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We have to stop dancing with those who brung us and embrace thinking that will actually work, instead of the circles of futility much of the debate around GW and AGW has degenerated into.
I get a few hits from objectivists now and then, I figure I’d throw another post up detailing how silly Atlas Shrugged actually is when looked at err…objectively. :)
Shamelessly ripped from the Randzapper blog.
Greed builds a stronger society. Uh-oh...
“But let’s take a closer look. Here are a few political, economic, cultural, and other developments that Atlas failed to foresee:
A period of prosperity commencing in the late ’50s and continuing, with only minor downturns, until the present day. (Atlas foresaw a Great Depression.)
The information revolution – personal computers, the Internet, and loathsome little blogs like this one. (In Atlas, people are still banging away on typewriters and getting their news from newsreels.)
The outsourcing of basic manufacturing industries to Third World countries, and the rise of a service- and information-based economy. (Sayonara, Rearden Steel.)
The eclipse of rail travel by the airline industry, and the eclipse of cargo trains by the trucking industry. (Happy trails, Taggart Transcontinental.)
The ubiquity of television. (Galt’s speech is broadcast mainly on the radio. There is a passing reference to television, but TV does not play any role in the story. This is especially odd since TV was already well established by 1957.)
Americans’ mass immigration to the Sunbelt and the West. (In Atlas, all the financial and commercial action is in New York City and its surrounds. The West is a lot of open desert, suitable for running train tracks through. Colorado is so empty that a whole valley can be hidden there, unknown to the outside world. The South does not appear to exist at all.)
New directions in science. (Gene-splicing, quantum theory, string theory or any equivalents are absent from Atlas, which presents a scientific community still mired in Newtonian assumptions.)
The demise of hats. (Nobody wears hats anymore. In Atlas, everybody does.)
Now, suppose someone had told Ayn Rand fifty years ago, on the day of her book’s triumphant debut, that over the next five decades there would be a significant growth of government spending, taxes, regulations, and controls … and that in the same period of time, there would be unprecedented prosperity, an unrivalled explosion of scientific and technological knowledge, and a blossoming of freedom around the world.
Would she have believed it? No way. In high dudgeon she would have insisted that such an outcome was logically untenable, entailing fatal contradictions.
Yet that’s exactly what has happened.
So … Happy Birthday, Atlas. Enjoy your cake and punch. But don’t party too hearty.
Frankly, dear … you’re showing your age.”
I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad for the nice lady who finally got her drivers license after her 960th try. :)
Not quite the right idea behind parallel parking...
SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean woman who earned a driver’s license after 960 tries is ready to buy a car and get behind the wheel.
Yonhap news agency reported Thursday that 69-year-old Cha Sa-soon passed the driving part of the test last month on her 10th try. South Korea requires a written test first, and Cha took it nearly daily since April 2005 before passing last year.
If you have not been keeping up with the ytube drama that is going on with Thunderfoot and his tangle with Islam I suggest you check out his channel as the smack is being laid down with great alacrity.
Wow a double video post. Crazy, I know, but you really cannot have one without the other. The following is the more scary and less funny of the two.
This is the basis for a good deal of the argumentation in Sam Harris’s The End of Faith. The facet that I wish to point out that is that so called “moderates” of any religion are still responsible for what the crazy whack-a-loons do as they are part of a bullshite system of delusional belief that propagates an irrational view of the world.
A few of my favourites from the Christian Science Monitor Post titled Copy Editing Tea Party Protest signs.
PROBLEM: 'Competnce.' SOLUTION: If English is not your strong suit, try using smaller words and less grammatically complex sentences. For instance, this sign would have imparted the very same message if it had simply read, 'Obama is bad.'
PROBLEM: Homophone confusion, extraneous hyphen. SOLUTION: To communicate first-person plural possession, use the pronoun 'our' instead of the verb 'are.'
The crowning moment of awesome incoming!
PROBLEM: 'Infromed.' SOLUTION: Whatever the merits of Fox News may be, it is no substitute for a dictionary.
Thank you CSM for the pictures and the snark. :)
Wow, you can now watch 3D TV in Canada!
Also known as, you can now watch the crappy commercials and pap they pass off as content with an extra dimension.
The problem is that 3D crap is just as unappealing as the regular 2D crap.
Thanks for the Canadian Cynic for posting this link on his blog, it is really a neat article in the same realm as Libertarian Island and a proposal for for Libertarians. Apologies for the US centric nature, but our own home grown conservative drones are just less auspicious in their fail.
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