Perhaps you have seen the distressingly bad commercials for "my anti-drug." For some of the fictional persons depicted in the ads, the anti-drug is tongue piercing, skating, or other such activities. The drug czar’s propaganda campaign brings two issues to the fore. First, unsurprisingly, it gets human nature completely backwards. (This is unsurprising because it is, after all, paid propaganda of the state). The error concerning human nature is this: human beings generally do not engage in pleasant practices merely to avoid another practice. In other words, you do not drink Coke merely to avoid drinking Pepsi. Given options, people … Continue reading How To Test Your Ideological Health