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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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Sunday, October 05, 2003
BetterVegas: Strip transportation: Who is wrong? Two articles in this morning's Las Vegas Review Journal on Strip transportation issues. One, on the proliferation of bicycle-rickshaws, is not without merit in the present context, although the obvious solution of putting the rickshaws on the street at the expense of all those awful cars is only mentioned in passing. The other is a typical Puff Vegas piece, where never is heard a discouraging word: The Nowhere Train, the way-off-strip monorail that will serve the extreme back entrances of certain casinos, turns out to be the most amazing thing ever built in Las Vegas. All the usual Boosters claim that tourists can barely restrain their desire to go from where they don't want to be to where they don't want to be. So much so that there is a proposal to build another Nowhere Train to run along the I-15 freeway, a mere half-mile walk from each of the casinos it will serve. Now, if we can outlaw those pesky bicycle-rickshaws while casinos and taxpayers piss away billions on these Nowhere Trains, the real mass transportation problem on The Strip will remain unresolved, but at least it will have been addressed. By boneheads, albeit, but it seems that mass transportation problems are always "solved" by boneheads. The alternative is that I am wrong, that the Nowhere Trains will succeed, will not be foisted off on the taxpayers of Las Vegas, and the pedestrian and automobile traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard will be alleviated. That would imply that people would prefer to walk half-a-mile to the monorail station, and half-a-mile back, rather than driving, walking or rickshawing directly to their destinations. If anyone thinks this is a likely proposition, I will happily entertain wagers. Someone is wrong, but it ain't me. |
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