Posted on 04/27/2005 9:54:07 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
Which do you choose? A way of life in which you are the master of your destiny or one in which virtually all decisions are made for you by one ruling body or another? It’s the classic struggle facing every human on earth. Freedom or control.
Truth be known, there are many who actually choose control. It makes for a well-ordered society with few surprises. In a controlled society, one doesn’t have to make complicated career choices and health care is provided. Community planners decide where housing will be placed. Committees decide what industries are to be allowed and how they will operate.
Watchdogs decide the foods that shall be permitted to eat, to protect our health, of course. Family planners decide the number of children allowed. Those children will be well taken care of every day in public education centers that, not only provide a centrally planned curriculum, but also provide for all physical and mental health needs.
In a controlled society there is no reason for crime because there are no real possessions to steal and no personally owned weapons to threaten bodily harm. The aged have no fears for the future as they are taken care of with government controlled social security accounts. Economic security is promised for a better world as everyone equally sacrifices to help their fellow man. Everything is well organized, peaceful and controlled. Everyone is secure in the knowledge that tomorrow will be just like today.
On the other hand, there is the chaos of what some foolishly call freedom. In such a society, people are fully responsible for their own actions. . . . .
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BTTT!!!
The subtle bias in this article is use of the word 'control,' which has less pleasant connotations than the word 'security.' Freedom and security are the choices. Giving others control over our lives in return for a promise from them that we will be secure in our economic and social lives is the bargain.
As it relates to government, the spectrum runs from liberty at one end and authoritarian at the other end.
Viewed this way, rather than the left/right of liberal/conservative, we see that Republican government is almost as authoritarian as Democratic. Republicans are strong on social control, Democrats are strong on economic control. Both are marching toward authoritarianism albeit at a different pace. The end is the same, unless we take back our liberty, giving up some security (think nanny state) in return for being responsible for the results of our own decisions (think ending victimless crime).
Bump!
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