Our Pavlovian Population

The TSA is one of my favorite government agencies. It’s such a poster child for the public-school-indoctrinated, politically correct, pixie-dust-sniffing majority that exists on the other side of the looking glass and yet seems to be running our country.

Most people I come into contact with on a daily basis fall into this category and whenever we discuss airline security and I propose airlines being responsible for their own security the response is so Pavlovian, so reflexive that that I can almost beat them to the punch: oh we can’t have that. The big airlines don’t care about your safety; they just care about making money.

I almost laugh just writing that. True, I have to admit, most people don’t go into business with the goal of losing money so I have to concede that point.

Such statements reflect so clearly, so poignantly, just how ass-backwards people in this country have been taught to think. They have literally been programmed not to see things as they are, but to see them the way the government wants them to see them.

 The government intrudes into the affairs of banking, insurance, airlines, schools, hospitals, and everything else, ad infinitum. Though many complain of the results, they want government to provide the solutions. Maybe, the solutions could be better addressed by the private sector says this correspondent.