Lifetime Automobile Usage is More Dangerous Than COVID-19
Fear is a powerful and destructive motivator. It is a force that has gripped the world. It’s name? COVID-19. Life is precious, fragile, and fraught with danger. We know this instinctively and by experience. Yet, we still take risks. Risk taking, after all, is an inherent part of the human experience and what has led the United States to generate tremendous prosperity on Earth and conquer gravity as we reach for the stars.
You take a risk more dangerous than COVID-19 every time you get behind the wheel of the car, be it to the grocery story or dropping your kids off at daycare. The life time risk of an automobile accident far outweighs your likelihood of dying from COVID-19, if you are to contract the virus. Yet, we don’t ban driving and prohibit the exploration of the final frontier by those that seek to expand the knowledge of the finite natural world through the exploration of the heavens, the dangers of which are readily apparent — nor should we.
Through our quest for knowledge as a civilization, we have sacrificed something far more precious, Truth. It is upon the exploration and expansion of this Truth which America was founded, that liberty is not a construct of man and that it is the responsibility of each succeeding generation to see that the course of freedom is passed on and increased by each succeeding generation. This is our scared trust.
The question we must all ask ourselves is deeply philosophical and existential in nature, what are the costs of freedom we are willing to bare? Unfortunately, secondary schooling (thank the Teachers’ Unions) doesn’t arm graduates with an appreciation for the complex and to reflexively examine polemic and societal issues from this vantage point and the media isn’t interested in fostering true intellectual discussions about the foundations of the American republic. It just isn’t in the interests of the media in their perennial race to the bottom. It is a race to uphold their bottom lines and advance the ideology of leftism, not the foundations of our constitutional form of government.
As a people, we must not only hold our politicians to account, but the media and education cartels who laud their importance, while sacrificing their responsibility. All the while, we must take time for personal accountability for outsourcing personal responsibility for ourselves onto the shoulders of others. Societal enrichment and personal enlightenment demands as much — from all of us.
