RANT: Freedom and the Audi commercial

Sunday, February 14, 2010

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/14/big_brother_out_of_control/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Jeff+Jacoby+columns

The Boston Globe

Big Brother out of control

By Jeff Jacoby

Globe Columnist / February 14, 2010

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Of course, the notion of an environmental police state terrorizing citizens for not being sufficiently “green’’ is just parody meant to be laughed at. Or is it? On its website, Audi USA earnestly describes its Green Police as “caricatures’’ created to “help’’ consumers “faced with a myriad of decisions in their quest to become more environmentally responsible citizens.’’ And what better way to “help’’ them than with scenes of ruthless Greenshirts handcuffing hot-tubbers whose water is too warm, or raiding the home of residents who threw a used battery into the wrong trash bin?

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Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to take charge of “revamping the way American children eat and play.’’ It is only our passivity that makes such an encroachment possible. This used to be the land of the free. Is it still?

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Jeff Jacoby hit the nail on the head. We are no longer free. Nor brave.

Why else do we let the gooferment propagandize children — future voters — in what they call schools?

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INTERESTING: Meme, like genes for ideas

Sunday, February 14, 2010

meme: A cultural element or behavioural trait whose transmission and consequent persistence in a population, although occurring by non-genetic means (esp. imitation), is considered as analogous to the inheritance of a gene.

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