Nanny statehood

So how did the nanny state arise?

My gut feel is that the nanny state was always going to happen as (a) Western society got affluent enough to afford this luxury, and (b) the birth rate dropped to the point that each child is super precious.

But I also think that the feminization of politics since the 1960’s may have accelerated the adoption of nanny state principals.

But since the nanny state has been adopted, my own principals would tell me that it is the best economic solution for our society even if I can’t see why.

Which is another way of saying that if we ever enter into a social or economic policy cul-de-sac then that cul-de-sac will wither and die over a decade or two if it isn’t a good and proper general solution (financially speaking).

I can’t see the nanny state going anywhere. The value in engineering risks out of our lives is obviously very high when we are spending so much time and energy training our little geniuses.

The ‘price’ of the adoption of the nanny state is only high for those who have known otherwise and these guys (me for example) won’t last forever.