“The State is based on threat.” [Illuminatus!]
A great many people believe that government is there to “protect and serve.” After all, doesn’t it say that on the sides of the police cars? But the messaging on a package need not conform to its contents. In this case, the message is diametrically opposed to the State’s true intention.
The State wants you to fear.
The more fearful you are, the more power the State will have over you. Yes, some of that fear will be of the State itself: its power to enforce its will upon you and punish those who deviate. Yet most of it will be directed toward other things, particularly your fellow citizens.
Reason presents us with an example this morning:
It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in Fannin County, Georgia. She was then fingerprinted, photographed, and dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
Hours earlier, around noon, Patterson had driven her eldest son to a medical appointment. Her youngest son, 11-year-old Soren, intended to come along but wasn’t around when it was time to leave.
“I figured he was in the woods, or at grandma’s house,” says Patterson, who lives on 16 acres with her kids and her father. (Her husband works out of state). There is no shortage of family in the vicinity. Patterson’s mother and sisters live just two minutes away.
Soren, however, was not playing in the woods. He had decided to walk to downtown Mineral Bluff, a town of just 370 people. It’s not quite a mile from his house. A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.
Nevertheless, she called the police.
Patterson was charged with “child neglect.” Her true crime, in the State’s eyes, was not being fearful enough.
“But he could have been kidnapped, or run over, or anything!” Yes, and you could have a heart attack when you next try to stand up. Your home could be hit by a falling jet engine. You could suffocate because all the air in the room has spontaneously collected in one corner. All those things are possible. So are the terrible things that sometimes happen to children. After all, they do happen.
But there’s a price for straining to avert all those negative possibilities. For generations, parents decided the risks were too small to worry about, and let their children roam their neighborhoods in confidence. Their kids grew up far more self-assured than our most recent generations of young.
Instead, today’s parents are “encouraged” to hover over their kids until well into puberty. The consequences have ranged from deplorable to truly terrible. Worse yet, the most fearful among us have acquired power over parents who’ve managed to remain somewhat sane about the hazards to their young. The unnamed woman who called the police on Brittany and Soren Peterson is an example.
Did you need an explanation for why “our” police seem indifferent to actual crime? You have one now.
I believe the point has been made. Have a nice day.
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It is like a massive HOA and often the police are the “Karens”.
I have long held that training dogs, horses, children and employees is all the same skill set-just applied to different subjects. When we hover (micro-manage) our pupils and do not exhibit trust, we are telling our subjects “you are incompetent”. As this gets reinforced, the incompetence of the subjects grows for all to see. In your article I see how a couple of generations and millions of kids have been denied freedoms, hovered over, micromanaged and coddled to the point that we have people so accustomed to being “managed” that the nanny-state is a welcomed, reassuring surrogate for mommy-dearest. So, as the “war on drugs” manifested more drugs and violence, parents recoiled and became more present, less trusting. And as other manifestations of the commie-borne anarcho-tyranny became more prevalent and the “need” for further government control, authoritarianism, etc, the oppression became and now is palpable for lots and lots of folks. Not normal, sane, grounded folks of course, but it is understandable how the communists/globalists used some of these forces and influences to lead us to the place we are now. Where folks would submit to being injected with outright poison, and then be angry and even violent with those who will not. Where folks will sign up for “saving our democracy” by denying others Constitutional rights. Orwellian.
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You have expressed my convictions exactly.
I’m at a loss to explain how the state of Georgia has changed from a proud southern state to be more like Georgia of the Soviet Union.