It struck me this morning, as I sat in the my front room with windows open to let the warm spring-like scents into our home, that we will very likely lose. As depressing as that sounds, the reality is even more depressing. Left and right, we are losing our freedoms. It is a common, now almost trite, cry I hear from pundits, preachers, and anti-progressives. The danger they describe seems so very, very unreal. A fantasy not possible in our society. The freedoms we hold dear to our hearts, bestowed upon us by God, are our freedoms. Not something that can be taken from us. How is an earth-loving, totalitarian society that we are being warned of possible in our future?
It begins with the smallest of steps: they. They decide what is good or not good for us to eat. They determine our healthy target weight and what our children should eat. They provide vaccinations and additives to our food and water. They tell us what and how to think in public schooling, now testing our uptake of those ideas so that those of us who prefer to think for ourselves and follow God’s plan are excluded from a traditional path in society. They protect the earth by monitoring our vehicles, telling us when we can have a fire in the fireplace, and when we should bow to the needs of obscure animal species over the needs of people. They tell us how they will govern and when we need to go to war. They even tell us to change our core beliefs to meet the needs of the future they are trying to build. They stifle innovation, restrict trade and commerce, open borders, and even now utilize electonics designed by innovators to monitor and track us. All in the name of bettering us for a future utopia.
I know it sounds really wakko. Crazy. That is what they say when objections to their mandates are raised. They commit all manner of logical fallacy in response to objections and questions. In fact they even lie. Often. They make things up that range from false temperature data, other scientific results, and economic statistics, to rewriting history. And we have been so undereducated and have strayed from our God-given gift of humanity so far that we no longer question. After all, the polar bears.
We simply agree with what they tell us and what they do. Those of us who do not agree are quiet. We allow they to decide and determine our path because we do not want to disagree with misguided and undereducated family and friends and neighbors. We do not want to be singled out and questioned. That is our mistake. We cannot let they decide. We must welcome scrutiny by others. We must speak our minds. That is part of our duty. Otherwise they wins, without a fight and without anyone noticing.
So think the next time you hear someone say, “They found that … is bad for you” and ask the question (out loud): Who is this they and why were they any more capable of deciding for us what to think?
