Great interview! I particularly liked his comments in #4 on "Safety First."
His words reminded me of a quote I had saved.
A pastor named Scott Dudley noted in a sermon how, over the last thirty years, we have created the most risk-averse society in history.
"We are the most seat-belted, bike-helmeted, air-bagged, kneepad-wearing, private-schooled, gluten-freed, hand-sanitized, peanut-avoiding, sunscreen-slathering, hyper-insured, massively medicated, password-protected, valet-parked, security-systemed, inoculated generation in history—and all it has done is make everyone more afraid of everything."
Wonderful. Thank you for posting this! When we were kids in the 1960s we fell out of trees, fractured arms, legs and even one skull, one of us was impaled on a long construction nail, we were bitten by feral dogs, ran across rooftops, leaping from one to the next when "playing army", rode our bikes through clouds of mosquito insecticide sprayed by the City of New York ... and in general lived deliriously unsafe and blissfully unaware of dangers large and small. I'm still here. And nauseated by the cult of safety.
Making us afraid of everything isn’t all the “safety first” culture has done: many of its so-called protections have been distinctly harmful (e.g. sunscreens and sunlight aversion).
Please include in safety first:10 degree sloped roofs (within easy shooting range of a high value political target)as being unsafe areas for Secret Service agents to set up for surveillance of ill intentioned sniper with a rifle and a 20 foot ladder that climb up on to that same roof and shoot at the high value target killing one and injuring others…. Safety first.
Great interview! I particularly liked his comments in #4 on "Safety First."
His words reminded me of a quote I had saved.
A pastor named Scott Dudley noted in a sermon how, over the last thirty years, we have created the most risk-averse society in history.
"We are the most seat-belted, bike-helmeted, air-bagged, kneepad-wearing, private-schooled, gluten-freed, hand-sanitized, peanut-avoiding, sunscreen-slathering, hyper-insured, massively medicated, password-protected, valet-parked, security-systemed, inoculated generation in history—and all it has done is make everyone more afraid of everything."
Wonderful. Thank you for posting this! When we were kids in the 1960s we fell out of trees, fractured arms, legs and even one skull, one of us was impaled on a long construction nail, we were bitten by feral dogs, ran across rooftops, leaping from one to the next when "playing army", rode our bikes through clouds of mosquito insecticide sprayed by the City of New York ... and in general lived deliriously unsafe and blissfully unaware of dangers large and small. I'm still here. And nauseated by the cult of safety.
COVID was brought to you by COSAF (Cult Of SAFety).
Making us afraid of everything isn’t all the “safety first” culture has done: many of its so-called protections have been distinctly harmful (e.g. sunscreens and sunlight aversion).
N-word-protected, as well.
Please include in safety first:10 degree sloped roofs (within easy shooting range of a high value political target)as being unsafe areas for Secret Service agents to set up for surveillance of ill intentioned sniper with a rifle and a 20 foot ladder that climb up on to that same roof and shoot at the high value target killing one and injuring others…. Safety first.