Powerless If You Think So
Having been told for years that they are powerless over drugs many Americans have come to believe it. At that point and not a second before they became powerless. The much vaunted ‘power of positive thinking’ has a dark corollary, the power of fear. While neither effect reality, our suggestibility gives them power beyond all reason because simple easy answers are like candy to the human brain.
The government is the biggest proponent of the ‘powerless’ proposition because it gives them great power. The instant drugs were imbued with the power to dictate human behavior, humans became something less. Prohibitionist in league with the 4th estate then swooped in on a wave of legislation feeding like sharks on our unalienable rights. The power vacuum created by the wide spread acceptance of the ‘powerless’ theory was and is enormous.
With images of rats opting for cocaine to death over good nutrition, the prohibitionist convinced everyone that this was their fate without them. If society was to be saved from this new powerful enemy it must be protected. A policy that would incarcerate tens of millions of Americans was born.
We are destroying freedom at a prodigious rate based on nothing more than a deflated opinion of the species.
Rick Wolfe
