Don't be afraid to think critically and challenge conventional wisdom.
shows that using the CDC estimate of accidental deaths at 240,000, the virus will be 170 times less deadly than accidents as a cause of death in the U.S.
All of the above should at least cause the inquisitive mind to stop and think about what is happening. We now have overpeople who have filed for unemployment and the economy is in tatters. We are letting this virus and the politicians who lead us send the nation into a tailspin from which we may never fully recover. What is certain, however, is that the longer we keep ourselves locked at home, the less likely a recovery becomes.Descartes was first and foremost a mathematician.
We certainly are afraid in today's America, and we are also allowing ourselves to be increasingly controlled by all-powerful states. Are we proving Hobbes right? Are we so incapable of overcoming fear that we have to be protected by big government? The answer at the moment is,"yes." Fear, however, is a base-level emotion. It can be overcome through rational thought, the kind which Descartes believed separated man from all other living creatures. If we stop thinking, what are we? Are we still men? Or are we nothing more than one of Hobbes' lambs?
For the sake of our country, the one our children and our children's children will inherit, we must wake up and start using our rational minds. Otherwise, America will prove theCharlie Kirk is founder and president of Turning Point USA, the author of the
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