The Free Everything From Government Plague

Posted: 12/7/2018

Trigger

Yesterday, I saw the news (German language) that rich, small Luxembourg is offering now free public transportation to its citizens.

In the U.S. calls for free Medicare for all, free college tuition, free Internet etc. are heard more often.

Similar demands are voiced in other Western democracies.

A Very Contagious And Dangerous Plague

Over history humans got rid of most plagues of the past, but this plague of more free services and goods provided by government persists and spreads. These are signs of serious decadence and a grand delusion! Free everything has become an addiction! Especially, younger people appear to be attracted by this sweet Siren song!

Abundance of material well being; largely freedom from hunger, material suffering and poverty; and long absence of war times in Western societies for the past several decades has laid the the fertile ground for utopian ideas.

This plague has the power to undermine the achievements of Western Civilization. Big Government tyranny is looming if this plague is allowed to spread further. A government that can give a citizen everything, can take everything.

Combine this free everything from government plague with increasing demands for universal, unconditional basic income and you have the perfect combination for decline and doom!

Will the people resist this great temptation of or longing for cornucopia and paradise!

Lance Armstrong - A Pyrrhic Victory By The Anti Doping Crusaders

 Prior Blog Posts On This Subject

I wrote previously about Lance Armstrong (here, here) and Doping.

Armstrong Finally Confessed

Now so many people came out in the media to say what a miserable character Mr. Armstrong is after he confessed in public having taken performance enhancing drugs etc.

A Pyrrhic Victory By The Anti Doping Zealots

To summarize what I have written before the Anti Doping Crusaders had zeroed in and targeted this superstar of bicycling for many years. They were out there to set an example. Given the presumed widespread use of doping in professional bicycling and being targeted by anti doping zealots, I kind of understand Mr. Armstrong’s position of denial.

Anti Doping Is A Grand Delusion

Like Prohibition! Humans have always tried to improve their performance by whatever means in order to achieve their goals or to be more competitive. Humans don’t take it well when they are being told to change their lives by an authority.

We expect professional athletes to be flawless role models. We expect them to compete pure and untainted like Adam and Eve. We idealize them like the Noble Savage.

What Is Wrong With Doping?

Provocatively, I would say nothing as long as performance enhancing is done voluntary and by mutual consent of adults under the rule of law.

We all may very well one day benefit when athletes reasonably experiment with performance enhancement.

Human Bodies & Brains Will Go Far Beyond Biological Evolution

I expect tremendous changes coming to the human body and brain beginning in a few years as we continue our journey of unprecedented exponential scientific and technological advances. Human bodies and brains will soon be unrecognizable compared to what nature and biological evolution provided in the past.