Back in the '80s I predicted that government would use medicare as a vector for seizing power over our persons, as in our personal bodies, and that eventually through vectors like criminalization of tobacco and allegedly unhealthy foods like bacon, they'd effect ever greater control of our persons.
Today tobacco is approaching complete prohibition, and I still suspect that prediction is coming true. I envisioned 'sniffer' equipped vans roaming the streets seeking for the chemical signatures of frying bacon and summoning swat teams to burst in on people enjoying healthy breakfasts and carting them off for a term of indentured servitude, for their safety, of course. While that hasn't happened yet, there is seemingly a war on meat ongoing, and mandatory vaccination sure does seem to be ontrack to bring that future in which our bodies are their possessions, to manage at their sole option.
Thankfully, the bacon sniffing swat teams haven't eventuated - yet.
Back in the '80s I predicted that government would use medicare as a vector for seizing power over our persons, as in our personal bodies, and that eventually through vectors like criminalization of tobacco and allegedly unhealthy foods like bacon, they'd effect ever greater control of our persons.
Today tobacco is approaching complete prohibition, and I still suspect that prediction is coming true. I envisioned 'sniffer' equipped vans roaming the streets seeking for the chemical signatures of frying bacon and summoning swat teams to burst in on people enjoying healthy breakfasts and carting them off for a term of indentured servitude, for their safety, of course. While that hasn't happened yet, there is seemingly a war on meat ongoing, and mandatory vaccination sure does seem to be ontrack to bring that future in which our bodies are their possessions, to manage at their sole option.
Thankfully, the bacon sniffing swat teams haven't eventuated - yet.