Can you count how many ways the government manipulates people to
be the type of citizen they can easily control?
I think that would be impossible to come up with an actual
number when every facet of government is dedicated to shaping the citizen in
ways contrary to his or her nature.
It ranges from tax credits for having kids to increased welfare
for being a single mom; from subsidies for growing corn to mandates to
eradicate invasive species. The government is changing citizens’ behavior with
incentives and disincentives, which destroys the natural spontaneous order
society would otherwise fall into.
The government has basically turned society into a pinball
machine which bounces citizens from here to there, taking away control of their
destiny. And then, they use their own coercion as an example of why we need
more coercion: because people cannot control their own outcomes in life!
Governments and corporations alike know that the best way to
mold a person is to start in childhood.
That is
why children younger than 6 are being prescribed anti-depressants by the
government health care system in Great Britain. Almost 200,000 prescriptions
for antidepressants are handed out to children under 18 in Great Britain,
almost 13,000 of which go to kids from 7-12 and over 600 go to children under 6
years old!
Yet as disconcerting as these
figures are, the UK isn’t the first country to have them. In 2009, five deaths
have already been linked to antidepressants in Australian children aged 10 to
19; moreover, 89 recorded adverse reactions in children under nine were
associated with antidepressants. Dr. Joe Tucci, Chief Executive of the Australian Childhood Foundation, said: “I cannot think
of a good reason why any six-year-old, or younger, should be treated with
antidepressants. I think it’s gone up because medication is being used to treat
the symptoms and not the cause.”
The actual cause is where the story starts. Why are children so
young depressed?
Coercion is arguably the leading cause of
all mental health issues. In modern society, children start to feel this
coercion as soon as they are born into a society shaped like a cattle pen.
Increasing suicide attempts by children are concentrated around
the times when school is in session. The unnatural environment in which they
are placed causes extreme stress for many children. The “well-adjusted” ones
take to the authority like good sheep, and everyone else gets loaded up with
drugs to make them a better citizen.
Later in life, a good citizen will take this lesson to heart.
Don’t feel like you fit in? Not happy with your job, spouse, environment?
Anxiety, depression, helplessness, anger over things that you cannot control
because you feel forced into a life you don’t want?
Drugs. Do illegal drugs and enrich the CIA (and give the
government an option to lock you up if they want), or do legal drugs and enrich
the government connected pharmaceutical corporations.
It is,
however, encouraging to see an increase in home-schooling in the USA, (which
could actually be inadvertently fueled by forced vaccination for any
children attending public school). About 40 years ago, 40 million
children attended public school and under 100,000
were homeschooled. By 2005 48 million children attended public school, and a
whopping 2 million were being homeschooled.
Parents who raise their kids to not blindly follow authority are
doing a great service. It is tempting for parents to snap, “Because I said so!”
to children, but it is better to explain why the rules are what they are
whenever possible.
The kids rewarded in school are the ones best at following
directions, and the teacher always hates the kid that asks why they have to do
what they are told when it doesn’t make any sense. I once had to write a letter
home because I didn’t wear my coat at recess. My parents responded by letting
the teacher know that at the age of 12, my nerve endings had developed enough
so that I could choose if a coat was necessary while running around in
50-degree temperatures for 15 minutes.
But police do the same thing to adults conditioned by the public
school system.
If you get pulled over or are otherwise unfortunate enough to
come into contact with the police, your life is literally in serious danger if
you do not immediately and obediently follow all their orders, even when they
have no legal standing to make those demands. Moving your hands out of site,
asking why you are being arrested, or simply not hearing or understanding an
officer are all offenses worthy of execution in the United States.
The teachers and police who expect blind obedience simply
because they are an authority figure are programming the same thing into
citizens: that the state must be obeyed, or there will be consequences.
And this same philosophy of shaping the citizen is seen
everywhere to varying degrees and molded for different types of people. The
newest trend is to police thought crimes by claiming that hate speech is not
protected free speech. If you offend anyone, you have committed a crime, if you
have a contrary opinion, it is fake news, if you desire any internet privacy,
you are probably a terrorist.
Great Britain is especially intense on their push to socialize
the citizens to behave exactly as the government wishes. The National Health
Institute has been key to drugging up kids and programming the citizens to let
the government choose when citizens live or die.Individuals must purchase
licenses to watch television, and the government is super serious about
ferreting out anyone without a license.
But without the little things, people would never have slipped
to the point of letting the government decide who will get lifesaving medical
procedures and who will be waitlisted to death.
One of
these little things is that individuals must purchase licenses to watch television, and the
British government is super serious about ferreting out anyone without a
license.
Why do they make such a big deal about something so small?
Because it trains the citizens to do exactly as they are told, and not bother
with any pushback. It ingrains the idea that the state can and should regulate
every facet of human behavior.
It is like the old marketing trick, where if you get someone
used to saying yes, they will keep saying yes when you ask if they want to buy.
And of
course, China has already gone full blown 1984 with their social credit
system to regulate the behavior of citizens by taking away rights and extending
privileges based on a citizenship score which takes into account what your
neighbors think of you, what you say about the government online, and how
involved in social life you are.
But the most extreme examples are only possible because for so
long people have accepted the government’s authority to regulate the little
things. Seatbelt laws, required permits, and even complying with the TSA for
illegal searches are all ways that are more about control than keeping you
safe.
That is why it is important to push back at every little rule
and regulation, and question every authority. People may think you are making a
big deal about nothing, but unless you push back on the little things, you will
be unable to resist when it comes to the important issues.
