tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686367864250239822.post4538510682381018917..comments2018-04-22T14:48:34.661+01:00Comments on Jerub-Baal's Spleen Vent: Where Are They Going With This?Tomrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15442487511149915434noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686367864250239822.post-89197981092579233242011-05-10T11:45:41.441+01:002011-05-10T11:45:41.441+01:00Leg-iron,
Indeed; I actually went to see the auth...Leg-iron,<br /><br />Indeed; I actually went to see the authors of <i>The Spirit Level</i> in a lecture at my last job (at a university); I couldn't believe what I was hearing when they were calling for technological advances in mobile telephony to cease as we "had advanced it enough already". Insane.<br /><br />There is a character, a tramp who previously worked at the factory that John Galt started working at, in Atlas Shrugged who phrases his downfall, and that of the worlds, best: "the morality of cannibalism". <br /><br />Dammit I cant wait to see what they've done to the theatrical version of that book...Tomrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15442487511149915434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686367864250239822.post-86528991400604221772011-05-10T02:26:34.909+01:002011-05-10T02:26:34.909+01:00See, it's all the fault of you nonsmokers. I h...See, it's all the fault of you nonsmokers. I have to smoke twice as much because you won't do your share. And I'm not even gay.<br /><br />Which probably means some other guy has to be twice as gay because I'm not doing my share. Then again, Julian Clary offsets about fifty straight guys so he alone can soak up the excess gayness in the world.<br /><br />Then there are all those tea-totallers. Do they have any idea what they're doing to my liver? If only they'd drink their fair share.<br /><br />It is a ridiculous concept, isn't it? But then the whole idea of 'equality' is ridiculous. <br /><br />I can't run, so should all sprinters have iron balls attached to their ankles? I can't fly a plane so should all pilots be grounded? I don't understand quantum physics so dismantle that cyclotron at once.<br /><br />'Equality' is a terrible thing, a world in which everyone is equal is a dreadful nightmare. A world of plastic people, all the same size, all washing their cars on Sunday and all cutting the grass on Saturday and all going to the office to do the same job every day.<br /><br />All getting the same pay which they use to buy the same things, all going to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time and none allowed to be artists or writers or academics in case the others feel left out.<br /><br />That's where it's headed. Anyone different must be made to feel guilty and get into line.<br /><br />Plastic Planet is just around the corner.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.com