Comments on: Another Day at the Freak Show http://www.newclarion.com/2009/01/another-day-at-the-freak-show/ Our mission is to combat the unreason and selflessness that are sweeping our culture from the nihilist left to the religious right, and to sound a new ideal of capitalism and individual rights in American politics. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Galileo Blogs http://www.newclarion.com/2009/01/another-day-at-the-freak-show/#comment-294 Galileo Blogs Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:38:09 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/2009/01/another-day-at-the-freak-show/#comment-294 Real life imitates fiction, or fiction is all too real. These corrupt and mediocre fiends are just like the corrupt and mediocre villains in Atlas Shrugged. Corrupt, yes. Mediocre, in spades. These dimunitive monsters feast on the living flesh of the productive, but all of it is made possible by the morality -- altruism -- that says it is their right to do so. As long as what they steal is for a "noble cause" [feed the poor, save the economy, save the whales, whatever] then thievery (and a whole lot worse that we have yet to see) is justified. Real life imitates fiction, or fiction is all too real. These corrupt and mediocre fiends are just like the corrupt and mediocre villains in Atlas Shrugged. Corrupt, yes. Mediocre, in spades. These dimunitive monsters feast on the living flesh of the productive, but all of it is made possible by the morality — altruism — that says it is their right to do so.

As long as what they steal is for a “noble cause” [feed the poor, save the economy, save the whales, whatever] then thievery (and a whole lot worse that we have yet to see) is justified.

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