How Instagram is teaching us about
big government
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/22/how-instagram-is-teaching-us-about-big-government/The Foundry – James Velasquez – 12/2/2012
I quit Instagram on principle.
Because I’m tired of contributing to the commodification of my own
existence.”
“The commodification of my own
existence.” Amazing sort of phrase. It is an American sentiment: a principled
defense of the individual and the ownership of your own being, an assertion of
the liberty that comes with life.
But if this is the proper response
to “commodification” in the business world, why do we continue to tolerate it in
politics?
After all, Instagram only wants our
photographs. Perhaps they figured that Americans—being so accommodating to
politicians and bureaucrats who insist on having power over land, homes, wages,
television, cars, health care, and retirement funds—could stand to give up
control over their venerated pictures of bare
feet and empty plates.
Whether it’s the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB), or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), our
lives have never been more subjected to the whims of an unelected, “progressive”
bureaucracy.
When it comes to government power
grabs, it turns out everything is a commodity.
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