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Thursday, July 9. 2009

The hyper-regulation of life

Appleton at Spiked wants to take a stand against hyper-regulation of life by government. One quote:



It is not so much that the state is remoulding civil society. Instead, the state is demanding that we live our everyday lives through it. We are invited for a walk with the state; we are invited to eat with the state. More and more of social life is now lived through the state as an intermediary. Our everyday actions are supervised – and authorised – by an official bureaucracy.


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This is the nanny-fascist in all its glory. We had a very sorrowful incident involving a day care center in Billings not so long ago. Every news item seemed to mention that the center was not state-licensed, as if that had been a root cause of the problem. Yet a few years ago, we had a fatal incident in a state-licensed day care center. Jeepers, licensing babysitters?
In Billings, you need a permit to have alcohol in a public park. That may be a legitimate anti-littering procedure. In theory fireworks are prohibited, but thousands of residents shot them off on the 4th (and the 2nd, and through last night) and only a dozen citations went out. Banning fireworks is nanny-fascism to me: hold people responsible for using them safely instead.
#1 Geoff on 2009-07-09 14:27 (Reply)
In our state they just started licensing day care centers. Their motivation is really taxation. It used to be a cash business, and there was no way to keep track of the income for tax purposes. Now they've even got them in a union. They say it's for the benefit of the providers, but it's really just so the state doesn't miss out.
#1.1 LP on 2009-07-09 17:11 (Reply)

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