The Reason Why Liberals Think The Way They Do In One Paragraph
I may have already posted this, but I am so bad at the use of a computer that I'm not sure. So, in any case, I'll try again. If two of these appear you can attribute it to my vast computer ignorance.
When I was 14 I read "the Fountainhead." Up ntil then, I thought I was insane because I didn't seem to think like anyone else including my parents, and relatives. But after reading the book and seeing the film, I realized, It wasn't me who was nuts. When "Atlas Shrugged" came out and I bought a soft cover copy I came closer to understanding the liberal mindset. But my title didn't promise you my Odyssey, but understanding liberals in one paragraph. My son and I published comic books or a class of them that are now called "Graphic Novels" or in our case, biographies. We met a cartoonist who was just too damn self-confident, and independent, totally self possessed and self sufficient. All the other cartoonists hated him. It was then I started to understand and formulated the following paragraph:
Independent people were a grave danger to the system. Civil order was not sustainable in a siciety populated by rugged individualists. The dependency of the people was the source of the state's power, and if the state didn't have enormous power, progress could not be achieved or peace sustained in the streets.
And there you have it. If you truly believe in the above, it is easy to see why you'd fight tooth and nail to keep it going But, as any Objectivist knows, that is the complete opposite of the truth. And so, any time the tenets of that paragraph appears, you know where evil lurks, and which side to take in order to oppose it
When I was 14 I read "the Fountainhead." Up ntil then, I thought I was insane because I didn't seem to think like anyone else including my parents, and relatives. But after reading the book and seeing the film, I realized, It wasn't me who was nuts. When "Atlas Shrugged" came out and I bought a soft cover copy I came closer to understanding the liberal mindset. But my title didn't promise you my Odyssey, but understanding liberals in one paragraph. My son and I published comic books or a class of them that are now called "Graphic Novels" or in our case, biographies. We met a cartoonist who was just too damn self-confident, and independent, totally self possessed and self sufficient. All the other cartoonists hated him. It was then I started to understand and formulated the following paragraph:
Independent people were a grave danger to the system. Civil order was not sustainable in a siciety populated by rugged individualists. The dependency of the people was the source of the state's power, and if the state didn't have enormous power, progress could not be achieved or peace sustained in the streets.
And there you have it. If you truly believe in the above, it is easy to see why you'd fight tooth and nail to keep it going But, as any Objectivist knows, that is the complete opposite of the truth. And so, any time the tenets of that paragraph appears, you know where evil lurks, and which side to take in order to oppose it
66 was a good age. Far better than never. I'll bet you knew it all the time, but just didn't conceptualize it with any formal thinking until A.R.In any case, once the light is turned on, welcome to the true human race.
I want my government to provide for me, I want free stuff, I do not want to work.
An uneducated populous is much easier to control then an educated populous. I think its that simple, which is sad…
They know not civil order...that's why today's order is uncivil.
I like the paragraph though...it's true...but my job is to answer the Why are they so screwed up.
I could not answer that question as eloquently as you. Laughing...if I could, it wouldn't be worth writing a second book on the subject.
One of the problems I always had with Ms. Rand was her seeming lack of humor. In person, it was always present, in writing, not so much.