I get mail, Objectivistly speaking.

Responding to my post regarding totalitarian panic over ID requirements for voters (Is that Robert Byrd in your pocket, or are you just tired?),



Bohemian Like You said...

Someone call the hyperbole cops on these idiots...

This reminds me of an Ayn Rand quote I saw and then posted on my site the other day.

It goes a little something like this:

"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology." ~Ayn Rand


I must reiterate: That Ayn Rand stuff just creeps me out. After slogging through Atlas Shrugged in high school, I thought "So what?" People don't and won't think that way, much less act that way.

The clincher came later when I learned Ayn Rand was just another idiot human with a messed up personal life. Human nature always gets in the way.

Memo to anyone who believes in (or is looking for) a "system": Systems do not work with humans. Hence the genius of the Catholic Church. It knows humans never change.

Anyway, invoking the Theory of Politically Friendly Forces, yadda, yadda, yadda...

B.L.Y. has a point. Those of us who can still think must stop the totalitarians from controlling the language. (Remember when you could use the word "gay"* properly without drawing snickers?) The only way to do this is to get your kids out of the government schools.

Then, after a couple generations of hard work, we won't have to worry as much about the fascists defining the terms of debate and corrupting the pursuit of knowledge.

BTW, hyperbole cops???!!! If those babykilling nazi shilpit wee nyaffs ever read this, I am doomed.

* 1 a : happily excited : MERRY b : keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits

2 a : BRIGHT, LIVELY b : brilliant in color

3 : given to social pleasures; also : LICENTIOUS