Tolerance of crime is a luxury belief, one whose prevalence is highly correlated to personal income. This is true everywhere in the world, whether in gated suburbs in America or private armed guards in Brazil.
"Anarchy is preferable to fascism" LOL! That hilarious. even more so that sucuh comments usually derive from college educated women. When I give my students the list of government systems, I describe authoritarianism (fascism) is "do what the king says" and anarchy as "do whatever you want until someone with a bigger stick comes around; then do what he wants." The boys are, "yeah, I'll get the biggest stick." However, the expressions on the girls faces... they immediately understand what anarchy means for them. And yet universities manage to make them forget.
One of the biggest political shifts of our lifetimes is how the affluent went from being anti-crime to being pro-crime. Even in more dangerous countries. It aligns with the broader leftward shift of the world, again, including the affluent. For most of history, the more you had, the more protection you wanted. That remains true in a practical sense, but when it comes to politics, the affluent now favor killing criminals with kindness.
The older I get, the more I feel like Ronny Cox's character from "Taps," as I find myself saying, "Good God... what are they teaching you?" I just can't imagine people can be *this* detached from reality, even performatively. Mind you if you asked a liberal woman why she'd be better off under anarchy, she wouldn't bother to tell you beyond that she'd rather take her chances than have the government oppress her.
The thing is, like you suggested, girls learn all the right lessons early in life. I remember in middle school, they took us out to the woods and had us play a game where we were divided into predators and prey. I was prey and our mission was to avoid getting caught. The spoken lesson was that this was the world animals lived in and the unspoken lesson was that this is what nature and, by implication, anarchy, looks like. I feel like all kids learn these lessons early in life. But the mission of higher education seems to be to get them to unlearn all these lessons, under the guise of promoting a "better way."
I wouldn’t blame democracy, exactly. In Canada, for example, the majority traditionally supported the death penalty, but governments including supposedly right wing governments did nothing about it. Currently crime is going up, as the courts and legal system have basically decided crime is ok.
I think that rule by lawyers and bureaucrats is basically the problem. Practical men like veterans, police and business leaders need not apply. Basically soft men and women creating hard times.
Tolerance of crime is a luxury belief, one whose prevalence is highly correlated to personal income. This is true everywhere in the world, whether in gated suburbs in America or private armed guards in Brazil.
"Anarchy is preferable to fascism" LOL! That hilarious. even more so that sucuh comments usually derive from college educated women. When I give my students the list of government systems, I describe authoritarianism (fascism) is "do what the king says" and anarchy as "do whatever you want until someone with a bigger stick comes around; then do what he wants." The boys are, "yeah, I'll get the biggest stick." However, the expressions on the girls faces... they immediately understand what anarchy means for them. And yet universities manage to make them forget.
One of the biggest political shifts of our lifetimes is how the affluent went from being anti-crime to being pro-crime. Even in more dangerous countries. It aligns with the broader leftward shift of the world, again, including the affluent. For most of history, the more you had, the more protection you wanted. That remains true in a practical sense, but when it comes to politics, the affluent now favor killing criminals with kindness.
The older I get, the more I feel like Ronny Cox's character from "Taps," as I find myself saying, "Good God... what are they teaching you?" I just can't imagine people can be *this* detached from reality, even performatively. Mind you if you asked a liberal woman why she'd be better off under anarchy, she wouldn't bother to tell you beyond that she'd rather take her chances than have the government oppress her.
The thing is, like you suggested, girls learn all the right lessons early in life. I remember in middle school, they took us out to the woods and had us play a game where we were divided into predators and prey. I was prey and our mission was to avoid getting caught. The spoken lesson was that this was the world animals lived in and the unspoken lesson was that this is what nature and, by implication, anarchy, looks like. I feel like all kids learn these lessons early in life. But the mission of higher education seems to be to get them to unlearn all these lessons, under the guise of promoting a "better way."
I wouldn’t blame democracy, exactly. In Canada, for example, the majority traditionally supported the death penalty, but governments including supposedly right wing governments did nothing about it. Currently crime is going up, as the courts and legal system have basically decided crime is ok.
I think that rule by lawyers and bureaucrats is basically the problem. Practical men like veterans, police and business leaders need not apply. Basically soft men and women creating hard times.