Acntually China puts safty above all and uses it to justify its policies. Now everywhere is video surveilance...
Globally people have more work and less real enjoyment of life. One of the reasons is that people create fake needs over actual ones, and giver government authority to emphasis safety.
Playgrounds were invented to give children a place to play that would at the same time present some real danger. Children would be injured and learn to live with pain and adversity, although inflicted in an environment in which the actual danger was limited. But I had no idea they looked like that! LOL
Courage is fear management. No truly fearless person has courage, just a dulled sense of self-preservation.
I sincerely believe that one of the reasons why governments around the world have dug their heels in about the COVID narrative is because the same tactics and techniques they used to promote it have been/are being used to promote the climate change narrative. They're deathly afraid that if the former collapses, people will recognized the parallels and the latter will collapse as well.
Gummi, I think your thesis could be broadened such that the root cause of safetyism and other societal afflictions is an immature lack of ability to weigh the costs of other variables and to just hyperfocus on just the benefits of one issue. For example, an over-focus on climate change leads to "climatism" or "Earthism" which never weighs the impact of resulting poverty, higher energy costs, food scarcity, etc. Over-focus on environment leads to "environmentalism" that doesn't weigh the costs of less farmland, higher food costs, less energy availability, water scarcity, etc. "Immigrationism" is the sole focus on the dignity of the illegal immigrant without weighing the damage that unchecked immigration does to crime, real estate scacity and values, overburdened schools, jobs scarcity and wages, etc. An over-focus on the deaths of police encounters leads to "Police Defundism" that immaturelyl doesn't consider the costs of less safety for all, and unintended consequences of more crime and deaths. People want solutions to be simple and therefore ignore the costs.
Like the other commenters, I agree it’s lawyers and insurance. I have a personal story that is so insane but revealing. A local Probate judge in my home town ruled that an old woman with dementia should have her feeding tube removed and slowly waste away (at the request of her husband). The woman’s daughter was smuggling food into the facility and secretly feeding her mother by hand. The judge after finding that out barred the daughter from visiting her mother and actually wrote in his ruling that the reason she couldn’t feed her mother was the liability in case her mother choked (the woman they were starving to death might choke).
This was brought on by an unwillingness to reform our civil tort laws. Instead we commoditized the problem with insurance. Insurance companies dictate how your children play. The activities you can partake in and even laws that are passed.
In case you didn't run across him in your Global Warming research, for a full understanding of the climate panic hoax, you must include Tony Heller's work.
If you're just beginning, see the top section of his home page. There are archived posts, organized by issue, eg: Doubling the Hockey Stick Fraud; Erasing America's Hot Past, etc.
Tony leads the work revealing the government labs' changing actual temperature data--both current data, and historical data. His analysis revealed their changes always cool the past and warm the present.
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
I no longer trust the government, any corporations, nor anyone who enforced the tyranny. We should all make lists of people we wish to cut out of our lives and avoid from now on.
I recall my kids being taught at school on how to cross the road. Stop for red man, walk for green man.
Me being an immigrant in Denmark, looked for on-coming cars and if no cars walked over road with them chanting the school narrative - 'the man is red!!'
I taught them, and I'm proud they still practice it, that I'd rather they looked for cars and walked over for red, than that they didn't look, and walked over for green.
And btw, in this country you get fined when crossing roads showing incorrect colours - safety is "guaranteed" by the state, no need to think for yourself.
And yes, people are killed when crossing roads showing correct colours!
I am in my mid 40s. Raised similar to you although my mom was a housewife so she picked us up from school, took us home, gave us a snack then turned us loose.
Here's the question I can't answer - why did our generation become so "safety first" as parents?
Did bad stuff happen to them as kids? Did they long for more parental supervision? Too much "Unsolved Mysteries" on TV? <- this last one is a joke, sort of.
Safety is an illusion. Risk evaluation and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is what that problem is. People have decided to DITCH PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY! Hence - we have liberalism. It is a creeping mental illness or flaw of the personality - to always be a baby to be coddled.
"panic early something something fat tails" some Taleb guy who went all in on panic early over panic later. Which having bought into skin in the game I was sure he was right, because, it seemed to make sense... now i see it as the attack vector it is.
Acntually China puts safty above all and uses it to justify its policies. Now everywhere is video surveilance...
Globally people have more work and less real enjoyment of life. One of the reasons is that people create fake needs over actual ones, and giver government authority to emphasis safety.
Playgrounds were invented to give children a place to play that would at the same time present some real danger. Children would be injured and learn to live with pain and adversity, although inflicted in an environment in which the actual danger was limited. But I had no idea they looked like that! LOL
Courage is fear management. No truly fearless person has courage, just a dulled sense of self-preservation.
I sincerely believe that one of the reasons why governments around the world have dug their heels in about the COVID narrative is because the same tactics and techniques they used to promote it have been/are being used to promote the climate change narrative. They're deathly afraid that if the former collapses, people will recognized the parallels and the latter will collapse as well.
Gummi, I think your thesis could be broadened such that the root cause of safetyism and other societal afflictions is an immature lack of ability to weigh the costs of other variables and to just hyperfocus on just the benefits of one issue. For example, an over-focus on climate change leads to "climatism" or "Earthism" which never weighs the impact of resulting poverty, higher energy costs, food scarcity, etc. Over-focus on environment leads to "environmentalism" that doesn't weigh the costs of less farmland, higher food costs, less energy availability, water scarcity, etc. "Immigrationism" is the sole focus on the dignity of the illegal immigrant without weighing the damage that unchecked immigration does to crime, real estate scacity and values, overburdened schools, jobs scarcity and wages, etc. An over-focus on the deaths of police encounters leads to "Police Defundism" that immaturelyl doesn't consider the costs of less safety for all, and unintended consequences of more crime and deaths. People want solutions to be simple and therefore ignore the costs.
Like the other commenters, I agree it’s lawyers and insurance. I have a personal story that is so insane but revealing. A local Probate judge in my home town ruled that an old woman with dementia should have her feeding tube removed and slowly waste away (at the request of her husband). The woman’s daughter was smuggling food into the facility and secretly feeding her mother by hand. The judge after finding that out barred the daughter from visiting her mother and actually wrote in his ruling that the reason she couldn’t feed her mother was the liability in case her mother choked (the woman they were starving to death might choke).
This was brought on by an unwillingness to reform our civil tort laws. Instead we commoditized the problem with insurance. Insurance companies dictate how your children play. The activities you can partake in and even laws that are passed.
In case you didn't run across him in your Global Warming research, for a full understanding of the climate panic hoax, you must include Tony Heller's work.
His blog is:
https://realclimatescience.com/
If you're just beginning, see the top section of his home page. There are archived posts, organized by issue, eg: Doubling the Hockey Stick Fraud; Erasing America's Hot Past, etc.
Tony leads the work revealing the government labs' changing actual temperature data--both current data, and historical data. His analysis revealed their changes always cool the past and warm the present.
Highly recommended.
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller
All this "safetyism" makes me feel very unsafe.
I no longer trust the government, any corporations, nor anyone who enforced the tyranny. We should all make lists of people we wish to cut out of our lives and avoid from now on.
I recall my kids being taught at school on how to cross the road. Stop for red man, walk for green man.
Me being an immigrant in Denmark, looked for on-coming cars and if no cars walked over road with them chanting the school narrative - 'the man is red!!'
I taught them, and I'm proud they still practice it, that I'd rather they looked for cars and walked over for red, than that they didn't look, and walked over for green.
And btw, in this country you get fined when crossing roads showing incorrect colours - safety is "guaranteed" by the state, no need to think for yourself.
And yes, people are killed when crossing roads showing correct colours!
I am in my mid 40s. Raised similar to you although my mom was a housewife so she picked us up from school, took us home, gave us a snack then turned us loose.
Here's the question I can't answer - why did our generation become so "safety first" as parents?
Did bad stuff happen to them as kids? Did they long for more parental supervision? Too much "Unsolved Mysteries" on TV? <- this last one is a joke, sort of.
Safety is an illusion. Risk evaluation and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is what that problem is. People have decided to DITCH PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY! Hence - we have liberalism. It is a creeping mental illness or flaw of the personality - to always be a baby to be coddled.
"panic early something something fat tails" some Taleb guy who went all in on panic early over panic later. Which having bought into skin in the game I was sure he was right, because, it seemed to make sense... now i see it as the attack vector it is.