For this morning, a bit of music, and some thought about “Going Galt”.
We’ll start with this rather interesting thing found at Princess Natasha’s Facebook, of all places!
I’d rather like to post a few more of those that it links to, but I want to get this up so I can get some nap time. You can click them as each level ends, so I’m not cheating you out of the enjoyment of the rest of them. Now for a song that’s been stuck in my head for 2 days. Pretty sure I’ve put it up before, but I’ve got to get it out of my head again.
Only slightly censored. You know the missing words. And then there’s this.
Which leads us inevitably to this. Did you know this was coming? Do you know the release date?
And then this study of what and why the story means.
And the expectations of the world against those who produce versus those who drain.
And Michelle Malkin talking about it.And one quick touch on the purest core of one of the concepts of the whole “Galt” system.
Think of these things. What is the most important level of Maslow’s Heirarchy? That sated, what is the ultimate GOAL?
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Here’s something that will brighten your day.
That jihadi wannabe who threatened the South Park guys will do 25 YEARS! Bwuhahahaha.
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20778&count=0
AWESOME! Now if we can just do something about Shariah in Michigan, or wherever that was.
I remember that oath…..
I feel no guilt whatsoever, not in my life. Nobody owes me, conversely, I do not owe them. To associate with whom I choose, doing what I choose, and all of it, for better or worse, my responsibility and choice to make…….
AYE!!!!!!!!!!!
Re:Atlas Shrugged
According to the “Henry Reardon comes home clip” it is to be released April 15th. How appropriate. This is a must see for all who have read this epic “literary dagwood”(D. Miller). It will be interesting to see if there is any skewing of the randian point of view.
I have read “Atlas Shrugged” just recently for the first time in series with “1984″, “Animal Farm” and “A Brave New World”…I’m in therapy now(lol. Thanks again Dennis). “Atlas Shrugged” didn’t “change my life” as the condescending randian would wish. Just as an aside some of those who worship at the shrine of Ayn Rand are just as scary as some of the charismatic Christians you see at 3 in the morning on the local super station.
To get back on point(as if I really had one)
“Atlas Shrugged” did tie some of the loose ends together as to the morality of “enlightened self interest” and that those who engage in such “selfishness” have created more well being and societal good than all the “altruistic” jackasses preaching the dubious, amorphous and infinitely malleable concepts of “the common good”, “the public interest” and my personal favorite “social justice” put together. If the common good is actually defined in terms of results as opposed to intentions then the second group would be rounded up for crimes against humanity as they have enslaved and impoverished billions and murdered hundreds of millions all on the conceit that those “altruists” were helping the common man. This is a fallacy of altruism as it has nothing to do with the object of the altruism but with moral vanity and ego of the altruist. It is self serving and ultimately destructive to the altruist, his object and society at large. Also keep in mind that a lot of these altruists also believe in abortion, euthanasia, the banning of DDT, the banning of genetically modified grains for impoverished nations,a de facto moratorium on any activity that may exacerbate their mythical dogma of Anthropogenic Global Warming abjure the dissemination of the best way to prevent the spread of AID’s, and turn a blind eye to genocides committed by totalitarian thugs the world over all because quite a substantial portion of these “altruists’ see humans a pestilence to be controlled and eventually eradicated…except of course for their own enlightened selves. They love humanity in the abstract but hate human beings in the concrete as they wish to diminish those they consider lesser being to a Hobbesian existence.
Ultimately, those who preach about the “greed” of the self interested are the moral reprobates as they wish to profit from their own inadequacy, elevating need to the highest virtue. They wish to harness those who produce a viable product or service to the yoke that assuages their over inflated moral vanity.
Our current resident of the oval office does not grasp this concept as more and more businesses resist his amoral preening and subtly are starting to resist playing his cynical game. Obama ‘s ideological blinders do not allow him to understand(at least if you believe the “good intentions” crowd exemplified by the pseudo conservative gentry of Frum, Brooks and Medved) that demonization of those who produce and provide gainful employment and institutionalized theft for arbitrary redistribution create the “strike” of capital(monetary and intellectual) against the amoral looters.
I give Obama no such benefit of the doubt he is the point man for nihilist marxists who wish to force the world into an elitist technocracy(i.e. the ideal of scientific socialism) where so called experts make all the decisions and diminish the sovereign individual into objects for the disposal of the arrogant and insolent.
I tend to think that the reason Rand wouldn’t “change our lives” is that WE already have that point of view. I’m quite sure many who never gave it thought then did, and it altered their perspective. Or at least many of them.
CM says
This is certainly true. If had had read “Atlas Shrugged” as little as ten years ago I may have rejected Rand’s premise out of hand. But after years of reading authors like Thomas Sowell, Victor Hanson, Jonah Goldberg et. al. and blogs like yours and Misha’s people who have an actual grip on reality I was ready to grasp what she had to say and for the most part agree with it.
A thing, once read, stays in your mind.