We had a measles epidemic in British Columbia last year, sparked by a small religious school where a very low percentage of the children were inoculated. For a while the “compulsory vaccination” conversation raged, and then it disappeared again. Nothing promotes irrational knee-jerk reactions more these days than the topic of the compulsory vaccination of…
Month: July 2015
Social Commentary
Greek Monetary Crisis
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Momentary flashback to posts of the last two weeks on Three Precepts of Politics. On the topic of vacuums, especially the leadership sort. Premiers of all provinces and territories voted in favour of accepting all recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to try to solve the First Nations problems. Absent? Stephen Harper, the Prime…
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Premises of Politics 2: Marketing Boards.
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A reminder of our 3 Premises: 1. Whenever there is a vacuum, someone will rush to fill it. 2. The best way to treat a political problem is to ignore it; usually it goes away. 3. The decision not to act is actually a decision. We discovered last week that controlling the number of big…
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Three Premises of Politics: (and why they don’t work)
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When society wants something to happen and the leaders of the country don’t want it to happen, they have a problem. This is because of certain facts that tinge all political interactions. Our Three Premises of Politics: 1. Whenever there is a vacuum, someone will rush to fill it. 2. The best way to treat…