Do The Opposite of What They Say

Do you remember the Seinfeld episode when George decides to do the opposite of whatever his first instinct is? He’s so sick of being a loser, he goes all out with this and thus the greatest pick up line of all time was born.

“My name is George, I’m unemployed and live with my parents….”

It was a funny show for an innocent time where people of all beliefs could belly laugh together and agree on commonly accepted things, like oh, that our government has our best interest at heart.

I’ve always been skeptical about the so called good governments can do, because its main purpose should be on protecting our ability to pursue our own good interests, not in providing them.

These past few years have really change my outlook though and I’m firmly convinced that for the good of the people is at best an unintended consequence of whatever cockanamie schemes dim politicians dream up and that in fact our well being is but an after thought for government bureaucrats, whose entire purpose is to grow larger, wealthier and more powerful.

Case in point, last Sunday, Southern California was supposed to get slammed by an unprecedented hurricane coming up from Mexico. At least that’s what the media and local government officials were breathlessly telling us. Our ridiculous governor immediately called a State of Emergency before any raindrops fell and the even more ridiculous San Diego Mayor posted THIS on his Twitter page:

Leaving aside my post traumatic Covid PsychOps hangover, I was still in shock that those exact words were used. This horrible phrase caused so much emotional turmoil and damage to society it should never be repeated again, let alone by someone in leadership. Yet there it was and right then I knew I would NOT be staying home, NOR playing it safe and would go about my weekend as normal.

Of course the hurricane did what they always do when hitting the cool waters of the Pacific and downgraded itself to not even a tropical storm, but a decent rainstorm with some high winds at times. Nothing close to a stay home/stay safe event.

Many people freaked out though and started panic buying toilet paper, while lots of businesses closed down for the day. My mom’s senior living complex actually went in to what they called a temporary LOCKDOWN! For everyone’s safety of course.

Being prepared is one thing and giving people accurate information so they can do what they feel is necessary is good. This instant State of Emergency position and breathless fear mongering however is not healthy and I’m afraid has become the default position for incompetent politicians scouring for federal funds and who want to play act being heroes.

Meanwhile, when something really dangerous happens like the horrible Maui fires, grossly incompetent politicians, along with their green energy nonsense turned an already bad situation in to a catastrophic nightmare, causing hundreds of deaths.

The Maui Emergency Management Administrator chose not to sound the alarm that is supposed to go off for, well, you know emergencies, allowing the fast moving fires to catch thousands of people off guard, many of which inevitably perished.

Just as bad, the local official in charge of water resources, delayed requests by firefighters to release water to fill the reservoirs until after the fire had ravaged the island. This person was apparently concerned with what environmental impact the waters would have on farmland and wanted consultations with local farmers before any action was taken. Oh, ok.

On top of that, residents trying to flee to safety were turned around by officials who had barricaded the roads to clear up downed power lines. Those that knew better did the opposite of what they were told and drove to safety, while those that obeyed were trapped and perished.

Meanwhile Hawaii Governor Josh Green is already blaming his governments utterly atrocious fire response on climate change and shaming his own citizens for going outside the main stream media for accurate information.

Appalling is the only printable word that comes to mind.

Remember, do not expect the government to have your best interest at heart, in many ways their goals run diametrically opposed to your well being.

Side note: George Carlin was a very funny man, but also well known for his mistrust of the government. In fact his quotes from 30 years ago on body autonomy and personal agency seem downright prophetic today.