I Am Bad At Quora (This is An Apology)

I have been on Quora lately and I follow a few questions some about health and running, you know, because it is sort of part of my job description. I could tell you some interesting things about over-pronation.  But back to the subject.  The other questions I follow are mostly philosophical ones, more specifically the ones that are about Atlas Shrugged, Fountain Head or Objectivism.  What I have found is many of the voices online want to demoralize the philosophy and paint it as godless and hedonistic.  Well, I guess in a sense hedonistic is the right term for it, but not in the traditional sense you are thinking.  Admittedly Ayn Rand's (the lady who wrote these books) concept of god was a little off "When I die, I hope to go to heaven, whatever the hell that is." Her ideals on liberty and convictions and loving life were spot on though. However, she does come off a little strong.  She is Russian.

Ayn Rand who wrote these books was from Russia, English was not her first language.  So she learned words and their exact definitions. She understood them differently than the way society did. The definition for "hedonistic": A person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.  

Sounds terrible right? Pleasure and self-gratification? yuck those are terribly selfish words.  Ok. But what if instead of thinking of our self as our body what if we thought of our self as our mind.  Suddenly self-gratifying means something completely different.  You see, instead of pleasure being temporary and carnal it all of a sudden becomes lasting and meaningful. A person known as selfish in the traditional sense would not be capable of loving.  However, in the objectivist sense a selfish person would share their love because the act of which provides joy and pleasure for them. It is actually a fact, being good to others makes one happy.  It is actually in your selfish interest to be good to others.  Many people cannot wrap their head around this concept. 

These Quorians write destructive comments about the aforementioned books. It seems their purpose is to dismantle the book and to eradicate it entirely. This frustrates me.  So I share my thoughts and opinions with these people on quora. Because I tell them they are wrong,  they don't like me.  Anyway. Sometimes I feel like I come off too strong.  Sorry.       

Where Will I Be In Five Years? (Controlling my own Country)

Ok I know it is an ambitious goal, but I really think I would be the best man to rule a country.  Well, it wouldn't be just me alone.  I would have people with similar moral convictions (none) help me run the country.  I am kidding, I have moral convictions. It would be a great and prosperous country founded on Austrian Economics.  

The place we erect ( yes, I expect your help with this) will look like Dubai, but without the turbans.  Also I think we are going to have to be stationed in Alaska, which means we get the aurora borealis.  Think of that, skyscrapers that tear into a sky that is painted by the celestial master himself. It will be wicked awesome.

Here is the plan.   

Year 1

Here is the first step, and maybe the hardest.  We will make a website that generates a lot of income, like something bigger than facebook or google, or at least as big as cupid.com.  Many of you are probably aware that since I joined examiner 3 months ago I have made almost 100 additional dollars. So once we launch the site we will be able to take the revenue from that and put it into my celebrity career.  Which brings me to step two.

Year 2

Create an international best selling album that the whole world enjoys. Have the lyrics base around the philosophies of liberty and of a unlimited potential given to all people by a higher being, I am talking about god, but I don't want the lyrics to be so direct.  You know how so many people have that strange aversion to any thing that deals with religion.  So it will be uplifting and spiritually awakening but under the guise of indie-pop music.  This will lay the founding philosophy for the Constitution of the new country.

Year 3

Maybe we could do something like this.

With the huge success from the music career and the website I will be able to use the money and influence to get into acting.  This will be the fastest way to promote knowledge about the plans.  This will also help us to connect with  influential people that may be able to support the cause.  This will be mostly a political move, if you know what I mean.

Year 4

Step four, actually go into politics.  This is when I will become senator of Alaska.  I will need a lot of baking --excuse me, backing*-- here, because we are going to need to change the laws and regulations about drilling for oil.  Don't worry, it doesn't kill animals. The heat from the pipelines actually creates havens for animals, in short it actually benefits the Eco system.

Year 5

Imagine a huge city under that. Beautiful.

Use the huge amounts of money made from oil and internet industry mixed with the influence developed through the celebrity political career, and buy Alaska from America.   We would easily be able to maintain the economy with the oil rigs and with the advanced computing factories we would erect.  We would need about a trillion dollars I think though, so that we could do this.  In five years time the national debt is going to be very high, according to wolframalpha  it will be 15 trillion dollars. We will have to at least be able to pay 1 of that 15. 

Don't worry about pollution and junk, we can use natural geysers for energy during the dark season, and we could use solar energy during the light season, we will just sell the oil to all the other countries. So what do you say? Are you in or are you totally in!?





 

Political issues will now be settled with memes

Politics is confusing and boring. That is why most people hate it and avoid it at all costs. Luckily we live in the enlightened edge of digital communication where we can express every thing we want with simple pictures called "memes".

Meet Obama.

Obama Has You By The Neck

Of course you have heard about health care reform.  That is all anyone cares about.  Geez it makes me angry. Ok I will sum it up for you, and then we will get to the real topic.  There will be people that will say, "Health care is the one thing that I believe should be universal. I mean who doesn't deserve the right to live?"  That is a cute notion. Don't fall for it.  You can't just give everyone health care. If you could I would be all for it.  However, there is too much economical whiplash that comes with it. Basically the government wants doctors to work for free.  I don't think the doctors want to do that.  Let's pretend I am a doctor for one second.  I might say something like.  "Welp, healthcare aint gonna feed my family."  You see what I am saying. There is no medication for starvation! Do you understand.