Posted by David Mansdoerfer on May 4th, 2011, at Nevada News and Views
During grad school, my class had a running joke – if you want to affect social change, just come up with a program to ‘educate’ the masses. Once the masses were ‘educated’, they would fall in line with your way of thinking and the world would magically turn into a better place.
If we lived in this idealistic world, ketchup packets, Keynesian economists, and Democrats would all not exist. Though I jest, personal liberty was the foundation in which the United States was built upon. Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father and President of the United States noted, “Under the law of nature, all men are born free, everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty.”
Today, we are bombarded with up to 5,000 advertisements each day. Each of these ads pleads for our attention and affects what we buy, watch and support. How then, are we supposed to react when our own tax dollars are used to try and manipulate our social habits and take away our personal liberty?
Recently, various government entities have begun to wage war against the hookah industry using our tax dollars to fund their campaigns. In Nevada, the Southern Nevada Health District has partnered with Rescue Social Change Group, LLC to begin a radio and television campaign advertising campaign to ‘inform’ the citizens of Nevada of the affects smoking hookah can have on one’s health.
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