The Secret
That noted Communist rag, Forbes, is at it again.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/11/why-the-we-are-the-53-tumblr-matters-its-the-culture-war-stupid/
Conservative individualism - the sense that one’s success and failure is dictated solely in terms of an atomic struggle - sits at the heart of most of these tumblrs. In this view of the world, outside inputs have no bearing at all on individual output. Wall Street is just another independent force. Somehow the market crash of 2008, the housing bubble, the ability to get government loans or work for the military, these are all the work of individuals with no collective effort or commitment or external influence whatsoever.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/13/the-we-are-the-53-tumblr-is-heartbreaking/
The notion that this is the American dream, that men diagnosed with a horrible cancer should work 72 hours a week to support their families, is deeply tragic.
The military weighs in:
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/11/340150/individualists-in-the-marine-corps/
I don’t want to be in the position of telling a veteran that I know his business better than he does, but that would be a mighty strange kind of military in which solidarity, teamwork, and the effective operation of a large public bureaucracy play no role.
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003561.html
I look at that and it tells me that I've failed, you've failed, we've all failed, and because of that we're all going to die. These people not only won't fight the killer billionaires stomping on their windpipe, they'll brag about getting stomped on and ask for more.
PS: why do so many Americans pay no income tax? Babies! Those scum-sucking parasites.
God Bless the 53% and their plans for 300% employment. At least they're not whiners! All we need is positive thinking; and the economy will be back to growing like cancer.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/11/why-the-we-are-the-53-tumblr-matters-its-the-culture-war-stupid/
Conservative individualism - the sense that one’s success and failure is dictated solely in terms of an atomic struggle - sits at the heart of most of these tumblrs. In this view of the world, outside inputs have no bearing at all on individual output. Wall Street is just another independent force. Somehow the market crash of 2008, the housing bubble, the ability to get government loans or work for the military, these are all the work of individuals with no collective effort or commitment or external influence whatsoever.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/13/the-we-are-the-53-tumblr-is-heartbreaking/
The notion that this is the American dream, that men diagnosed with a horrible cancer should work 72 hours a week to support their families, is deeply tragic.
The military weighs in:
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/11/340150/individualists-in-the-marine-corps/
I don’t want to be in the position of telling a veteran that I know his business better than he does, but that would be a mighty strange kind of military in which solidarity, teamwork, and the effective operation of a large public bureaucracy play no role.
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003561.html
I look at that and it tells me that I've failed, you've failed, we've all failed, and because of that we're all going to die. These people not only won't fight the killer billionaires stomping on their windpipe, they'll brag about getting stomped on and ask for more.
PS: why do so many Americans pay no income tax? Babies! Those scum-sucking parasites.
God Bless the 53% and their plans for 300% employment. At least they're not whiners! All we need is positive thinking; and the economy will be back to growing like cancer.