The State is the opioid of the masses
See what I did there...I fixed it for him.
I do more engineering in my rc hobby than I ever did as an engineer in the aerospace industry
Do not trust a person who tells you to forgo your own thinking, but blindly put your faith in experts
Not necessarily
Never trust a person who tells you to "not do your own research", but tells you to "trust the experts".
Why does modern mankind crave war?
I read thru it, not long ago, and thought it's lessons apply. There needs to be a revival of people reading it
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Bring back Saturday morning cartoons. And not thr overt educational crap, I mean the 80's type; Transformers, GIJoe, GoBots, Smurfs, care bears, Looney Toons , etc
Watch the world be restored.
Remember, when you want a law or regulation, you are authorizing the State to use force/violence (potentially even death) to enforce).
So first ask if this concern is serious enough for violence or death.
Fricassee in can't iron kettle over open fire type

Those that say "I believe in science" have a unrealistic understanding of science.
I really despise the take "oh look at all these people that have all of sudden became a (fill in the blank) experts" as if we have to deferr to "experts"
Its not that we despise experts, , we just disagree with the currently approved experts, who lie and never admit they were wrong.
Exhibits: Afghanistan, Iraq, Climate change, Covid, dis/mis/mal-information, and many more
Notice how much educated, science-minded, enlightened, modern people use violence/war.
Just look at all the wars/conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Wish they couldn't mine/collect my data without my expressed permission on every piece of info
Hmm.. got the national emergency test over the cell phone....does the zombie apocalypse start now? How long will it take for the covid vaccine to change people into zombies? ππππ€£π
New science is easy. No need for hypotheses, test, or observe, you just say "The Science says" followed by a lot of big words then defend by restating your credentials and calling that which disagrees dis/mis/mal-information.
Saw a snippet from the 2022 WEF press conference on Economics of Water, where in part of it they talked about failure of getting everyone a Covid jab,
how climate change is too abstract
But everyone understands the need for water
And the common good
They are evidently going to manufacture (oh I mean be concerned with existing) a water crisis.