Americans can't claim any special ability in thinking up dumb stuff. However, we do have a talent for carrying a dumb idea to the extreme.
In the beginning
When something bothers, hurts, or scares us, prohibition immediately comes to mind. The urge to prohibit, ban, excommunicate, or banish is primal and childish, "Mommy, make it go away!" In practice, prohibition is just another form of magic thinking that almost never works.
The appeal
It is such a simple idea, and if we could just prohibit something, we ... continue reading
In the beginning
When something bothers, hurts, or scares us, prohibition immediately comes to mind. The urge to prohibit, ban, excommunicate, or banish is primal and childish, "Mommy, make it go away!" In practice, prohibition is just another form of magic thinking that almost never works.
The appeal
It is such a simple idea, and if we could just prohibit something, we ... continue reading
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