[meenie]

A variation on this article that does not pertain to education. Being from an older generation, I see an alarming trend toward totalitarian thought. Political corectness is totalitarian in its nature along with most other current issues.

A person or group might have some strange ideas in my younger days but it was felt that they had the right to feel this way if they wanted. Now we criticize and proclaim that they should be forced to do differently.

By advocating that something should be forced upon someone, we each lose a little freedom for we condition ourselves to believe that force is necessary in some cases.

Our officials believe that force must be used to regulate us, even though most regulations do more harm than good. We see it in foreign affairs where nations that do not meet our criteria should be forced to do our bidding, even though our intervention creates more problems than it solves.

The live and let live attitude of freedom is being replaced by the totalitarian attitude of forcing an issue on someone or some region. We will all pay for it in the end when we are forced to submit to the party that will force us to comply. Totalitarianism is alive and well in the US. Freedom is disappearing fast.

[meadsjn]

Yep. The economy is showing that folks aren't believing what they're being told. That's both good and bad. Bad for the markets and the power-elites; good for the folks who are putting on their rain gear and preparing for the coming storm.

Something else to watch for: when the control freaks perceive that something is slipping from their grasps, whether through external forces or internal collapse, they will instinctively tighten their grip.