Crazy Years? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
2nd March 2014
Sarah Hoyt is delightfully dyspeptic.
These aren’t the crazy years. These are the completely insane, run around with your pants on your head, saluting weasels years.
No, listen to me – there is a great mental illness striding the land. Almost everyone is interested in things they shouldn’t give two hoots about. And at least half the people want to live in a society of clones.
Look, I’m not talking just the government. The government is forever sticking its nose in things that logically shouldn’t be of interest to them. Part of the reason I’m so opposed to the governmental take over of our health care is that I know here it will be done with unique American-puritan zeal. And I’m not wrong.
Ayuh.
But that’s something we sort of know about. WHEN hasn’t government taken power it’s not supposed to have, if a people are so supine as to let them? Right – never. And when hasn’t a government initiative gotten insane-silly? Anywhere in the world? Right. Never. I mean, sure, this is a unique American brand in that the things they’re obsessing about is stuff like what you eat and what you drink and whether you might perhaps be having a little mild fun (a bottle of wine a week is mild fun anywhere else in the world) on the side. Which would be okay if they weren’t basing this on the “latest studies” bound to be reversed in a decade. (But ah, once it’s in law, it’s forever.)
True dat.