A Real Hobbit House
CATO attempts to explain why intellectuals hate capitalism
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-1.html
Interesting. Basically what he’s saying is that intellectuals–those who rocked the Critical Reading portion of the SATs but not necessarily Math–are arrogant fucks who believe that they deserve income proportional to their intellectual value. At a young age they are conditioned by their school enviornment to accept a certain standard of psychosocial norms that do not mimic the rewards system of the real world.
From a skeptic of both extremes of anarchocapitalism and a centrally planned economy, I have to say that the author’s argument is extremely intellectually specious.
Yes, we are arrogant fucks. But I’ve also always found a certain kind of arrogance in using the pronoun “we” in formal writing, as if the author assumes that the reader agrees.
I think the writer forgot that intellectuals have a tendency to hate capitalism because it’s a cannibalistic system which has a tendency to bring out the gaping orifices in personal moral values.
Let’s watch the monkey dance:
Gandhi was right.
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Literally.
What I learned today.
In an effort to revive my dying blog, I’m going to be updating this with a segment I call: “What I learned today.”
It’s function is two-fold: To give my blog content for once and to see what I really do learn over the course of a month.
I learned that there’s a World Toilet Organization that hosts a World Toilet Summit. http://www.worldtoilet.org/ourwork5.asp?no=1
Four year olds are easily impressionable. “Repeat after me. The Holocaust never happened.” Yeah… I keep questionable company.
Dinosaurs were in the civil war. http://io9.com/5084491/the-alternate-history-theme-park-where-dinosaurs-fought-the-civil-war
[edit: Man, this concept was shortlived. I suck.]
Penetrating Wagners “Ring”
Apparently this book used to have some amazing reviews. I still laughed at the few that amazon editors have yet to take down.
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Contemplating Bra Names
Today I bought a couple bras, one at Aerie and the other at Kohls. I find it very bizarre that they are assigning names to styles of bras now. I don’t mean normal style names like “Midnight Magic” or something like that, but actual human female names. Today I bought “Katie” at Aerie and “Haylie” at Kohls (Candie’s brand).
Aerie was giving out $5 coupons to anyone who tried on a bra, so I humored the salesgirl as she explained to another customer and me the different bras– “Katie,” “Paige,” and “Sasha.” (The one with the hooker name was the deep-plunge push-up, of course.) As she was talking, using words like “dramatic” to describe the styles, I couldn’t help but imagine an animated series with characters consisting solely of anthropomorphic bras.
I actually own two “Katies” now and one of them is black.