{"id":66617,"date":"2024-01-29T05:54:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66617"},"modified":"2024-01-29T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:54:56","slug":"we-cant-ban-our-way-to-a-better-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66617","title":{"rendered":"We Can\u2019t Ban Our Way to a Better World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We Can\u2019t Ban Our Way to a Better World<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Henry, Diana Mara.\u00a0Police dragging a smiling woman<\/a>, November 1980. Diana Mara Henry Papers (PH 51). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Il nous faut de l\u2019audace, encore de l\u2019audace, toujours de l\u2019audace!<\/p>\n

(We need audacity, more audacity, always audacity!)<\/p>\n

Georges Jacques Danton<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just a short time ago, on a Saturday, before a flake of snow glistened in the air on the following Sunday, an imminent weather emergency caused New York Governor Kathy Hochul to \u201cban travel\u201d and postpone the Steelers-Bills super Wild Card game until the following Monday.<\/p>\n

Certainly, severe weather is a legitimate reason to cancel or postpone events, and to stridently warn against travel during white-out conditions in a blizzard, but a travel ban?<\/p>\n

Banning isn\u2019t limited to travel during white-out conditions in blizzards though. It is truly a bipartisan pastime. Ban gas stoves; Ban gas-powered generators; Ban books; Ban misinformation; Ban fake news; Ban gender affirming care; Ban parents from being notified of gender transitions; Ban abortions; Ban the banning of abortions; Ban gasoline powered cars and trucks; Ban the unvaccinated; Ban the unmasked; Ban DEI; Ban gas boilers; Ban coal; Ban nuclear; Ban high-capacity magazines; Ban guns; Ban incandescent lightbulbs;<\/p>\n

Those bans are just to fix all of society\u2019s important problems, but there are presumably less important things that need banning as well. What would really help is\u00a0banning honors classes<\/a>\u00a0to produce equity,\u00a0banning youth tackle football<\/a>, and even\u00a0banning sledding! In Canada!<\/a><\/p>\n

If we pass just a few more laws that ban the things we don\u2019t like and banish the people who support them, utopia will arrive and thou-shalt-not do anything.<\/p>\n

Maybe you agree with some of these bans and maybe you disagree with others. Certainly if you have any political leanings at all, some of these bans will find your enthusiastic support and others your passionate fury…<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Can\u2019t Ban Our Way to a Better World Henry, Diana Mara.\u00a0Police dragging a smiling woman, November 1980. Diana Mara Henry Papers (PH 51). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries Il nous faut de l\u2019audace, encore de l\u2019audace, toujours de l\u2019audace! (We need audacity, more audacity, always audacity!) Georges Jacques Danton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21441,32474,120,34087],"class_list":["post-66617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-banning","tag-brownstone-institute","tag-censorship","tag-charles-krblich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66618,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66617\/revisions\/66618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}