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This follower of Marx Morks slipped this little ‘note’ into an iPod case—in place of the iPod.
This country, with the bounty that Americans have created, is predicated on certain standards of behavior. If 99% of folks are decent, honest and self-diciplined, things work just fine. Increase that percentage of those with sticky-fingers / those with agendas other than making this outfit run well, and we gots Trouble.
That way lies 3 hour waits for TP while gubbmint “quality control” checkers check the TP for anthrax and propaganda and other gubbmint checkers check on the checkers.
Thing is, gubbmint is, by definition, not actually capable of doing all of this checking. Neither is private industry. If folks aren’t “self-checking” none of this Freedom business is ever gonna work.
But that means returning to the “olden days” when wrong-doers were punished societally—not just legally—with disapproval and even shunning. Understaaanding, excusifying, and toooolerance of victimy whinging is gettin’ us nowhere fast. Free People cannot afford that self-indulgence.
Something else Soviet we’ve been infected by: cultural miserablilsm.
[Apparently this is a not “another isolated incident."]
There’s a lot to be said for the power of shame, something we lately seem to believe is a Bad Thing that our children should be spared from ever feeling because it might damage self-esteem. I’m of the opinion, though, that feeling crappy about yourself because you’ve done something bad is the first step toward developing character.
Posted by Venomous Kate on 12/31/07 at 09:23 AMGuilt and shame are vastly under-rated. Free people must have mechanisms to govern our own behavior.
Gubbmint can’t do it. Even gulags won’t suffice.
Posted by Claire on 01/01/08 at 09:26 AMHow about we start making people wear a big scarlet “I” for idiots?
Posted by Venomous Kate on 01/01/08 at 09:42 AM
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