Living through this political era is mentally exhausting, mainly because it has lately dawned on me that all the really stupid people are on our side. Why is that?
Doubting Clarence
Dear DC,You've answered your own question. "All the really stupid people" covers everyone on both sides. It cover you, too. The only people to whom it doesn't apply is me, Howard Roark, my Siamese cats and my drinking companions, whoever they are at the moment. Everyone else can go take a flying leap off a fictitious skyscraper for all I care. Being an Individualist and an Objectivist means never having to say you're sorry. YOU are the only important being in all of existence. All other beings are to be used, abused, controlled and ignored. Why do you think I LOVED the Bush Administration? They are all so stupid and yet they are so abusive of all the other stupid people. It's a win-win situation for me.
love Aynnie
oh gosh..NewsPress..you make my job so easy! there he is..on the front page..looking like a wannabe Howard Roark ...taking potshots at public workers behind Wendy McCaw's dress..
now, who does Lanny Ebenstein think he is, a character in an Ayn Rand novel?? this is an anti -worker movement by people who don't work for a living! who were handed everything and keep close to the rich interests that feed them..of course Ayn Rand visions of the tough individual being more desirable than the collective good was very romantic, but not based in reality..no man is an island and the whole process won't work unless you have people contributing and working...even the ones propping up her myth.
and Lanny was on KEYT last night being interviewed by John Palminteri...what a softball fluff piece...no questions about Lanny's grow house/slumlord issues in Eureka?? no questions when Lanny said the public employees compensation might be an issue, but he wasn't sure...geez John, I was expecting you to get down on your knees and start sucking Lanny's dick after that..pathetic excuse for a reporter..the "Palm"...what a putz...WTF is up with reporters in this town!!
and Lanny likes to use Orange County and Vallejo as examples of cities that went bankrupt due to pension obligations..in reality, poor management caused the problems...Vallejo is an old port and military town that lost big in the real estate/ stock market decline, but the city didn't negotiate or plan accordingly..Orange County went belly up in 1994 due to their treasurer, Robert Citron (google him) gambling the city coffers away on derivitives! the City of Santa Barbara finance dept was in the pool and lost about five million dollars on Harriet Miller's watch!! you gotta plug in the holes with facts to get the full story....
ok so are Wendy and Lanny et al part off the Ayn Rand cult?? check this out:Basically, anybody who wants to elevate selfishness and "out for Number One" to the level of a religion quotes Ayn Rand as justification to do so.
Last night, in connection with our long discussion about Randianism, a reader sent me Murray Rothbard's 1972 article, "The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult." It's long, over 8,000 words, but I read the whole thing with engrossing interest at one sitting. Many years ago I read Nathaniel Branden's fascinating, horrifying, and revelatory Judgment Day, and Barbara Branden's The Passion of Ayn Rand, so I knew that Ayn Rand was a crazy dictator, turning her own desires (particularly her desire for the 25-years-younger Nathaniel Branden) into an absolute law of the universe, and that the Rand movement was a cult. But I had no idea of the totalitarian structure of this cult, which Rothbard explains in detail. The Rand movement during its heyday from 1958 to 1968 was a kind of Communist party, demanding of its members absolute obedience and conformity in every area of life, ranging from philosophical beliefs to one's choice of marriage partner (marriage to a non-Randian was forbidden and was grounds for instant expulsion from the movement) to the music one liked to whether one smoked or not (smoking was considered moral and was obligatory, apparently for no other reason than that Rand liked to smoke), and with members constantly being examined for their behaviors and thoughts and continually being expelled from the movement for the slightest failure to conform in all respects; and living in constant fear of expulsion and behaving like robots to avoid expulsion.
I have long said that Rand was a Communist turned inside out, a dictator for individualism. When I said that, I was thinking of her ideas, especially in Atlas Shrugged. But now I've learned that that my comment was not just a metaphor. Now I realize that in practice Rand really was a type of super Stalin, the leader of her own personality cult, surrounded by terrified, self-dehumanized followers...
"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
— Ayn Rand
nonsense!!
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What's up with the lack of venom toward the right in Santa Babara? Who can we assume would be drawn to this precicous, pretentious gem on the coast? Those largely concerned with chasing status, luxury, and loot (theirs of others). Everyone here, even the journalists, are infect with the Privilege of the Wealth. What is privilege according to the law: "A privilege is a special entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis." All these faux politicians and publishers DON'T GIVE A FUCK what the say, write or print as long as it will protect that PRIVILEGE. Piss on Santa Barbara politics! Amen!
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