The Government Shepherd?
Sack them all.
Alexis de Tochueville (1805-1859) when writing on the Democracy in America, foresaw a society that would demonstrate the tendencies of the left hemisphere - to constrict everything, though bureaucracy and servitude, to maintain control, order and utility. It would keep its people happy by keeping them as children and the State would be the sole parent and arbiter of their happiness, wield all authority, and know no wrong.
“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things; it has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
Doesn’t this sound like where we are going on a global scale? The technocrats being the Great Shepherd of we, the children (because we don’t know how best to manage ourselves) who are but a flock of timid and industrious animals?
As they are saying in Canberra, Australia today… “Sack them all!”
Indeed, sack them all, charge them all, mandate they ALL get the jab (as they are all exempt) discriminate against them all. How could they object to being on the receiving end of their own decisions which apparently are all about keeping everyone safe. That way we truly will ALL be in this together.
Love the sight of those crowds.