The scariest thing about COVID is the lack of discussion about our rights, rights we once viewed as being strong. Even in anti COVID circles the term "rights" rarely comes up. In my country at least, civil liberties groups have hardly said a word, when this should be their time to shine. You'll not hear anything about rights in government either, even from protest parties, even though they could potentially gain new voters from it. Discussing rights here should be paramount, even for the most hardcore COVID lovers, because even if you agree with lockdowns, you should still worry about how quickly your rights can be taken from you.
I think the problem is not that most people are stupid or weak, but that they're just not very philosophical. Few people are even thinking about how dangerous it is that the executive branches of virtually every country on the planet have put their constituents under lockdown, with zero approval of the legislature. Why do we even have legislatures at this point? Where is the balance of power? And even worse, most legislatures will happily absolve themselves of their responsibilities here because they don't want the heat that comes with it. Try explaining that to an average person. It's not even on their radar.
It's to the point that in the past few years I've been completely incapable of having a normal conversation with most people. What the fuck do people even talk about now that there's nothing on the fucking television?
It's to the point that in the past few years I've been completely incapable of having a normal conversation with most people. What the fuck do people even talk about now that there's nothing on the fucking television?
Politics are the new celebrity gossip now, and people absorb it just as shallowly as they did the gossip. The founding fathers wanted an informed body politic even at the expense of an open one, but decided against it in the hopes we could have both.
Instead, we've developed the opposite: an extremely active, but uninformed citizenry that blindly follows whatever cause is fashionable for the era.
I'm not a Christian, nor do I go around attacking anyone's religious beliefs, but I always tell my close Christian friends that they are compelled by scripture to be ready to defend their beliefs, and that means devoting time to reading scripture and trying to understand it. If God wrote this book, you should probably be reading it because it's important. Same thing with politics. It has a meaningful impact on your life, you should understand it.
Everyone ignores the things that matter most. I'd say we've "become" complacent, but I think we've always been this way.
The scariest thing about COVID is the lack of discussion about our rights, rights we once viewed as being strong. Even in anti COVID circles the term "rights" rarely comes up. In my country at least, civil liberties groups have hardly said a word, when this should be their time to shine. You'll not hear anything about rights in government either, even from protest parties, even though they could potentially gain new voters from it. Discussing rights here should be paramount, even for the most hardcore COVID lovers, because even if you agree with lockdowns, you should still worry about how quickly your rights can be taken from you.
I think the problem is not that most people are stupid or weak, but that they're just not very philosophical. Few people are even thinking about how dangerous it is that the executive branches of virtually every country on the planet have put their constituents under lockdown, with zero approval of the legislature. Why do we even have legislatures at this point? Where is the balance of power? And even worse, most legislatures will happily absolve themselves of their responsibilities here because they don't want the heat that comes with it. Try explaining that to an average person. It's not even on their radar.
It's to the point that in the past few years I've been completely incapable of having a normal conversation with most people. What the fuck do people even talk about now that there's nothing on the fucking television?
Politics are the new celebrity gossip now, and people absorb it just as shallowly as they did the gossip. The founding fathers wanted an informed body politic even at the expense of an open one, but decided against it in the hopes we could have both.
Instead, we've developed the opposite: an extremely active, but uninformed citizenry that blindly follows whatever cause is fashionable for the era.
I'm not a Christian, nor do I go around attacking anyone's religious beliefs, but I always tell my close Christian friends that they are compelled by scripture to be ready to defend their beliefs, and that means devoting time to reading scripture and trying to understand it. If God wrote this book, you should probably be reading it because it's important. Same thing with politics. It has a meaningful impact on your life, you should understand it.
Everyone ignores the things that matter most. I'd say we've "become" complacent, but I think we've always been this way.