I have news for Mr. Prager. The dirty little secret of the human condition is that most people would be perfectly content living in a police state because they are emotionally conditioned to have their lives managed by others. This really is part of the human condition.
It’s very sad. There will always be those, however, who will rebel against it because they know the state is not their master. Problem is, it gets very messy. It’s easier to get to a police state than to get out of it.
“... the human condition is that most people would be perfectly content living in a police state because they are emotionally conditioned to have their lives managed by others.”
Our Founders broke that. And America became great.
But our teachers, professors, unionists, Democrats and MSM have been very very busy, for many decades, thwarting our Founders’ ideals and emotionally conditioning us toward a police state.
I’m still amazed by the level of hyperbole and panic that seems to characterize much of what’s being posted here the past week or so.
“America is destroyed” “Police state” “We’ve surrendered all of our liberty”... It’s nonsense. No one is being dragged from their homes for reeducation. No one’s having the doors to their home welded shut so they can’t get out as was done in China. The police are not shooting curfew breakers indiscriminately... If that begins to happen, we should return fire. It goes without saying that we will be breaking their curfew.
Most everyone has been mildly inconvenienced so far. That is all. Your favorite restaurant is closed, (and may never open again). The local barber can’t cut your hair.
When it becomes a life or death matter (if it ever does), YOU are the one responsible for finding a solution for you and your tribe. If you are old and disabled and incapable of providing that solution, then YOU were responsible for training the young men in your tribe, so that THEY can provide a solution. Let’s hope you did.
Having failed to do that, you and yours will likely Darwin out, either in this crisis or in one that hasn’t yet occurred. It’s a shame.
The truth post-coronavirus is the same as the truth pre-coronavirus: The only liberty you’ve ever had is the liberty you exercise. The only things that you own, or ever have, are those things that you can possess and defend. Nothing else is yours, or ever was.
It isn’t that all the people will willingly go into servitude. It’s that so many have already done so, and are therefore unable to function in an environment of change.
That’s the principal reason that so many cry out to “restart the economy now”, and dive head-first into the wilder sort of conspiracy fiction... More of the same servitude they’ve always enjoyed is the only condition they’re equipped to handle.
These people actually believe that some all-powerful “other” controls whether there is an economy or not.
That’s MY opinion anyway.
I visited Chile during Pinochet’s reign. The streets were clean, no graffitti and NO crime. So there is that.
I don’t believe that for a second. You don’t have much faith in Americans. Are you an immigrant?