At what point did meeting our own basic needs become something that requires authorization?

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Have you ever considered how many ordinary human activities require government permission?

You can purchase a piece of land, pay for it outright, and still be told what you’re allowed to build on it, where you can place a dwelling, and whether you’re permitted to live in a tiny home. You can own the property, pay taxes on it every year, and face fines for using it in ways the government hasn’t approved. Apparently, ownership doesn’t necessarily mean control.

You can be homeless and face punishment for sleeping in public, even when you have nowhere else to go. In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that enforcing public camping restrictions does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment, even when adequate shelter isn’t available. Think about that. Having nowhere to sleep doesn’t necessarily protect you from being punished for sleeping outside.

In Houston, volunteers with Food Not Bombs received dozens of citations for distributing free meals outside a public library without city permission. They weren’t selling anything. They were feeding hungry people. A federal judge eventually intervened with a preliminary injunction in 2024, but the fact that volunteers had to fight the city in court over feeding people should be disturbing enough.

You can grow food, raise animals, sell what you produce, or offer your skills to your neighbors and find yourself navigating licensing requirements, zoning ordinances, and restrictions governing activities humans have practiced for generations.

And whenever someone questions any of this, the predictable response is that regulations exist for our safety.

I’m perfectly capable of understanding that sanitation, environmental damage, and activities that genuinely threaten other people deserve consideration. But why should the possibility of harm automatically justify government control? Why is the assumption that peaceful people must obtain permission first, rather than being held accountable when they actually cause harm?

We’ve accepted a system where people can be penalized for sleeping, sheltering themselves, sharing food, earning a living, or using land they supposedly own, even when the violation is simply failing to satisfy a government requirement. And we’ve become so accustomed to asking permission that we rarely question why it’s required in the first place.

At what point did meeting our own basic needs become something that requires authorization? And why are we so comfortable calling that freedom?

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The dancing plaque of 1518
History’s Strangest Mass Mystery
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…an 8 minute video

“In 1518, the city of Strasbourg was struck by one of history’s strangest mysteries: a mysterious dancing outbreak that caused people to dance for days without being able to stop. This video explores the story of Frau Troffea, the authorities’ unusual response, and the theories behind the Dancing Plague, from ergot poisoning to mass psychogenic illness and beliefs surrounding Saint Vitus.”
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Inside The Dancing Plague Of 1518, History’s Strangest Epidemic

“On July 14, 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea from the city of Strasbourg in modern-day France left her house and began to dance. She kept going and going for hours until she finally collapsed, sweating and twitching on the ground.

As if in a trance, she started dancing again the following day and the next day after that, seemingly unable to stop. Others soon started following suit and she was eventually joined by some 400 other locals who danced uncontrollably alongside her for about two full months.

No one knows what caused the townspeople to dance against their will — or why the dancing persisted for so long — but in the end, as many as 100 people died. Historians dubbed this bizarre and deadly event the dancing plague of 1518 and we’re still sorting through its mysteries 500 years later.

source: How The Dancing Plague Of 1518 Left 100 People Dead

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  1. DAP Avatar

    At what point …… as soon as the government determined that we needed to be controlled. That we needed “them” to determine what is best!

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