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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Still the same old gas... Following up on yesterday, now Arizona state officials are actively promoting anti-'gouging' laws for gasoline prices. This Arizona Republic article is filled with economic insipidities, but there is an actual fact in it, tucked in by accident: "If a retailer can't sell his fuel for what it's worth, he may say to hell with it and not even open," [National Conference of State Legislatures Energy Policy Specialist Troy] Gagliano said. "You run that risk if you demand that these guys open their stations and sell at a certain cost."If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of Atlas Shrugging. And why not? Listen to this great lover of liberty: "That has a foul odor to it," [Republican Rep. Joe Hart] said. "I believe in the free enterprise system, and I think the free market should prevail. But if they can cripple us like this, I think we better look [into] it."If you have trouble understanding this, just remember that 'free enterprise system' is code for: Rotarian Socialism. Then it makes perfect sense. And the freedom-loving Joe Hart blesses us with even more wisdom: "I just can't believe we just have a single source for our most valuable resource in the state."'Our' most valuable 'resource' (the 'scare quotes' denote Rotarian Socialist fallacies) is the human mind--millions or many or at least one--unbendingly rational. But I can tell Joe Hart why there is only one gasoline pipeline into Phoenix: It's because of the boob-infested Rotarian Socialist federal, state, county and city governments, Joe. The people who presume to permit and forbid at gunpoint. It's because of of morons just like you, Joe. Create a bad situation by forbidding competition. Then make it worse by preventing the price system from regulating demand. And color it as 'consumer protection' for all the unminded unhumans who will bend without limit, provided they never have to be rational. How is it that we have long gas lines just like the Communists? It's because we have Socialism--ours is Rotarian-flavored--just like the Communists. Monday, August 18, 2003
Phoenix gas shortage: Whatever we do, it better not make sense! Phoenix is in the midst of a minor gasoline shortage. Thanks to the idiot media, it is being hyped into a crisis. Sheep run in herds, and yesterday they all ran off to top off their tanks, sucking inventories down toward zero. All sane people know what should happen in such a circumstance, in a free market. Owners of supply, at every stage of the distribution chain, should raise prices to clear demand. But this is a new kind of idea, having been elucidated only 227 years ago, and it hasn't caught on with the hard-headed entrepreneurs who run gas stations. Nor has it sunk into the grotesque skull of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano: Many customers complained that gas stations were artificially raising prices, and that drew a quick rebuke from Napolitano.You better not do as you choose with your own property. You better not make the only change that will cause sheep to grumble about unfairness--but stay home. You better not induce rational behavior among the habitually irrational. You better not do the one thing that will make sure there is a least a drop of gas available for ambulances. You better not use your mind! The simple fact is that people live in Phoenix because of idiotic government 'investments'. We are addicted to automobiles here because of streets, roads and highways that no profit-seeking business ever would have built. In a free America, Phoenix would be what it always was: A failed and abandoned waterless back-water. Instead it is home to three million people spread across a region larger than Europe. Three million pretend Goldwaters who make believe they are conservative and individualistic and freedom-loving and independent, all while they suck the desert dry with myriad socialist boondoggles. They are as radically different from Europeans as prunes are from plums. And like the Europeans, the people of Phoenix have their very own dictator, to demand that they undertake only those actions that are most perfectly wrong, and to do them in unison, in the joyously huddled herds of self-satisfied sheep. |
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