Monday, April 20, 2020

What Bay Area Power Freaks Really Think About the Masses

These two think it is just fine to buy liquor and weed during their power freak show, but not books.

So the executive orders put out by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf allow liquor stores and weed shops to be open as "essential" but bookstores are ordered closed.

That's what Bay Area power freaks think about the masses that they need to fog their minds but aren't allowed to expand them.

 -RW

10 comments:

  1. RW--

    In reality, cannabis dispensaries have been assigned a special designation to remain open in virtually every state that regulates them under state statute. That's over 30 -- many with Republican Governors, like Florida and Iowa: https://blog.norml.org/2020/04/14/more-states-taking-action-to-ensure-uninterrupted-retail-access-to-medical-cannabis-during-covid-19-outbreak/

    I believe that alcohol sales have been permitted in every state during the outbreak.

    I realize that singling out the mayor's of Oakland and San Francisco may seem convenient to the narrative that you wish to put out there, but unfortunately facts in this case get in the way.

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    1. Robert didn’t say anything about whether other states did or did not have open pot shops. His point is, obviously, that tyrants are deciding what people do and don’t need. Our Barnes and Noble is closed, but offer curbside sales. But, booze and weed shops are open for business, and they are letting them offer curbside service now also.

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    2. In Pennsylvania it is not possible to purchase hard alcohol becasue all of the state stores are closed. Ohio and one of the other bordering states won't sell to Pennsylvanians. They are checking driver's licenses.

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  2. It's a Brave New World, Robert. Even evil has a pretty face.

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    1. Pretty? You may want to recalibrate your standards. Go to Asia or slavic countries to see what "pretty" means.

      Ugly nannythugs are ugly.

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  3. Readers might find this comparison of Huxley's "Brave New World" with Orwell's "Nineteen Eight-Four" by the late Neil Postman, from his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, appropriate to our current state of affairs:


    What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that our fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.

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  4. Given the books that are likely available -- I doubt that SF has a Mises Bookstore -- I'd rather the locals buy liquor than books.

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