- Not news of course. But college-student gun banners are just as blindly ignorant about firearms as their hoplophobic elders. And entertaining to watch. (Via Codrea)
- Time to kill the Obamacare penalty. Nope. Not really. Way past time.
- And do something about the shameful waste and privacy violations of government-mandated electronic health records, too.
- Oh, great video, Sheila. Built on a great, Attitudinal statement.
- How Colorado and Washington have improved the cannabis business even in states where pot is still illegal or mostly so. To the benefit of buyers, besides.
- Elsewhere, cops are still making the otherwise-harmless trade as deadly as they possibly can.
- Ross Douthat, that always thoughtful version of a conservative, ponders “The Gift of Clinton” to the political world.
- Self care and the disappearance of the adult.
- The Galapagos mail drop for lonely sailors.
“Is it surprising that a generation being reared on a message of self-care rather than self-reliance would view “safe spaces” as an entitlement and the offensive, the odd, and the politically incorrect as tangibly threatening to their health?”
No. It is a natural extension of feelings over thought, of beliefs over reality, of self-identity and self- indulgence — “If I want it, it must be right.”
Another aspect of self-care is the old expression, “Everything I do that’s wrong is someone else’s fault.”
There’s no attempt to find the truth behind a situation, a relationship, or cause-and-effect. (In fact, cause-and-effect has been mostly relegated to correlation these days, even by scientists who _should_ know better.)
Because it’s not just a generation who was reared on the message of self-care, but at least one and possibly two generations before who have increasingly indulged themselves — with the active encouragement of government policy over the past 50 years — producing a “me vs you” paranoia in a single word, look, or gesture. Feeling insulted by someone else’s opinion is the height (or depth) of self-indulgence. “How dare you disagree with me” is personal arrogance that parallels the hubris of government itself.
But ironically, the very people who most cry out for “self-care” wouldn’t know how to take care of themselves if their lives depended on it.
Sheesh… my 10-yr old daughter knows more about guns than those college-aged clowns.
Wow, another indication of what I miss by not having a TV, a “twitter” (whatever the hell that is), an iPhone, etc. I never heard of this “self-care” aberration as such, though I’m well aware of the narcissistic hordes, the “artsy-fartsy” and sports whores (as opposed to actual art and sports) with their wild opinions on everything totally outside of their own education and experience… and the general ignorance of self ownership, self responsibility and self control…
Self care, to me, is actually taking that responsibility for my life, health, safety, my future (warts and all), by living with non-aggression and integrity as the focus. I care for my own self with a healthy diet and frugal lifestyle, coping with stress by avoiding most of the idiotic BS that causes irrational stress for the irresponsible and narcissistic people this article indicates.
Of course, the same re-definition of previously understood words and phrases goes on all around us. Which of us can use such words as anarchist, libertarian and even freedom anymore, without tedious explanations of their original meaning? Far too many people now see “freedom” to mean freedom FROM responsibility – or integrity of any kind.
Adding to the above are the government efforts to reduce the idea of personal responsibility, engendered by LBJ’s unGreat Society. Also the efforts for inculcation of group-think.
I hesitated to bring this up before, but my husband’s name is on one of those ISIS lists. It’s not the church list, but a list of employees of a couple of big companies. It’s old information, but still….
An FBI agent actually came to our door to warn us. That was a bizarre experience, let me tell you! I did do something right: I closed the door and talked to him on the front porch.
For those of you who wonder, yes, I’m for real, and this really happened.
A funny (sad funny) video on EHR (Electronic Hell Records). https://youtu.be/ttDxxe9nVxU
As someone who works with the medical world (Paramedic), things have gotten worse at the Emergency Department Triage because of EHR’s. New systems bar-code everything (making billing easier and mistakes less likely – good/bad as most things in life) but to get to that point all these questions have to be asked…height, weight, smoking, alcohol use, drug use, travel out of the US in the last X months, flu shot, pneumonia shot, shingles shot, want to harm others, want to harm self, any religious needs while you are here, can we let people know about you if they call, any animals at home…before they can get to vitals, problem, and starting treatment.
The only exception is “severe life threat” such as trauma, chest pain, not breathing, etc. But even then a “rapid registration” forces all these questions to be answered with in 30 min.
Even more concerning is that more and more equipment won’t work with out first scanning the bar-code on your EHR wrist band. Want to check that blood glucose right away, can’t use the ED’s because it needs to be scanned first, need to run an ECG/EKG – got to scan it first, want to set up a continuous Blood Pressure in the Heart Cath Lab for a person in an active heart attack – got to scan it first (the last was a real case, from first medical contact to getting in the Cath Lab was 19 min, 16 min to initial clot breaker drugs, but the registration system was down for upgrades and the Cath Lab’s system would not allow an “unregistered” person to be monitored, delaying treatment for another 22 min before Cath.)
The idea is nice, right now I can take someone to the closest medically appropriate hospital (with one exception in the county) and they can pull up the records of prior visits to the hospitals even when they are not in the same network. Before we had to take people halfway across the county (waisting valuable time) to get them where they have their records to help with the treatment.
But it also means they can be looked at by anyone in the system.
I was an ER triage nurse in the 80s. We usually had all the “history” we needed. People wore ID bracelets, etc. indicating serious conditions or allergies. The family, whoever accompanied the patient, or the patient him/herself was usually able to fill in any important blanks. Sure there were times when we didn’t have some bit that would have been good to know… but nothing is perfect, and isn’t ever likely to be.
It’s amazing how seldom prior medical history was unavailable, and how often it was not relevant… Of course, machines can’t seem to make that differential, so one size fits all… not.
I know former colleagues who at first thought the EMS would be a great thing… and now, after years beating their heads on it, are seeking retirement in increasing numbers.
Worst, probably, is this insane HIPPA thing that actually prevents communication in so many ways. The most horrible part of that joke being that all the information collected is instantly available to complete strangers who do not have your best interests in mind… But is unavailable too often to those who have to make life or death decisions immediately.
“Slapping ObamaCare refuseniks with hefty penalties (averaging almost $1,000) for not signing up would be unfair, like enforcing a parking ticket when the meter’s broken.”
Exactly.
[Yes, there is much in Trump and Trumpism that richly deserves a total wipeout, and much in his Republican Party that deserves to be sent howling into the political wilderness.]
“His” (Trump’s) Republican party should be sent to “the wilderness?”
Unfortunately most of he Conservatives (Capital C) I know are convinced that Trump is what’s wrong with the Republican Party. Double down on that for the party elites.
They firmly believe that what they really need is a “truly Conservative” candidate who will run on all the “truly Conservative” platform planks. Then they’ll win, and gloriously lead a revitalized America back to the golden age of the 1950s.
There’s no recognition that maybe, just maybe, voters nominated Trump because they didn’t like the establishment candidates, that perhaps voters have problems with the Republican Platform.
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Something interesting that I came across that I thought my friends here would find interesting too;
“saoirse nó bás”
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/09/this-scottish-legend-has-a-lesson-for-americans-in-2016