Opus 2026-303: Dulling Down as We Dumb Down

I think the subject got started with one of those questions of, “What color car will you want when you are able to drive?”  My granddaughter is only 8 and he father says she cannot date until she is 30 so I don’t know what the point of the discussion was, but she got excited when I mention cars used to come with more than one color of paint.  I never saw anyone get excited before about the idea of two-toned cars.

Life used to have a lot more variety.  Look at the cars coming down the road.  If you took out the black, white and silver there would be plenty of room to drive.  Think about all the sizes of notebook paper you used to be able to choose from.  Remember when shirts came in more than s,m,l and xl?  Remember picking your sleeve length?

It is called progress.  Most items disappear without a whimper.  Others require pages of comment.  They still disappear.  

If you want to see the ultimate expression of this go to East Berlin.  I don’t know if they have learned about colors yet but the city literally looked like a black and white film when I was there before the wall came down.  Socialism produces a drab world.  Government regulation and tax policy destroys competition and choices.  Some unelected administrator decides what choices you should have.  It is like Henry Ford has returned and is again saying, “You can have any color car you want as long as it’s black.”

That is one aspect of Utopia that we don’t think about.  There will always be a color or size that someone has decided it best and that will be the only choice you have.

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