Comments on: The More Climate Changes the More We’re Screwed http://politicsandpress.com/2007/the-more-climate-changes-the-more-were-screwed/ The interaction of the press and politics; public diplomacy, and daily absurdities. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:09:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Jeff http://politicsandpress.com/2007/the-more-climate-changes-the-more-were-screwed/#comment-194 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:12:20 +0000 http://politicsandpress.com/2007/the-more-climate-changes-the-more-were-screwed/#comment-194 I don't know if the EU is still doing this, but some time ago they were getting involved in telling French how to bake bread, Italians how to cure hams, everyone what defines proper cheese, etc. Build a bureacracy and they will find things to order you to do - or not to do. In Chicago it is against the law to serve foie gras; throughout America it is against the law to drink if you are 20 years old; if you are in a specific high school in Connecticut you cannot put on a play about the Iraq war without passing muster before a kangaroo court of school administrators. If you are a school librarian and purchase a book with the word "scrotum" in it you are liable to be fired. Always these things are done for our own benefit - a benefit that we are not allowed to define ourselves. But Kiwi puts a nice twist on these trends - as they go on, the capitalist right and the authoritarian left will see opportunities for collaboration - likely to the cost of all of us. I don’t know if the EU is still doing this, but some time ago they were getting involved in telling French how to bake bread, Italians how to cure hams, everyone what defines proper cheese, etc. Build a bureacracy and they will find things to order you to do - or not to do. In Chicago it is against the law to serve foie gras; throughout America it is against the law to drink if you are 20 years old; if you are in a specific high school in Connecticut you cannot put on a play about the Iraq war without passing muster before a kangaroo court of school administrators. If you are a school librarian and purchase a book with the word “scrotum” in it you are liable to be fired. Always these things are done for our own benefit - a benefit that we are not allowed to define ourselves.

But Kiwi puts a nice twist on these trends - as they go on, the capitalist right and the authoritarian left will see opportunities for collaboration - likely to the cost of all of us.

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