Gut-Punch Story: Little Girl Forced to Take 'Happy Patch'
How long before fiction becomes reality? Are we complicit?
Today’s #FreedomShorts entry is called REGULATION.
This is the third time I have watched it since it came out five years ago…and each time I watch it, I feel sadder, and angrier, than the previous time.
And if I know you guys at all, I know that most of you will feel the same.
Face-hole-leakers (The Starfire Codes and Jacqueline Rendell, I’m lookin’ at you) will very likely get leaky from your face-holes. But even my brothers are gonna get choked up. With pathos. With fatherly protectiveness. With rage. Even more so the second time you watch it.
The music. The little caterpillar. The girl’s face—a little human face, in which all seems normal and right with the world. And the smug surety of her tormenter…just ‘doing her job.’
Watch it, full screen, without distractions. Feel it. And then we’ll talk after.
First off…
If this seems far-fetched, then you haven’t been paying attention. Almost all of the crazy things that are happening now seemed far-fetched a few decades ago.
Then the far-fetched happens. Then it becomes normalized. And then you forget that it was ever far-fetched at all.
So don’t tell me that this would never happen.
The technology will exist one day. And if you think that majorities won’t eventually support something like this, and that government won’t impose it by force, then you should strongly consider the possibility that you are completely deluding yourself.
Or maybe you recognize the threat, but are still living in the second-level fantasy that we just have to work harder in the next election—that that’s when we will elect the guy who will resurrect the Founding Fathers. Then we’ll all put on tricorne hats and he will lead us in restoring the Founders’ “original intent.” Lemme know how that works out.
In your dreams, of course. Because it ain’t gonna happen in reality.
Second…
If this makes you angry, then you have to ask yourself how you can support the existence of any entity that can exercise the kind of power required to impose such things. Only governments can do that.
But Chris—big corporations are the problem. They will profit from making these drugs and technologies. They will push for it.
Yes, they will. But only government can force it on you.
Corporations are a problem, but corporations are not THE problem. Corporations as they are now would not exist without government.
Government is what empowers them to exist in their current, highly problematic state. Government gives them special treatment and protection. If corporations are to have any ability to impose anything at all, government is the power vector through which they will do it.
Yes, governments and corporations form an unholy alliance. But it is an unholy alliance with government as the senior partner. An alliance that cannot exist, or do any harm, without government.
By continuing to believe that we are a slave species who cannot exist without involuntary masters, you are ushering in the world where more stuff like this will happen.
By continuing to hide inside in one of a series of fantasies, you help doom us to an endless, pointless battle…generation after generation.
“We can make a limited government and then keep it limited.”
Where has such a thing ever happened?
“The right kind of government will save us from the wrong kind of government.”
No it won’t. Government is the problem.
When the Health and Human Services agent says, “We made a law”—THAT, right there, should tell you all you need to know.
Any invented law—especially those that run counter to natural law—is not a law, it’s an attack. Even many ancient kings generally believed that they were upholding natural law, not creating new law. But now we have the modern state, which believes it can invent any law it wants, because it’s “the will of the people.”
We needed to get away from hereditary authority…but not this way. This way was a mistake. This way will lead to happy patches for children.
And this way will continue so long as you let it.
Exit question:
What should happen to a person who forces poison—or anything—on your child?
It’s the law, after all.
It’s (supposedly) the will of the majority, after all.
She was “just doing her job,” after all.
This is spot on:
"Corporations are a problem, but corporations are not THE problem. Corporations as they are now would not exist without government."
But the fundamental error is in the perception of these two entities ( corporations-government) as being separate. It isnt quite fascism or other antiquated terms that we have been programmed to use, but the public-private partnershipis are all operated by the national security administrative state on a particular level. Think indexing or logistics for power, they are both controlled by the same hands. (This is why you see an out of the box intelligence program like open AI get a NSC board member)
To address these agendas is to first understood how they are engaged. To only blame corporations, or government, is to only see part of the picture. The system is captured.
I kept waiting for the little girl to stab the social worker in the neck with a screwdriver.
Was I the only one looking for a happy ending?