I'm afraid that I did read Atlas Shrugged, as well as a few of Ayn Rand's philosophical screeds (thinly disguised as serious essays), and fell for it completely. I espoused objectivist philosophy everywhere I went, disdained charity, proclaimed enlightened self interest, etc.
Then I turned 18, and saw what a load it was.
These days I liken the objectivism as akin to communism, in that it's a lovely idea but utterly impractical and absolutely unworkable in a world made up of human beings.
Yeah, another dictator would be the best option at at this point, it seems. When we got rid of Hussein we got rid of the one guy who seemed to be able to keep all of the centuries-old ethnic and religious divisions to a tolerable level of hatred and strife. It just baffles me that the Bush administration didn't take this into consideration when they were supposedly planning this fiasco -- but perhaps they were just too caught up in revenging the death threat against Bush, Sr.
In his blog, Bob Greenburger, one of the editors of the WWN, wrote this:
Friday morning, Jeff Rovin comes in for a meeting and then the staff was to be called in. He’s looking harried, not at all relaxed. At 11:30, we’re finally shown into an office where we are told the Board of Directors has chosen to close Weekly World News. The reasons given make no sense. We’re stunned and shell-shocked. We’re to stay on through August 3, finishing the reprint issues and then we’re done. A glorious, funny, odd publication, born in 1979, will go out with a whimper and all I can think is that something’s going on that they’re not telling us because it just doesn’t make sense.
"It just doesn't make sense..." Perhaps a scoop is in the making here. It all kind of reminds me of when Art Bell "retired" for the first time, and did nothing to quell the rumors that he had been visited by "government agents" demanding that he keep quiet.
I'll bet a doughnut this is a publicity ploy on the part of WWN; they're going to claim the government forced them to shut down, but they'll be back in a few months with new breaking stories about angels sitting in on Presidential cabinet meetings.
Then again, maybe not.
I was quickly banned from Conservapedia myself (partially for my article about the famous home schooled Christian H. P. Lovecraft, whose novel "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" was an allegory of a Christian journey of discovery). What surprises me is that many of the edits I made are still there; like the one about Bill Clinton (the "devil incarnate" comment isn't mine, but everything in that paragraph after that is). Shocking!
But that video... Oh, dear God, it burns us!
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