Risk just isn’t fundamental, it is an absolute necessity. This is one reason why Progressivism always fails – it is ALWAYS trying to not just reduce risk in Society, it tries (sadly) to remove it completely.
A word keeps coming up from the authorities who are trying to guide us, presumably in our own self-interest. They appear to be disabusing us of the idea of risk. They are already telling us that even in the event of all of us getting a vaccine, don’t let your guard down. Even if hospital admissions thankfully decline, we are told to not let up. OK. But how long will this press on? The prospect of “prepare for another surge” could become the boilerplate mantra of our lives.
Risk is fundamental to the human condition. We cannot be made free of risk, nor should a government entity believe that such an impossible task is their mandate. Such a mandate opens the door to, in the future, there being other unknown manipulations of our behavior. If we are told by the government not to sing or talk loudly at our own family table, it is not necessarily far-fetched to imagine the unimaginable.
Joe Soucheray (Risk is the very soul of our existence)
Risk is necessary not just for Society as a whole but for each of us as well. Without risk, there is no reward. Without reward, there is no striving. Without out risk, there is no sense of accomplishment at a task deemed to hard or difficult to obtain.
Without risk, and the ability to FAIL, there is no learning. In fact, Failure is a requisite for later Success.
Which Progressivism doesn’t want you to achieve.
Enervation sets in. Every time it’s tried.
As Walter Williams implied, spiritual poverty ensues.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
