Yeah, the aughts have sucked donkey dong, and here’s TIME with The 10 Worst Things About the Worst Decade Ever … but I’m pretty sure 1929-1939 was far worse than what we’ve gone through lately.
The TIME piece is, however, more evidence that we’re the biggest collection of whiny ass babies in our country’s history though. So we’ve got that going for us.
Make sure to check out the customer-submitted pictures.
Mesmerizing…
This is actually from a PBS series, believe it or not. Work it, girl!
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I haven’t been a fan of Slate since the pre-WaPo days, but this biography of that raving sociopathic waste known as Alissa Rosenbaum/Ayn Rand is quite good. In case you were wondering, the article is much fairer than the adjectives in my previous sentence… but comes to largely the same conclusion (though it does not address my clinical diagnosis of “sociopath”).
I will never understand why Rand is so popular among the far right and “libertarians” of this country. Let me rephrase – I can understand why the philosophy of utter narcissism may be appealing, but am unable to understand how anyone could devote themselves to it. Add in that her writing is sub-Twilight/Dan Brown-level bad, the dialogue wooden and worse than something from the Cultural Revolution, and that at some point, the reader must come into contact with another human being and I just don’t see its appeal.
Check that, Rand nails the mental makeup of the current American right:
Her heroes are a cocktail of extreme self-love and extreme self-pity: They insist they need no one, yet they spend all their time fuming that the masses don’t bow down before their manifest superiority.
Spot on.
Add in that the narcissism of Wall Street (who are obviously the producers and not the lice, right Mr. Greenspan) and I can see this appealing to an insular little group of aristocrats… but how on earth did our financial policy become beholden to this group of retards?
I encourage all Objectivists to go Galt. Immediately. And/or talk to a girl. I’m not sure which will happen first.
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