When Margaret Thatcher said “We don’t want the Nanny State” all those rotting years ago, it became a buzzword. “We” was the operative word; never mind who “we” might be. Never mind if “we” wanted to be included in this drivel.
If you search “nanny state laws” on Google News, you find the expression and its decaying ideology everywhere. If you just search “nanny state”, you get this long, turgid mix of right-wing hack journalism and bizarre editorial policies.
(Conformity and recital of ancient political babble is a sort of handout for people claiming to have opinions who don’t actually have opinions. They just squeak along in tune with the culture of the publishers and the people who own the publishers.)
What is the Nanny State, you ask?
Well, joyfully impoverished current and next foreseeable two or three generations, the Nanny State is an awful thing:
- You get some actual value out of paying your taxes, for example. (You brute!)
- Instead of the wonderful two seconds of happiness you get looking at an egomaniacal politician, you get a school. It’s terrible.
- Instead of those picturesque rivers of feces and effluent, you get a waterway it might be safe to live within ten miles of, without all those adorable serious medical risks.
- Instead of decades of rampant crime, you might even get a bit of peace, It’s really horrible.
- You might be at risk of getting actual information, instead of the rantings of all those nice wealthy psychopaths.
- There might even actually be such things as public health and education if you’re not careful.
- At its absolute worst, you might be actually able to afford something. Well may you shudder.
The beauty of the Nanny State idea
The Nanny State idea came originally from people who have no idea what government is for. (It’s for routine social administration, if you must know, but don’t tell anyone.)
It was invented by people who never pay taxes and didn’t see what they needed a government for, either. It was a bold idea, with the eventual goal of reaching the Scumlit Uplands of the 1970s sometime in the next few thousand years.
The Nanny State was the epitome of everything a few ridiculous incompetent conservative brats didn’t like. Now that they’ve finally had the chance to prove their incompetence, they’re really blossoming, like the decorative hordes of homeless people in some of the richest countries in the world.
Yes, they’re for decorative purposes. Obviously, there’s no social impact in having a few destroyed generations lying around. Nothing proves competence like ensuring people can’t have even the most basic standards of living.
The real beauty of the Nanny State was that you could blame it for everything. Drinkable water and other grievous insults to plutocracy, for example. The theory of fresh air was another abomination caused by the Nanny State. Even more horrible was the strange theory that food should be food, and actually edible. Most shocking of all was the absolutely grotesque Nanny State idea that people might want to be healthy.
Well, they’ve certainly fixed that. Very little is drinkable, breathable or edible. People can now be as sick as they want to be with no risk of adequate health care. Nothing like hacking up your guts to make you understand how important ideology is to human health.
Arguably worse was the Nanny State theory that anyone had any rights. The quick fix for that was polarization, in which everybody else, even family members, are the enemy. I mean, really; imagine a world in which you could get along with anybody else for even a few seconds. It’d be revolting.
You couldn’t even have news sources as publishers of fiction in the Nanny State. How dull. We’d never have had QAnon’s invaluable inputs for all those years. America would be afflicted with sanity, relevance, and perhaps even a decent standard of living. Americans wouldn’t even be able to send their kids to school to be executed by the nutcase of their choice. They wouldn’t even have the opportunity to be told that all those dead kids didn’t happen.
Fortunately, stern, implausible vacuous idiots are on standby, ready to provide a totally non-viable alternative to any sort of rational behavior, anywhere on Earth. The Nanny State must be fought because someone said she didn’t like it back in 1979. You can call it “individualism”, and like her, ignore the fact that there are 8 billion people on this Earth who have to coexist.
Just read the news about the Nanny State. The risk is sanity. Be vigilant. If anything makes sense, it’s dangerous.
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