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...
One of the many problems with the protest mentality that’s become popular over the last fifty to eighty years, is the most obvious one, that it creates a toxic and troubling epoxy by mixing raw emotion with inimical sentiment. Raw emotion tends to eclipse rational thought, and when you see a negotiating partner as an enemy it gets much harder to see the situation from his perspective.
And so, for the Occupy Wall Street crowd, we have a handy primer, of sorts, about what it really takes to provide these jobs they’re supposed to be wanting.
You think a job is some sort of entitlement — like it should just be there for you. But you’ve got to realize that a real person has to bust his butt in order to create that job.
When you say, “Dude, where’s my job?” what you’re really saying is, “Dude, put your financial and emotional well-being on the line by quitting your day job and hanging out a shingle. Be smart and diligent enough to come up with a good product, and hope that you can sell enough of that product to have enough revenue to hire and pay me.”
Most people would never in a million years go through all the B.S. involved in starting a business and creating a job.
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Conservatives have an instrumentalist view of life. This is the kernel of truth in the leftist description of conservatives as “the selfish party” — before undertaking an endeavor, we want to know what’s in it for us. How does it get us closer to our goals?
Leftists, on the other hand, have this categorical view of things. “Jobs,” “the Rich,” “social justice” — these are all just things that exist somewhere out there in the ether, and they’re good or bad in themselves.
Take college education. Most of my friends who majored in engineering or comp sci couldn’t see the point of humanities classes. I want to design airplanes, they’d say. What good does Shakespeare do me? If they could get away with taking nothing but math classes they would. If they could get a job at Boeing by going to a community college, they’d do that. If they could get that job by working on the shop floor straight out of high school, they’d do that, because they want to be aircraft designers and will take the simplest, most direct path to that goal.
Leftists, on the other hand, always natter on about “Education.” “Education” is the solution to everything from the Israel/Palestine conflict to racism to men leaving the toilet seat up. Education in what, we conservatives always ask… and they never have an answer. Cf. the Bammer’s goal to up the number of college grads in America. Graduates in what? Graduating from where? Possessing which skills? Ten thousand new Wymyn’s Studies majors will contribute exactly nothing to the public fisc — and everyone knows this — but to leftists, it doesn’t matter. They’re College Graduates, and Education is Good.
Unfortunately, they also apply this attitude to “Jobs.” To them, “Jobs” bear no relationship to economic activity, because commerce is icky (those grody frat boys who majored in “business” all work there, and those meat-heads can’t even spell “heteronormativity”). The solution to our economic problems is simple — give everyone a Job! (The constitution of the USSR actually guaranteed every Soviet citizen a job). If only we could send in the government to pry the keys to the Jobs Vault away from the Corporate Fatcats TM and scatter Jobs across the land, we’d all be farting through silk.
(But not very stressful Jobs, thank you very much. No filing, no light typing, and certainly no lifting of objects up to 50 lbs. No phone-answering, no TPS reports, no mandatory overtime to meet deadlines… but with full medical and dental, six months’ paid paternity leave for our lesbian partners, three weeks’ vacation per year, and the ability to leave early if we’re needed down at the anti-capitalism protest).
I don’t know where this fits into your “architects v. medicators” paradigm, but it’s gotta be there somewhere….
- Severian | 12/15/2011 @ 09:04That pretty much is the paradigm. Architect see the word “job” as describing an event of barter…or rather, a sequence of events of barter, each one concluded when the paycheck is issued. Medicators see that word as describing a personal asset.
There’s a scene in that movie I droned on about, where Justin Timberlake literally breaks into a vault full of time, which in this movie is The Coveted Asset. He retreats from the gaping hole in the wall, steps over the shattered bricks lying on the ground, and intones to the assembled crowd of bewildered and deprived onlookers that they should help themselves. Lucky them, they were closest!
Revolutionary’s wet dream movie scene. You could play it over and over again and insert it in hundreds of “Oscar nomination material” movies throughout the generations, just photoshopping in whatever Coveted Asset would be appropriate for each film. No need to re-do it at all.
- mkfreeberg | 12/15/2011 @ 09:39