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I think, if not the Good Old Days, some Good New Days are possible. The tough part is it's going to require some sort of "hitting bottom" and a concomitant ree
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think, if not the Good Old Days, some Good New Days are possible. The tough part is it's going to require some sort of "hitting bottom" and a concomitant reevaluation of some of our baseline societal values. Like with regard to this bleach stuff, you would wind up with thousands of people jailed for child abuse and permanently barred from further contact with their children. On a larger scale, we need to recognize that if the first amendment says that saying "drinking bleach is a good idea" and "drinking bleach is a bad idea" have equal legal status, then we have a problem and need to rethink the first amendment. There needs to be sufficient willpower and fortitude to regard such things as live options.
- bell-cot 1y agoWhether you phrase it "reevaluation of some of our baseline societal values", or "peacefully resolving the culture wars" - what it would take to actually accomplish makes the antivax, bleach, and similar problems look like rounding errors by compare. :(
- BrenBarn 1y agoYes and no. I see them as related because the anti-science and anti-fact stance is itself a component of the culture wars. But yeah, what I'm saying is it might not be entirely peaceful.
- captainbland 1y agoAs niche movements, yeah. But antivax and bleach treatments as federal policy (which is the threat RFK essentially represents) would have the potential to generate catastrophic results which would look a bit more than a rounding error.