Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I had to highlight it even though it’s nothing more than just another racist pinhead spewing bile.
It’s part of a big social phenomenon, and a powerful one. Even though it’s wrong.
Our “friend” gets going, on the news of an Atlas Shrugged movie that is increasingly likely to begin filming next year.
I can’t wait for all these rich white assholes to go “Galt.” ‘Galt’ is my word for “go fark yourselves.” Please do it, oh please. Give up tens of thousands in income because you’re too farking stupid to understand progressive taxation. I love it. Let me grab my popcorn.
I hope this movie gets tremendous distribution and does bonkers box office. Everyone should know how utterly shallow, greedy and morally bankrupt this bullshiat is. Then we can bury the skeevy, skanky corpse of that wretched bulldyke Rand for once and for all.
Well, the “rich” part is a relative thing, but I’m a white asshole, and I’m too farking stupid to understand progressive taxation. Someone please explain it to me. But seriously. Nobody gives a rat’s ass if I go Galt. Nevertheless…here’s a news flash…going Galt? It can easily be a passive thing, you know. It doesn’t begin and end with some chatty guy climbing on a soapbox, jabbing his finger in the air, speaking truth to power…et cetera. None of that.
Going Galt is simply a process of deciding something is too much of a pain in the ass and not doing it anymore. Like starting your Saturday morning a little different because Starbucks is a thousand yards away instead of five hundred…and the weather sucks. None of this makes too much sense to the salaried, middle-class wage slave. It’s the folks on the high end and on the low end. The ones thinking about investing in something that would create jobs for others, or simply getting a job. Naw…why bother. Too much of a pain in the ass.
It isn’t an all-or-nothing thing, either. It can be…and is…an incremental thing.
Wake up, folks. The rich white assholes aren’t thinking about going Galt, or contemplating it, or cogitating on it, or hemming-and-hawing about it. We’re there right farking now.
So toss that popcorn baggie in the microwave. Right now. It’s time.
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Aaargh!!! needtoventneedtovenneedtovent Aaargh!!! pant-pant-pant. Whew.
Sorry about that, just had a new neighbor come by for some reason, start in on the economy and segue immediately into “I’m apolitical I never vote they’re all crooks it’s all Bush’s fault you’re a hypocrite for telling me I’m yelling at you onandonandon…” JESUS I hate California sometimes.
Where was I? Oh, yeah, great post as always, Morgan, and right on it, too. The more telling Galt-going is and has always been simply not giving any energy, involvement or money to corruption.
Tom Wolfe has this great story in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test where Kesey gets invited to speak at a huge Anti-Vietnam rally in Berkeley in ’67 or’68. After several hours of the usual suspects pumping up the mob with anti-American ain’t-we-awful and by-God-we’re-gonna-show-em and let’s-power-to-the-people-those-sumbitches the organizers made the mistake of giving Kesey the mike.
Kesey gets up and starting blowing Home on the Range on a harmonica and rambling on about how there was no point in fighting against a war, and getting all het up hassling with the cops and all. “If you see something you don’t like, just walk away and say, ‘Fuck it’. ”
That pretty much let the air out of the riot, right there. And that’s what people are doing right now, even the increasingly red-faced 0bots surreptitiously scraping the “I Love Barry” stickers off their new Toyota Pious. Everybody’s gonna “Go Galt” and just opt out, only the lefties won’t admit it to themselves.
Just walk away and say “Fuck it.”
- rob | 04/03/2009 @ 00:57A very wise man once said to me, “Sometimes ya gotta say, ‘awwww, the fuck with it'”.
I’ve since discovered that he was right.
- pdwalker | 04/03/2009 @ 02:19