Preach it, brother!

[thewayne]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. --John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey

I tried reading The Fountainhead once as I could find it as a free ebook. Rand was just a horrible author, it was unreadable for me. I've read reviews of her political philosophy by professional political scientists and philosophers, and they say it's unbelievably puerile and poorly conceived. Yet it is the gospel for the Teabaggers.

I have a file of phrases on my iPhone in the Notes app, this one has been there for a few years now.

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

I know I expressed disbelief about this to someone, I'm not sure who, so I hope I'm not repeating myself, but I saw a tiny part of an interview with her, and she was against any public funding for absolutely anything, including roads. How the hell can a country the size of the US function without public roads? So freaking stupid.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I once saw a bumper sticker that said "If you hate socialism, get off the road!"

Yeah, I've never heard a good answer as to what's going to happen to the infrastructure once they've drowned the government in a bathtub. We are slowly finding out that without road maintenance, people die. There was a recent incident where a huge chunk of concrete fell off a bridge and killed a family of four. The odd thing was that the bit that fell off wasn't near where they were working, so they didn't antiticpate that.