If you're anything like me (and if so I pity you), you might have found yourself muddling your way through Ayn Rand's overlong Objectivist screed, Atlas Shrugged, and wished that the tract-in-novel's-clothing featured more scenes of guys in colorful spandex costumes beating the shit out of each other.
It's a logical (or should I say "reasonable") enough response to the book, and we're fortunate that Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #5 (November 1968; by D.C. Glanzman & Steve Ditko) has anticipated such a desire.
WOO-HOO! Go reasoned self-interest! Compromise and doubt is for moral looters, or even worse, hippies...
To think it took Rand, speaking through the character of John Galt, over fifty pages of speechifying to express the same sentiments.
Right-libertarians are not like you (I would hope) or I, and I thank Providence for that every chance I get.
Shriekback - Health and Knowledge and Wealth and Power (from Oil and Gold, 1985) - Can all be yours (though in all likelihood not), if you decide to smother any spark of compassion or empathy in favor of a ideology predicated on rational self-interest (also known as "narcissistic solipsism").
(An ideology unto himself.)
Friday, January 18, 2008
Friday Night Fights: Tis the Season for Reason
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Woohoo! Shriekback!
awesome fight, but a little tame
Tame?
Do you not realize that nothing short of the eternal battle between collectivism and self-interest is occuring in those panels?
What I always loved about Ditko is how all his characters always been these philosophical voiceboxes, and they all solve their problems by clubbing guys in the face.
Lame? This is a fight that takes place not merely on the physical but the cultural and social level as well! Triple action!
Also: Best. Label. Ever.
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