In this Brownstone Institute essay, David McGrogan argues that the truckers’ protest in Canada highlights the core conflict of our age: Society versus the State.
He writes:
Justin Trudeau’s confrontation with the Canadian truckers may be the single most significant event of the Covid pandemic – not because of its eventual outcome, whatever that may be, but because of what it symbolises. It captures, in perfect microcosm, the tensions between the competing imperatives of the age: freedom versus security; the rule of law versus flexible ‘responsive’ governance; the priorities of the workers versus those of the Zooming bourgeoisie; the need for real-world human interaction and belonging versus the promises of splendid online isolation; the experiences of the common man, who knows where it hurts, versus those of the professional expert class, who know nothing that cannot be expressed as a formula.
He’s right. Elitists like Trudeau who think they know how society needs to be controlled have wormed their way into power in a great many countries (think of Australia and New Zealand especially). They cling bitterly to their cosmic visions and despise ordinary people who would just like to be left alone.
Read the whole thing.