Plucking
Happy,
healthy, and hopeful folks resist demands to conform to other folks’
wishes that conflict with their own preferences. Whosover other
folks wish to manage must first suffer. Miserable folks tend to look
for ways to reduce the misery, and tend to comply with those folks
who promote comfort through obedience.
According
to some accounts, Stalin, a Russian dictator, plucked a live chicken
into nudity, set it down whilst showing it bread crumbs in his hand,
and then treated it to a handful of grain. The chicken was a most
devoted pet thereafter. Stalin’s point was that stripping folks of
resources, and offering a little bit of something, was key to
controlling folks.
Recently,
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison
(SCE) company folks turned off electric power to select customers
allegedly for safety reasons.
SCE
folks then deployed vans to affected areas to enable folks to
recharge device batteries. They also provided food, water, and other
resources to these affected folks.
First,
utility folks turn off power. Then, they provide comfort to affected
folks. This looks like a plucking and treating event.
Problem:
Controllers shut down centrally generated power
Going
forward, power utility folks may turn off power for “safety” for
increasing intervals. They may offer resources and services to
affected users.
Reaction:
Controllers offer to minimize customer suffering. Some folks try to
adapt or resolve their discomfort by their own efforts.
Some
affected folks may whine and seek “legal” remedies. Some may move
to where they hope not to suffer outages.
Some
folks may prepare with electrical generators (gasoline, diesel,
propane, or solar). They may stock up on resources. Some may form
co-ops to address power concerns.
Solution:
Legislators regulate folks’ efforts to resolve their discomfort
Efforts
to personally ameliorate power outage effects will bother
controllers, who prefer that other folks depend upon them for living
arrangements. They will try to impede such efforts through “legal”
means.
Legislators
may regulate possession and use of generators, requiring permits,
licenses, and insurance to have/operate generators. They may regulate
stockpiling resources, calling such activity “hoarding”.
Rule-makers will claim that generators and “hoarding” are unsafe
without proper supervision.
This
scenario is just another in a long train of efforts toward an end:
subjugation of humans through compelling them into dependency.
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