NANNYISM ___________     I am inventing a couple of new words here, so I had better explain what I mean by them.     Nannyism is the construction of a society which is governed (for want of a better word) by those who would deem to know best by their own authority.     Nannyistic pertains to anything which is part of nannyism.     We may have heard of a Nanny State or a Nanny society. It is quite frightening.     A nanny is once removed from our mother and has a control of both the mother and her grandchildren. A nanny is usually a nice old lady who only wants the best for her grandchildren. She is mother to your mother and therefore has a different relationship. The concept of nanny, then is some-one who wants the best for you. You can go to her in times of trouble, or just to visit. You can say 'hello' and 'goodbye'. She will look after you.     There is a pretence (at the top, that is, the politicians who 'govern' us) that making laws are  good things which will take care of everything. That's why there are so many laws. Well, except for the fact that they make lawyers rich and the rest of us poor. But some might say this is cynical.     The nanny state is therefore one rich in laws that guide us through our every day so they we never have to worry. We are looked after and the world is a rosy place.     There are, of course laws for nearly everything. But don't worry, those things left to us as individuals will soon be made into laws so that we will have to worry even less. Safe in our beds we know that if some-one robs us or rapes us, then there is a law to cover it.     Laws, like the ones nanny makes, are kindly things. They make you feel safe.     But not all of them. In fact most of them are designed to punish, make you feel guilty or at least worry. But they are there to look after us, nanny says so and she must know because she is older and wiser.     So, in their wisdom, the law-makers (older and wiser) sit in quiet contemplation as to what they can make up next, so that we won't have to worry any more. This is nannyism.     Those of us earning a living, earn too much. Most of it must be taken away for those individuals and couples who are not working but are spending their leisure breeding. But, of course, nanny must have more grandchildren. In fact it might be wiser to take all our earnings and give us pocket money. Not too much mind, nanny can only afford a little. Just enough for a few lollies and perhaps a new jacket once in a while.     It stinks. Fight it at all cost before there is a law against free speech. You know you mustn't answer nanny back, she will tell your mother and mother may smack you.     Remember too, that laws which cannot be policed (by any means) are useless. Laws are really as silly as the people who make them.     But, you cry, we must have laws to protect us!     I agree there must be some rules and guidelines in our society as it is at present. I agree that some people need laws to govern their behaviour. What I worry about is that we are being governed by politicians who make laws to justify their corruption, their incompetency and their penchant for needing money to waste without consultation of those for whom the laws are made.     We have lost sight of the fact that this is supposed to be a democracy and that the governed are in fact the governors. It is, still a democracy, they tell us that, these amateur dictators. But it is not a democracy. It is a political dictatorship under the guise of being a nanny who 'looks after us'.     It's time we woke up to this fact. You can't  'let it ride', the nanny will take over, slowly and surely it will, in its insidious way.     And this nanny will not die unless we do something about it!

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