual garbage from the surrender monkeys at American Thinker.
American Thinker presents unlimited problems and offers not a single solution.
// (C.S.Lewis)”A tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
I have long thought that this Lewis quote is one of the most insightful that I’ve ever read. It really does explain a lot of how things work.
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