Correcting
a truly spectacular typo.
A
wonderful parody of science journalism: the comments are brilliant too.
Amusing skit on Green voters.
Media outlets
refusing to run an issue of Non Sequitur manage to make the cartoonists’ point.
It’s John Scalzi, he is writing about Atlas Shrugged:
enjoy.
A website explaining
the Hockney-Falco thesis
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Whereas I always felt the point was that he couldn't and he was apparently the only one who understood he couldn't. Galt always came across like an adult in a society of children who believed, with the naiveté and wonder typical to children that because he was a grown-up, he could do anything.But the sad reality was there were limits to his ability to fix things and they were inadequate for how far gone things were. Take for instance his suggestions to Thompson for what he'd do if he were an "economic dictator". Massive, sweeping reforms that would cause widespread chaos and disruption - Thompson is quite right that they were impractical. Galt's mind just doesn't work effectively on any ( ... )
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Your interpretation seems more Randian to me.
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Still an influentual book in terms of my worldview, I must admit.
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One is reminded of the withdrawal of the learned to the monasteries in the final century of the Roman Empire.
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I don't know if that's more of an insult to Aspies or to Randroids.
Or is that the famous Asperger's “No Sense of Humour” showing itself?
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