Progressives v Progress

Monday 23 May 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

reason Magazine on the progressive crusade against Ronald McDonald:

People don’t like cheap, tasty, high-calorie fare because McDonald’s offers it. McDonald’s offers it because people like it. In McDonald’s absence, patrons would seek it out at other fast-food places, sit-down establishments, or grocery stores.

We live in an age of inexpensive, abundant food carefully designed to please the mass palate. Most of us, recalling the scarcity, dietary monotony, and starvation that afflicted our ancestors for hundreds of millennia, count that as progress. But those determined to save human beings from their own alleged folly see it as catastrophic.

We are the first generation of any society in history where even poor people are fat, yet somehow this is not seen as progress. It seems that your average progressive would rather you starve than have access to copious amounts of food that people obviously desire.

2011-05-23  »  madlibertarianguy