by Eric Peters
February 7, 2026 - Never mind that the roads are clear. There might be a patch of unmelted snow or ice on a side street somewhere. Someone might slip!
It is laughable - pitiable - to people who grew up in the Before Time, when schools were only closed if a blizzard hit and only after it actually hit, not because the weather guy said it might snow. We children of the Before Time had to wait for the snow and hope there was enough to get them to close the schools. Often, there was a two-hour delay. It was rare that we got the entire day off from school.
What is Safetyism doing to the minds of today's youth? Imagine growing up the way the children grow up today, trunk-or-treating in the school gym rather than hooliganing with other youth from door to door on your own. Being taught to fear cars - and driving - via overt and subtle conditioning, beginning with the Safety Seat Thing. Now it is devolved to being that it might snow.
In the Before Time, when it snowed, we took to the roads with gusto, if we were old enough to drive. It is how we learned how to drive. There is no better teacher than experience; but these are experiences the youth of this time are denied.
This is actually dangerous - because it is inducing passivity; a state of helplessness learned by preventing children from learning through experience how to deal with life. It is probably deliberate. Does a cattle rancher want steers or bulls? Steers are easier to control. Do you know how a bull becomes a steer? It is basically the same method used on us today and for basically the same reason.
Eventually - logically - we will be herded into “safe” cities, where passivity is the way people (if you want to use that word) will live (if you want to call it that). They will experience everything very safely, probably virtually.
Maybe they will like it, too. Steers seem to be content. It is just the bulls among us who are not liking where this is headed.