THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG
OCTOBER 21, 2010. Since individual freedom has become an endangered species, we need to look at the propaganda that continues to erode freedom.
In particular, we must understand that so-called science and scientific evidence are being used to propagate the view that those who hold “the truth” in their hands have the right to force everyone else to go along.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of medical practice.
Against the secret and concealed background of 106,000 annual deaths in America, as a result of the effects of pharmaceutical drugs, public health agencies continually tell us they know what’s best for our health. Why? Because they are relying on good science about disease, diagnosis, and treatment.
We, the great unwashed public, know nothing. We couldn’t know anything, because we haven’t done the research, we haven’t read the studies, we wouldn’t be able to comprehend the studies even if we could find them.
So, based on what science, precisely, do we get, as an outcome, 106,000 deaths in the US, every year, from the effects of government-approved medical drugs?
Reporters never pose that question to public health agencies.
The presumption is, if you know the truth, you have the right to force people to toe the line of that truth. In other words, they have no right to be wrong.
“We’re the experts. We just diagnosed you with RFTYX-45, a dangerous condition that could result in the disintegration of your spleen and liver. We’ve written the prescription for AbbaDabba, the only drug that could reverse this condition. You’re refusing the drug, and you’re opting, instead, to drink a tea made from dirt. You’re obviously insane.”
Does the patient have the right to eat dirt?
Let’s make it more severe. Does the patient have the right to chew tobacco to cure his illness?
Does the patient have the right to stand on his head in a snowstorm, naked, to cure his illness?
Does he have the right to lean up against a liquor store window and chant verses of regulations from the alcohol control board manual, in order to heal himself?
Does he have the right to sleep in a garbage bin for a month to cure himself?
Does he have the right to jump off a hundred-foot cliff to rid himself of his illness?
And the answer is yes. He has that right. He is free to choose.
It’s not a question of who has the best science, or who can present the best lies about having science. That question, when it comes right down to it, is irrelevant.
We have to understand this.
On the other side of the coin, you see, is the proposition that the government exists to protect everybody, everywhere, all the time. And when you choose to enter that door, you give up your freedom.
The entire “sympathy industry” is built to allow “the experts” to help victims by, in essence, telling them what they must do. That industry was also built to promote the gooey idea of an eternally meddling community of concerned people who descend on the rest of us, and advise us about our choices…
There are many reasons for freedom, and one of them is: you ultimately follow your own counsel and judgment, and you accept the consequences. You don’t just do this once, you do it all your life. It’s a road you walk.
If the vast social and political agenda aimed at coercing people into “accepting help” wins out, freedom is gone.
We have been taught that every weird action a person takes, every strange choice he makes, every odd idea he voices has an explanation…and if we can dig up that explanation, we will understand how and why the person departed from the group and the norm and the acceptable path. And then we can place a label on the person. We can decide “he needs help.”
This approach has been taken to such an extreme that many of us no longer really believe in that person’s freedom. Instead, we think he is simply a slave to some distorted inner impulse, and we should do what we can to root out that impulse and return the person to sanity.
On this battlefield, freedom becomes the casualty and the sacrifice. But of course we don’t recognize this. We’re so busy trying to fix and patch and rebuild, we lose the thread.
Government does the same thing, except its attitude is cynical and manipulative. Its day of paradise will come when the entire population is convinced that endless official help is necessary for survival. Then the beneficent authority can carve up the human psyche into regions that respond to the stimulation of “gifts.”
Freedom and choice will become relics of a long-gone past.
“Oh, yes. That dinosaur came and went. Now we have share and care. We’re really human in this day and age. And we have the science to prove it. Have you seen the recent study that was published by…?”
JON RAPPOPORT