Opus 2025-306: No Thank You

Long before we learned to feel our modern sense of inadequacy, communities were gathering together for mutual protection.  People relied on each other.  It was us against them.  With specialization some eventually excelled in the use of rocks and clubs.  In the age of muscles they became the chiefs and tried to tell everyone else what to do.

As society developed you had city states and eventually feudalism.  In feudalism the local baron was resonsible to keep you safe.  In return you became a serf and worked the land.  Things progressed and eventually we got to relying on the government for protection with standing armies and police forces.  They were there to keep us safe.

Now we’re down to the point where we want the government to protect us from feeling any kind of discomfort in our daily walk.  We have trigger warnings, safe zones and micro-aggressions.  We feel that big brother must keep all snowflakes from melting.

It is all to keep us safe.  Our food comes with nutrition labels and our cars with air-bags.  When you go to the doctor you fill out enough paper to denude a forest.  Think about all the things the government does to keep us safe.  

Be grateful that someone is watching out for you.  Where would you be if you did not have a coffee cup that warns you the contents are hot.  It is frightening beyond the imagination but not as frightening as it is becoming for people who want to live their lives without government regulations.  They become enemies of society because they don’t want to be as safe as the government does.

Sad.

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