On Cigarettes
I imagine life was vastly more interesting prior to universal smoking bans.
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I imagine life was vastly more interesting prior to universal smoking bans.
Wood Faileth 
Gonna need more on this one. More interesting in what way?
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I view modernity as progressive, and it is progressing towards the most maximally evil and yet boring place possible. Universal smoking bans is to me one of those fascinating modernisms that 1. Nearly everyone takes for granted today – indeed positively love it – and 2. Nearly no one took for granted 30 years ago – and indeed would have positively been horrified by it. Modernity deals with things it doesn’t like in the most ferociously managerial, scolding inhumane way until divergence of opinion is obliterated. It also smuggles so many bad ideas into the mix, so much question begging that I’m suspicious that life was just ever so slightly more interesting and humane then. I could be wrong and don’t mean that I want to make the 80’s great again – I also have never smoked, have no interest in starting, and am well aware of the body bags left in the wake of mass market factory tobacco (despite my misgivings of equating smoking with all that). It’s just a hunch I guess.
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I think GK Chesterton said something along the lines of, “If man isn’t free to do stupid things, he really isn’t free at all.” Is that sort of what you mean?
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Hi H2H,
Not exactly – I wouldn’t characterize the 80’s as more/less politically free – although maybe GKC was using this as an analogy – which I would agree with – for *moral* free will?? I more just meant I bet the world was slightly more sane and normal then.
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