Ever wonder why we have one alarm after another paraded before us? You know things like global warming, global cooling, acid rain, ice caps melting, pollution, reactor melt down, bad air? H.L. Mencken had this to say:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populous alarmed and hence clamorous and to be led to safety by threatening them with an endless series of hobgoblins everyone imaginary.
Why all this? It’s so we will be happy to be controlled, happy to be “protected and safe,” to surrender our children to foreign wars, and to say goodbye to our wealth.
As Floy Lilley quoted, “The correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing.”
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