I’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my fourth cycle of twenty-something year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts.
@Theblueone LOL. I read Atlas Shrugged when I was in college in the 1980s. I thought it was a good novel. Then I learned some people thought it was a good model for government. As a history major I was like 😆😆😆 Happy that was pre internet and podcasts
I quit Reddit when I was about 56 for this exact reason;
"I’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my 4th cycle of twenty year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts."
I just heard “let me tell you about this criticism of woke culture that I learned in the weight room - there’s this thing called radical responsibility where you own everything that happens to you…” and threw my phone across the room.
@Theblueone
I’ve listened to Rollins for years on KCRW out of Santa Monica. He doesn’t completely fit the format of the station’s eclectic format but pulls it off easily and provides cover to station management regarding inclusiveness of all formats.
The myth that fractional reserve banking creates the money supply and is somehow the root of what is wrong with fiat currencies, became my gateway drug into the deep libertarian rabbit hole of goldbugs, crypto, Ayn Rand, von Mises, gun owners, climate science denialism, and Bilderberg conspiracy nuts.
@Theblueone I'm 57 and endured two long-term relationship cycles with those fuckers before I smartened up. One was dependent on me for spousal support for years – so radically responsible! 🙃
@Theblueone ICYMI: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." --John Rogers, Ephemera 2009 (7), Kung Fu Monkey blog, March 19, 2009. @keira_reckons
@Theblueone Feel this so much. Almost makes one nostalgic for the days when PEDs were easier to get than weed, the newly minted pseudointellectuals read things like Albert Camus too, and they were somehow around enough women to consider women people. Those glorious days of yore. Or something.
"Since 1973, however, free-market theorists had re-emerged, vociferous and confident, to blame endemic economic recession and attendant woes upon ‘big government’ and the dead hand of taxation and planning that it placed upon national energies and initiative...
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@Theblueone …In many places this rhetorical strategy was quite seductive to younger voters with no first-hand experience of the baneful consequences of such views the last time they had gained intellectual ascendancy, half a century before. But only in Britain were the political disciples of Hayek and Friedman able to seize control of public policy and wreak a radical transformation in the country’s political culture."
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