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October 17, 2007
Wednesday
 
 
You are not responsible for anything, the state is responsible for everything
Perry de Havilland (London)  Self ownership • UK affairs

The BBC is reporting one of the most grotesque things I have seen for a while...

Individuals can no longer be held responsible for obesity so government must act to stop Britain "sleepwalking" into a crisis, a report has concluded.

So, you are not responsible for what you stick in your own damned mouth. Think about that and the implications that pulse out of those words like a neutron bomb's radiation.

I have long said that in the western world the fascist approach to control (you may 'own' the means of production but you must used them in accordance with national political directives, i.e you are completely regulated and thus have liability without control) has completely triumphed over the socialist approach to control (the state, euphemised as 'The People', directly owns everything and you are simply a politically directed deployable unit of labour). And of course 'labour' means you and what you do with your body. This particular means of production is already only 'owned' by you provided you use it in a politically approved manner. And that will soon include what you may eat or may not eat.

This BBC article makes me wonder if the time to start throwing rocks could be closer than we like to think.

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Well, as a Texan, England has long since passed the time for throwing stones... with the primary problem being ya'll are limited to owning little more effective than stones.


Posted by Aglifter at October 23, 2007 03:22 AM

The comrades over at the "Independent" newspaper had a front page story (that went over into page two and so on) that relates to this.

A New Labour adviser has produced a report about how people should, for example, be made to buy a special permit every year to buy tobacco (the money, of course, going to the N.H.S.), and there should be compulsory exercise, and people should be made to eat certain things - which should be provided free (and so on).

Not surprisingly the Comrades seemed fairly well desposed to such Progressive ideas.


Posted by Paul Marks at October 23, 2007 05:59 PM
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