It ain’t paranoia if they really are picking on you....
There has been a largely unprovoked but sustained attack on most of the world I once knew, and expected to continue to be available to my old age and coming generations.
But any rights we used to enjoy have been severely truncated, or ignored altogether, with an ever-encroaching demand that subservience is the “highest good”. Oh, it is coached, at first, in making things “safer”, or “better”, for the individual, but as each facet of personal decision-making is given up, there is no recourse when the subject that has already been decided FOR you, proves to be not at all in personal best interests.
To dare to challenge the “new normal” is to risk being incarcerated, heavily fined, or worse. The name of that option is called “civil disobedience”, but ultimately, it is the last weapon of the desperate and those for whom all hope has been dashed.
The dawn of the “urban guerrilla” warfare against what was once the government to whom you had sworn allegiance, only to find they had changed all the rules while you slept.
Time for a “Redeclaration of Independence”. Shouldn’t be too hard to update the language.
My thoughts exactly, alloy steel.
I have been annoyed for some time with the seeming fixation of people these days with “safety”.
Every newscast is loaded with stories about safety -— what laws are being proposed to “make you safer”; what products are being recalled because they might not be safe enough; how you should hide in the basement to be safe during a possible thunderstorm.
People no longer tell a departing guest “Good-bye”; now, it’s “Safe travels.”
We no longer wish each other a happy holiday ... It’s now, “Have a SAFE and happy holiday.”
I used to see the insurance industry’s hand in all this.
That might not be the case, though.
After all, how does a courageous (and, therefore, formidable) opposition arise from a populace that has been taught to value “safety” above all else?
Just sayin’