Command and Unconquered
A little compliance would make fate’s earthly representatives feel appreciated. How are our supervisors supposed to enjoy ordering around us dregs when schemes never turn out properly? It simply must be our fault for not complying with sufficient vigor, as those telling us what to do and how to do so have obviously planned out everything. Let’s let the logical tell us what is faulty with our observational skills, as well.
The downside of commands never occurs to those tossing them about. The ruling class presumes there are absolutely none in a victory for both practicality and empathy. It’s pointless to explain how much currency and energy is squandered on obeying quasi-legal orders, as they’re too busy thinking of new ways to protect us from ourselves. The task is so crucial that there’s no time to involve some legislature. You don’t want another bureaucratic layer, do you?
Foolish self-imposed limits keep us from maximizing wealth. Can’t you dream of life without limitations, you dreadful heathen? Politicians see things you cannot such as unlimited free goods like the economic experts they are. There’s no reason to waste such thorough knowledge of where money comes from on a pedestrian activity like running a business.
Life can be all benefits, according to the most trustworthy salespeople. The same scientific masterminds who think plugging a car into an outlet that functions because of coal makes the air clean think paying people more will make everyone rich. You never would have envisioned such an inspirational plan. How can something hurt the environment that you can’t see? Electric cars are the plant burgers of travel.
The lamest reason to confiscate your autonomy preys upon fear like everything else rational. Clamping down on living is for your safety, proclaim those who never manage to keep you safe. Appealing to the simplest mental reflexes could justify anything, as has been seen since 2020. The third year of frightening you into compliance should bring liberation.
Pretending to not enjoy shutting down humans on a whim was the toughest part. The overarching urge to tell others what to do met with an invisible scourge to create ostensible justification to tell you what you can’t do. An excuse was the most important part for the enemies of rights.
Selling out others is justified by pretending widespread isolation preserves us. The traitorous Vichy allies of Constitution-shredders amongst the populace begged to be kept safe by arrogant elected dolts you wouldn’t trust to water houseplants. Those who made imposing restrictions core to their personalities must pretend they don’t want the crisis to continue.
We can limit limits, as long as you want everyone to die painfully now. Motorists would stop hurting themselves and others if the speed limit five miles per hour. Driving at brisk walking pace only seems like an absurdly extreme example based on scale. The most cunningly invasive politicians operate based on what they can get away with, which is one way to preserve natural rights. Next to deciding which businesses are essential, no theoretical invasion into our days seems that preposterous anymore.
Kind autocrats must justify taking something, not the other way around. But that negates the whole reason they pursued their noble jobs. You can surely appreciate their quandary. Politicians wish we could be dissuaded from the subversive notion that we don’t need to provide a reason for ownership or outlook.
The reason for owning guns begins and ends with because we want them. Free humans and Americans don’t need to prove why we should own any devices, much less ones useful for spooking muggers and tyrants. Criminals never bother with justification.
Learning there are only tradeoffs comes at tremendous cost. Every lunkheaded infiltration into trade is an attempt to evade the simple truth that getting something requires giving something. The pandemic just made inefficiency more efficient. Making said tradeoffs worse by pretending they don’t exist is a tradition that should be abandoned like celebrating the end of Thanksgiving by brawling for Christmas gifts in Walmart aisles. At least one results in a transaction.
Damage is never calculated for what’s allegedly in your benefit. Each capricious diktat causes tremendous damage that is shrugged off by those in power who coincidentally aren’t suffering from psychological stress of attempting to comply with contemporary pharaohs who issue decrees on whims would be tricky enough were they not universally inconsistent dopes.
Power consumers capriciously imposing agony couldn’t torture more effectively if they tried. While many contemporary politicians seem sadistic, they’re not good at planning ahead, which makes it unlikely they’re deliberately imposing harm. You can judge if inadvertently-inflicted agony is better during brief moments of respite.
Claiming there’s no drawbacks when it’s nothing but is inadvertently on brand. Taking rights to protect you works out like you’d think, unless you thought you’d be as safe as you are content. Pretending we get ahead puts us behind. It’s hard to laugh ruefully while bracing for rather humorless edicts.
