Convenience and safety
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Lauri Anne Jacobs
Convenience and safety are good things that we like and want in our modern society. They are both needed, but in moderation. The government uses our fears, wants, and needs for everything to be quick and easy to make us weak and lazy. They use every crisis to take a little more of our freedoms each time. The government gives us the illusion of safety but it is a grab for our rights and privileges. COVID was a perfect example, as was the Patriot Act that came from 9/11. That act gave the government the right to spy on its citizens. As usual, the people blindly stick their heads in the sand and never question anything.
“Those who would give essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” Both of these are quotes from Benjamin Franklin. Our founding fathers, who came here to escape tyranny, knew the slippery slope of government taking away our freedoms for safety. They use the term hate speech to take away freedom of speech. Hate speech is defined by left as anything that opposes whatever they believe. Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the perfect example of this. He was killed for his Christian conservative beliefs.
The need for safety and convenience go hand in hand. They are first cousins. People will do almost anything to not be inconvenienced. They took an untested vaccine for the convenience to be able to travel freely. Some took it out of fear to purchase what they thought was a little temporary safety. Our cell phones are convenient and make us feel safe, but they are tracking devices by themselves. People then add Life 360 to their phones so they can keep up with their loved ones location, not realizing it is nothing but a data collector program. It is convenient and gives the illusion of safety. Convenience can be good, but it makes us lazy. Everything is automatic now and at the push of a button. Life was much better and simpler before everything became automatic.
What happened to waiting your turn or doing it all by hand? Convenience is what happened; instant gratification. When everything is handed to you, it is only worth as much as the time you put in. Society sits in the safety of their home and has everything, including groceries, delivered to their front door for convenience sake. What they do not realize is that they are slowly being groomed and trained. It sounds far-fetched now, but if you read the World Economic Forum’s agenda for 2030, it is not so crazy sounding. As George Carlin said, “It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.” Big Brother will use our want for convenience and safety to our demise if we continue to let it happen.
