Liberty for safety
I am not surprised that the American populace is accepting of draconian government restrictions in the name of ‘safety’; however, I am surprised at the vehemence and zealotry of those who believe in its efficacy. A casual examination of any social media cesspool will serve to demonstrate this.
I have listened for years to those bemoaning the social meddling of America’s education system, but only now am I seeing the remarkably advanced metastatic result in the display of the extraordinarily low quality level of critical thinking being applied to the current crisis.
The inestimably wise Robert Anson Heinlein once wrote, “Logic is a feeble reed, friend.”
Privilege check
Seems pretty funny to me (both funny-odd and funny-haha) that some of the most privileged (earned and unearned) people in the world are in the streets protesting the society in which they live that makes it possible to do so.
Should times ever get really tough, I wonder how many will remember ignoring and disparaging their elders reminding them that things could be considerably worse. Clearly, they are unable to see so on their own.
Caught in their own logic trap, they apologize for living in a world where their forebears obviously did more things right than wrong … or both apologizing for and living by the creed that all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.