Yet another couple of anti-maskers making a scene, being generally obnoxious, and deliberately threatening others’ health. In children it’s called “acting out”.
People say a child is “acting out” when they exhibit unrestrained and improper actions.
Such impulses often result in antisocial or delinquent behaviors. The term is also sometimes used in regard to a psychotherapeutic release of repressed feelings, as occurs in psychodrama.
The guy on the plane in Salt Lake City (above) was not acting out like a child, no. He was just showing off his “manly presence.” He has “friends” around the country. And they’re organizing acting out.
Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch finds a common thread in random gun violence, vaccine resistance, and climate change denial: “the way Americans have allowed the concept of ‘freedom’ to be perverted and, in effect, dumbed down over the last half century.”
Schofield adds:
A half century ago, the idea of mass resistance to public health vaccinations was largely unthinkable and rightfully dismissed by most Americans as akin to the paranoid claims of the lunatic fringe in equating water fluoridation with totalitarianism.
This acceptance did not arise because vaccination was risk-free. While most people were thankful for the personal health benefits they and their children would likely enjoy from vaccination, there was also a common understanding that vaccination was a public duty – a small sacrifice that one made as an act of citizenship in a free society.
Today, after decades of well-funded, anti-government propaganda from the far right, a sizable chunk of the population rejects the citizenship component of freedom and our morgues and hospital ICU’s offer stark testimony to the impact of the shift.
Schofield cites historian Will Durant’s warning that “when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”
Even now, we are just a few elections (or a handful of votes) away from the lunatics running the asylum.
Do more than clicktivism, cyber-people.