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...
Yahoo News has a humdinger this morning:
The company behind the film Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is replacing 100,000 title sheets from the film’s newly released DVD and Blue Ray versions because the copy writer incorrectly described the late Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, as a story of “self-sacrifice.”
Put simply, that’s like calling Michael Moore a tea partier.
Rand, who in 1964 published a collection of essays called the The Virtue of Selfishness, renounced self-sacrifice on principle. She famously argued that altruism must be rejected “if any civilization is to survive.”
As the producers noted in an apology announcement, Rand’s work extols “a society driven by rational self-interest.” On the back of the film’s retail DVD and Blu-ray however, the movie’s synopsis contradictorily states “AYN RAND’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life…'”
++Raspy sigh++. Feeling for the producers, here. It’s a form of fucking pollution. Some days, you just can’t get away from it.
Now we get to the funny part: The collectivist-minded folk are having a field day over this, gloating up a storm as only they can. The schadenfreude I can understand, I suppose…why the gloating?
What lesson is to be learned from this: Statists have been getting their message disseminated, throughout the recent generations, by indoctrinating the weak-minded who don’t actually take the time to study or read things. Were we to re-live the twentieth century a hundred more times, it would probably work out that way a hundred more times, because that is their nature. A collectivist economic model driven by the superficial appearance of self-sacrifice, intertwines itself with intellectual laziness, because the two go hand-in-hand. Is there any other way to distill the moral of this real-life parable?
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Finally saw it Thursday Night with our Tea Party group. Pretty good. I promptly ordered it.
Of course, I never read the book so I don’t know how it all works out — so I don’t know what to expect in part 2 … hope they’re making it.
- philmon | 11/14/2011 @ 10:06