tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post1091775352882769572..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: Infantilising citizensJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-19700636746662757512011-02-07T08:28:12.802+00:002011-02-07T08:28:12.802+00:00There are plenty of other factors around that infa...There are plenty of other factors around that infantilize the population in modern democrazies just as effectively as the "Nanny State". Modern private mass media must be one of the clearer culprits. Another is the spread of legal minutiae. In Norway, it is private enterprise (US owned) that pioneers such genius ideas as day courses in climbing stepladders, parking your car in the morning and how to drive slowly (not necessarily safely) on the freeway. <br /><br />As usual, it is when someone - a private "concerned citizen", a government bureaucrat or a corporate bean counter - decides to pull the string far beyond reasonable limits, that the nonsense appears. Fight the nonsense, not the background it comes from.Kaptajn Congoboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096496363498080615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-46793661298414819502011-02-07T01:23:39.675+00:002011-02-07T01:23:39.675+00:00When does Fiske think Egypt did not have some Dadd...When does Fiske think Egypt did not have some Daddy in charge? During the brief British ascendancy, perhaps. But before Nasser was Farouk, and before him the various emirs of Mehmet Ali's dynasty; and before him the Turks; the Mamluqs; the Fatimids; etc. etc., all the way back to the first pharaoh. <br /><br />And why does he suppose that the Egyptian Army and Egyptian ruling class cannot act on its own interests, with Washington doing little more than bribing the next Colonel-President not to start a war with Israel?TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-33680711143774351682011-02-06T23:30:16.036+00:002011-02-06T23:30:16.036+00:00I don't see why governance need lead to infant...I don't see why governance need lead to infantilising. It could lead to education in critique and design of alternatives.<br /><br />Usually it doesn't - and this is where things get interesting I think.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355215688351759230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-42803643086590771052011-02-06T21:25:09.620+00:002011-02-06T21:25:09.620+00:00On the other hand we have a drinking age of 18, wh...On the other hand we have a drinking age of 18, whereas in the US the nanny state has dictated that it must be 21 for no good reason as far as I can see.Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936974517695558399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-47140028127394195962011-02-06T19:35:05.229+00:002011-02-06T19:35:05.229+00:00I recently came back from a trip to the UK. I hav...I recently came back from a trip to the UK. I have to say, there were countless signs everywhere informing me of things that anyone would easily notice. Especially those "look left/look right" signs painted at road crossings. Though in that case, I may have needed them as I still instinctively looked the other way.<br /><br />But other than that, I said to myself "so this is what happens in a nanny state?" That, and the constant presence of cctv cameras.Noonsnoreply@blogger.com