tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post4697978672642223934..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Meddling and Litigation vs. Rational ParentingGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-80026808887352975592017-07-11T10:33:38.503-06:002017-07-11T10:33:38.503-06:00It does indeed look like the water is getting dang...It does indeed look like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#As_metaphor" rel="nofollow">water</a> is getting dangerously warm.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-45677437094478815132017-07-11T08:57:48.453-06:002017-07-11T08:57:48.453-06:00Ayn Rand once said that our journalism was very mu...Ayn Rand once said that our journalism was very much like that of a country under censorship, despite there being no official censorship. In a lot of ways, this also holds true for how citizens interact with one another. Rather than accepting that people generally operate in good faith, we are actively encouraged to treat everyone as a threat and to report anything to "the authorities". We are informing on each other to the government in the same manner as those in brutal dictatorships--despite living in a society that is ostensibly free! <br /><br />These two data points have me morbidly curious about what other aspects of dictatorship we follow. The use of military tactics against ordinary citizens is commonplace now; outright theft of property by the government (we call it "asset forfeiture") is now openly carried out; we must ask permission to do everything from starting a business to driving--increasingly we must ask permission to do something as basic as repaint our homes! Not to be an alarmist, but the similarities are terrifying. Dinwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06138006602385020048noreply@blogger.com