Fear is the foundation of most governments.
-John Adams
Thursday, December 28, 2006
UNSATISFYING
CAPMAGISTAN
Once again we delve the stygian depths of Ayn Rand's Army of Masturbatory Clones.
Making love to the posthuman Capitalissimo would be like fucking a love pillow that spits in your mouth while talking about genocide as an absolute moral imperative and reaming your ass with a studded metal phallus. And making love as a posthuman Capitalissimo is like fucking a love pillow with your own face digitally printed on its surface and an audiobook of The Wealth of Nations streaming into your ears.
In simpler terms, the whole Randafarian philosophy is but a teabag, dropping on a human face forever.
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Leonard Peikoff, lazy, monstrous, unbelievably proud and unspeakably wicked, smells a shifting of the winds and reprints a garbled mess of fiction fit for the scribbled pamphlet of the local tinfoil transient.
The only way for Peikoff's screed to make sense is for him to completely ignore the Preamble to the Constitution, specifically the part about promoting the general welfare, as well as any notion of a Social Contract. The world he envisions must be a medieval morass of bloodletters and sawn limbs and rusty scalpels, free from the meddlesome hands of regulation and sterilization. Think of the waterheaded, multi-limbed ubermen that might be created in the contaminated labs of Peikoff's wildest dreams!
To (the term here is used loosely) wit:"[I]t is just as apparent if the government were to proclaim a universal right to food, or to a vacation, or to a haircut."
We're certainly with him on the first item. Food is obviously a necessity. Guaranteeing that people are fed, or at least making sure people don't starve, would be a damn good idea. Health care can range from immediately essential (emergency cases) to helping promote the general welfare (preventative care).
But vacations? Haircuts? Only an utterly disingenuous fuckupatamus would conflate survival with leisure and vanity.
To stupidity:"Some people can't afford medical care in the U.S. But they are necessarily a small minority in a free or even semi-free country."
Remember, socialized medicine has destroyed every country that has ever attempted such a dastardly experiment. That's why nobody has ever heard of Australia, Denmark, Germany, Israel, et. al.
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John Stossel's latest corporate-sponsored op-ed dares to ask: Even though nobody cared about trans fats until they turned out to be unnecessary and extremely unhealthy and it wouldn't make economic sense for a restaurant to maintain the option to have your meals made with trans fats, doesn't it make sense to just keep using them because I was paid to say this?
Of course, Mr. Stossel is still totally allowed to use trans fats or lard or bacon leavings in all of his home cooking.
So long as he doesn't seek subsidized health care for his heart disease.
Yessir, a little rational egoism. Because if there's anything a Marine Sniper needs more of, it's ego!
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Ayn Rand was a Class IV Shaman who transducted a multifold dimensional array and pulled a blazing hate-chain of alien logic across the quivering void. It was this sinister and hyperquartite anti-logical particulate that formed the foundation of Objectivist thought.
