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There's a good reason Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy holding "History of the National Security State". If we don't live for others, h
by tinglymintyfrsh 4y ago
There's a good reason Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy holding "History of the National Security State".
If we don't live for others, he who dies with most toys still wins a lonely, meaningless death. I believe Ayn had a chip on her shoulder from growing up in the Soviet Union and took an extremist contrarian view rather than a moderate one. Extremism is often what catapults people into fame.
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." -G.V.
- jfengel 4y agoI'd only note that the Vidal quote is from 1975. Much has happened since then. To oversimplify (as he does), I'd say that both parties leaned very hard into his descriptions of them. They've exchanged members and eliminated nearly all of the overlap. So much so that I'd deny that they are really "one party", if they ever were.