Comment by incomingpain
4 days ago
We live in an irrational time. It's unclear if it was simply under reported in history or social changes in the last ~50-75 years have had breaking consequences.
People are trying to make sense of this. For examples.
The Canadian government heavily subsidizes junk food, then spends heavily on healthcare because of the resulting illnesses. It restrict and limits healthy food through supply management and promotes a “food pyramid” favoring domestic unhealthy food. Meanwhile, it spends billions marketing healthy living, yet fines people up to $25,000 for hiking in forests and zones cities so driving is nearly mandatory.
Government is an easy target for irrational behaviours.
Scientology is here since 1953 and it has similarly bonkers set of believes. And is huge.
Your rant about government or not being allowed to hike in some places in Canada is unrelated to the issue.
There's nothing irrational about it, this is how you maximize power and profit at any and all costs.
I completely get that point of view; and yes if that's the goal, it's completely rational.
But from a societal cohesion or perhaps even an ethical point of view it's just pure irrationality.
When typing the post, I was thinking, different levels of government, changing ideologies of politicians leaving inconsistent governance.
I couldn't agree more, but we've long since given up our power collectively in hope of escaping responsibility.