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...
Thanks go to blogger friend Rick for the find.
The pointlessness to trying, that is made manifestly clear by this cartoon, is the key to dividing and conquering the enemy I think. He presents a unified front in dismissing the idea that the economy may very well lose its oomph with extravagant entitlement programs, soaring debt and ever-more-progressive tax policies. But the enemy is not unified, in spite of appearances, when he snickers and laughs at us as we point out the obvious.
His leadership, I think, knows we are right. You can tell by what remedies are designed, packaged, and proposed to us. It goes back to my observation that unpleasant things are never bad for the environment. Never, never, not ever. Cushy toilet paper that feels good on your derriere, is destroying the planet — crappy, scratchy, substandard utilitarian-grade sandpaper is never destroying the planet. Just the good stuff.
I think the leadership understands the point being made. When there is no payoff for real success, the incentive disappears. The economy is driven by individual incentive. They only dismiss this because they have to. When everything they want done, is designed to remove the joy from living any & all life save for those lifestyles most dilatory, it’s clear what they’re trying to do. So they aren’t really dismissing the idea.
Their dismissal is amplified by the huge layer of useful idiots, underneath them, who genuinely doubt it. In their small minds, there is one reason and one reason alone to champion the cause of any one class, even to defend the class when it is under attack: You’re afraid the victim will be heckled and hounded into some kind of statistical or financial oblivion. And so they snicker, they chortle, they roll their eyes and make sarcastic comments — anything to avoid facing the truth, that when we tax “the rich” punitively we’re really taxing our children and grandchildren.
And then there is the even bigger layer of useful idiots underneath them who don’t even think things out that far. These are the “pie people” who think if one guy’s pie slice is larger, nevermind the reason, someone else’s slice must have been made smaller and now we need to have Soshul Jusstuss. This bottom-layer of useful-idiot, ironically enough, thinks we are the useful idiots. They think “Wall Street” has sent us into the heartland to join the Tea Party, to do their bidding. For free.
But the truth is that there are some powerful economic forces around the world, with much to gain if the mightiest financial superpower the planet has ever seen — can be somehow brought down to its knees. And that will certainly happen if the individual incentive is removed from the equation…if it is just too much of a pain in the ass to try to get ahead, and nobody bothers anymore. It’s a serious issue. Talk to anyone who has actually managed to put the family dynasty on top…not to inherit it, but to start out low, and end up high. Ask them what it took. If President Soetoro is right and we’re all better off if we spread the wealth around, it’s just a natural consequence of that new policy of “change” to say — fuggedabowdit. Let’s all just clamor for our social justice, for our 35-hour weeks and our 70 days of paid vacation every year, and we’ll all just sit around swanky bistros sipping Turkish coffee all day talking about bullshit.
Of course, as Jonah Goldberg points out — if America is going to become just another European country, then someone, somewhere, is going to have to become the new America.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 04/14/2010 @ 05:44… if America is going to become just another European country, then someone, somewhere, is going to have to become the new America.
And that country may not share our commitment to human rights, restraint in the use of force, or other ideals which have historically set us apart from other superpowers. Does anyone think for a minute that China, for instance, shares our values and would act as responsibly as we have?
- cylarz | 04/16/2010 @ 11:33