Bass Ackwards Society

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August 28, 2013

It’s difficult to believe sometimes, just how backwards we’ve become as a society. It’s almost like our complete, 180 degree reversal in logic and reason has been perfectly orchestrated by some behind-the-scenes puppetmaster… but that’s just me being an unreasonable, paranoid, conspiracy theorist, right? Let’s skip that for now. Let us instead, call on something much more accessible and readily recallable to all of us… Let’s start with our favorite topic: E-cigarettes. Why the vehement hatred of something so obviously helpful to people who are on a collision course with the great, grim and grimy Reaper himself? Why are we trying to rid the world of something that is not dangerous… or in the most far-fetched, worst case scenario is much less dangerous than the practice it was designed to replace… all the while protecting the very industry from which the E-cig industry is trying to save people? Why the double standards? Why the painfully illogical decision-making, parading around as “regulation, legal proceedings, legislation,” and the like?

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First up: E-cigarettes, which by their very definition exclude the “burning” aspect of smoking, along with all those substances that burning tobacco pumps into the lungs with a hate-filled vengeance (tar, arsenic, carbon monoxide, and those 4,000 other chemicals… which in reality number less than 1,000, thank you National Association of Exaggerating Fear-Mongers… that possess the evil soul of the unholy cigarette). But there are those elements in society which Nick Gillespie, a favorite Libertarian-minded writer of mine, refers to as “dour band of fuss-budgets constantly on the prowl for new ways to make life slightly less bearable.” (Read his article here) These beyond-puritanism champions of happiness-snuffing have been attempting to argue for a number of years now that E-cigarettes are actually as dangerous or more dangerous than regular (analog) tobacco cigarettes. This is elementary backwards logic. It’s like saying that a 60-calorie, gluten-free, reduced fat brownie is as dangerous or more dangerous than a gooey, lard-based, milk chocolate chunk-filled, 100 grams of fat, 600-calorie, heart-attack-on-a-plate brownie slothered in caramel and chocolate sauce, whipped cream, walnuts, and… (Click here to read the rest of my article.)

 

[DC2]

It’s difficult to believe sometimes, just how backwards we’ve become as a society. It’s almost like our complete, 180 degree reversal in logic and reason has been perfectly orchestrated by some behind-the-scenes puppetmaster… but that’s just me being an unreasonable, paranoid, conspiracy theorist, right?

It's not really any kind of conspiracy, it's just business as usual.

Or maybe I should say that business as usual is and always has been, by definition, a conspiracy.
And the bigger the business, the bigger the conspiracies.

Most of the public does not seem to understand this simple and obvious fact.
But then again, I didn't understand it either until I started vaping four years ago.

What I have learned in the last four years I sometimes wish I could unlearn.