We need to reduce the nation's speed limit to 5 miles per hour. Thousands and thousands of people die each year from traffic accidents. In a lot of those instances, speed is a factor. If it could save just ONE life, it would be worth it.
Alcohol is another factor in people dying. Drunk drivers, liver disease, alcohol poisoning, fights that end in death between friends, family and spouses occur when too much alcohol is consumed. If it could save just ONE life, it would be worth it.
Falling in the home causes 6000 deaths a year in the United States. A law should be passed where every house has handrails along the walls, on furniture, near the toilet, shower and bathtub. If it could save just ONE life, it would be worth it.
Home fires and burns are the third leading cause of death in the United States. If we would all just live outside and stay away from fire, it might save the 3,000 people who die each year from this terrible cause. If it could save just ONE life, it would be worth it.
Everyone, PLEASE...take a moment and think this through. We need government, our government, to come in and take control of our lives. It's quite obvious we can't go it alone. Life is too dangerous for us to be on our own. Maybe if our rulers would build big, nice fenced in areas in which we could live and be protected from all the big bad things that are out there in the world, then we would be safe. They would feed us, clothe us, house us, keep us warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and assign work details so we could feel useful and part of the social network that has been so conveniently structured for our safe, sedate and happy happy lives. At night, instead of TV, we could listen to our rulers indoctrinate us on how to just...get along. We could call each other 'Comrade' or 'Brother and Sister' and sleep in our single bunk beds with government supplied sheets, pillow and soft goat hair blanket. All dreams would be placed in our head by government implanted micro chips so we could visit the beach or climb a mountain or race a car. Of course, none of this would be real, because that would involve some kind of danger. We can't have danger. There can be no danger in our lives. How ridiculous to even think such a thing. As we lay down at night, we would get our pill to help us wake up refreshed and have happy thoughts of going to our work station and grind out widgets by the thousands so we could earn our cup of gruel and small glass of water. The State cares about us, and wants us to be free from all harm and anxiety. Those that become malfunctioning machines...uh...er...people....are taken to a 'special' place to receive more adequate care. For some reason, we will never see them again...but we are told they are happy in their new, special place, and we have no reason to think otherwise. After all, the government told us so. As we rapidly approach this idyllic existence that so many want, I long for the chip in my brain so I can walk the wall of China and experience Woodstock all over again. Soon, and very soon...my name will be changed to a conforming number...probably 97845269300. That would be nice. Wouldn't it?
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