About the light posting

Under the weather.  Don't know if it is the flu, but suspect so.  Less than two weeks after my previous doctor visit.  Didn't want to go back so soon unless things got bad enough.

I think it is improving, but it was pretty bad.

The illness was one part.  The other part is the reassessment that I've been doing.  Of the blog, of the nature of things as they are and so forth.

I get the impression that something really bad is ongoing and may be unstoppable.  In such a case, what do you do about it?  You could try to argue, but what if no one cares, or bothers to listen?  You could drop out, Ayn Rand style and/or "go Galt".  You could follow Dr. Helen's advice--- read the book and Enjoy the Decline. 

Then, there's Marco Rubio's SOTU response.  Very insipid.  I wanted something stirring.  Instead, it looked boring even in writing.

The country is being lost because there is no inspiration and no leadership---except on the wrong side.

What can you do about this?  Really?

Then, I just came across this post by Ace, in which I quote something I find remarkable:

People who are greatly accomplished sometimes have a difficult time acting as if they're not greatly accomplished, and sometimes act like They Know More Than You, which the American public hates, because people hate things that are obviously true.[ emphasis added]

People hate things that are obviously true.  I can't wrap my head around that one.  Do people live for falsity?  I can't believe people hate someone for being accomplished, or is that the whole point?  Therefore, you have to pretend not to be accomplished, for when you flaunt your accomplishment, people hate you for it.  Just exactly one of the themes of Atlas Shrugged.

The curious thing is the popularity of the book since its release.  It is not as if people are ignorant of Miss Rand's work.  Yet, here it is, happening just as she predicted.

Checked on YouTube where someone said Hitchens destroyed Ayn Rand.  All I found in that video was the typical insults that go for argument amongst the left.  Why is the left so successful when their ideas are so weak and seemingly discredited by history and practice?  Why is the left so successful when their ideas seem so stupid?  Why is the left so impressed with itself when it can't even wipe its own collective drooling chin?

Why do people follow this stupidity and foolishness?  Why would people willingly descend into madness and ineffectual government and decaying society?  Polls don't reflect approval of things being ship shape, but the thought runs through my mind that people want even more of this crap!

Something has snapped in this country.  It's like an illness, it has to run its course.