There is nary any human activity that is not licensed, permitted, or otherwise controlled by bureaucratic experts.
We in the modern United States also live in the most subsidized period of human history. Feel entitled to something you’ve not produced or earned? Chances are higher than ever before that those in government will take money from others to pay for or provide what you want.
We in the modern United States live in the most politically correct period of identity politics, ever. Almost everyone is praised and celebrated for personal idiosyncrasies beyond their control, such as their skin color, sexual preferences, & cultural heritage.
Today, you can be “proud” of something for which you have no
responsibility and which requires no effort, talent, time, or
intelligence. (At the same time, if you are responsible, work hard,
become creative, and produce too much, earn too much, you’re likely to
be shamed, publicly, and branded as “greedy.”)
Marriages are easier to get into, and out of, than ever before. And for every uncaring parent and every abused or neglected child or spouse, there are multiple government programs available and armies of bureaucrats ready to intervene while claiming they “care.”
In short, modern Americans are more “progressive” than ever before. Their lives are controlled, regulated, subsidized, supervised, and centrally planned by bureaucratic experts, down to the playground equipment upon which children play during planned, well-researched, expert-approved “play times.”
Never before in American history have so many been held responsible for so little.
And, depression, suicides, and mass, random murders are at an all time high in the United States. This was true before governments started closing everything in 2020 in the name of a virus. Since governments starting closing things, these and other social pathologies have become worse.
The problem is more than mere partisanship. Rates of depression, suicides, and mass random murders have been increasing when Democrats control our big, central planning, progressive government, and when Republicans control it.
The problem is also more than mere injustice. Human beings always have the capacity for injustice because they have free will. Human beings have always found ways to hurt other human beings. And, still, in some conditions human injustices and social pathologies increase in frequency, in other conditions they decrease.
There is something rotten and rotting, here and now, among us, with us, quite likely created by us as we’ve created the very “progressive” world in which we now live. Time to take a long, hard, honest look at how we live, how we think, how we speak—time to question our own premises and study the incentivizes and disincentives we create for others through our choices and actions.
Marriages are easier to get into, and out of, than ever before. And for every uncaring parent and every abused or neglected child or spouse, there are multiple government programs available and armies of bureaucrats ready to intervene while claiming they “care.”
In short, modern Americans are more “progressive” than ever before. Their lives are controlled, regulated, subsidized, supervised, and centrally planned by bureaucratic experts, down to the playground equipment upon which children play during planned, well-researched, expert-approved “play times.”
Never before in American history have so many been held responsible for so little.
And, depression, suicides, and mass, random murders are at an all time high in the United States. This was true before governments started closing everything in 2020 in the name of a virus. Since governments starting closing things, these and other social pathologies have become worse.
The problem is more than mere partisanship. Rates of depression, suicides, and mass random murders have been increasing when Democrats control our big, central planning, progressive government, and when Republicans control it.
The problem is also more than mere injustice. Human beings always have the capacity for injustice because they have free will. Human beings have always found ways to hurt other human beings. And, still, in some conditions human injustices and social pathologies increase in frequency, in other conditions they decrease.
There is something rotten and rotting, here and now, among us, with us, quite likely created by us as we’ve created the very “progressive” world in which we now live. Time to take a long, hard, honest look at how we live, how we think, how we speak—time to question our own premises and study the incentivizes and disincentives we create for others through our choices and actions.
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