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This year has been extraordinary. Americans have been ordered to lockdown, mask up, stay at home, avoid their loved ones, and otherwise suffer in the vain hope of controlling the coronavirus. The fruit of these efforts has been mostly needless suffering. When core freedoms were infringed, millions thrown out of work, and government power multiplied, things remained orderly. ...At home, as elsewhere, liberty is more endangered by gradual diminution than when it is taken all at once. People are rather adaptable. Part of the American people’s recent quiescence comes from their lack of economic independence. Over the last 100 years or so, we went from a nation of small farmers and shopkeepers to a nation of employees. The higher-paid employees are the managers. But all of their jobs depend upon the system—that is, on others. ...We sometimes look at the history of oppressive regimes and wonder why people didn’t revolt. Now we know. They had mortgages and rent payments and jobs and kids. They didn’t want to jeopardize their own or their family’s comfort and status. Oppressive regimes don’t have to throw people in jail for the most part—taking away their livelihoods is enough to keep them in line. In this sense, the recent coronavirus restrictions are a more severe form of the unwritten rules we have become used to that go by the umbrella term “political correctness.†...
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Topic: No Bread, No Circuses, No Problem (Read 92 times)
