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May 24, 2007
Misery Loves Company
Posted by Dave Blount at May 24, 2007 9:01 AM
What is the true point of the endless prohibitions and regulations heaped upon us by nanny state bureaucrats like NYC's Mayor Mike and their PC amen corner, the mainstream media? The global warming hoax and our own health are thin pretexts. Jens Jessen suggests that the real motive could be to make life less pleasant:
Alcohol and tobacco, dogs and fast cars, flights and computer games, television and fast food — everything that is fun, that promises a bit of warmth or distraction and comfort, that bolsters self-confidence or aids in escaping the every-day, even the modest pleasures of the working man are to be limited, regimented, taxed or simply made impossible. The process is disconcerting and almost grotesque in its systematization.
Why don't moonbats want us to have any fun? Possibly because, due to their neurotic, guilty-ridden ideology, they won't let themselves have any:
Anyone who prohibits himself something, for whatever reason or neurosis, doesn't like to see someone else indulging in it. […] That's the most dangerous thing about the spirit of prohibition; once it's out of the bottle, it spreads like an infection whose first casualty is tolerance. Where much is being prohibited, it's easy to prohibit more because the unprohibited is so conspicuous; in the end, the tolerated takes the form of the explicitly permitted. It's wrong, by the way, to see the state or frustrated politicians as the sole cause; the state is no more than the agent of a society living out its dark, censoring, egalitarian basic instincts.
At least the puritans of old prevented society from sliding into decadence. Today's puritans actively seek the decline of Western Civilization, hemming it in so that it can't grow, knowing that when a society stops growing, it starts dying.
On a tip from V the K.
