A few links for you

[sabotabby]

A few pages in, I became engrossed in Romantically Apocalyptic and was nearly late for work. It's an utterly gorgeous webcomic about people amusing themselves after the apocalypse.

When I say gorgeous, I mean it looks like this:



Completely unrelated, but also very cool: There probably doesn't need to be epic take-downs of Ayn Rand anymore, but I do admire how clear and concise The World Is Socialist is. Basically, yeah, this is why I'm a socialist, and this is why Objectivism is bunk.

Here's why she doesn't have an answer -- snow storms are socialist. They hit everyone the same. We have a collective interest in getting the streets cleared asap, so we can get to work, so the ambulances can get in to take people who have strokes and heart attacks to the hospital, etc etc. We got a tiny peek, in NYC, what an Ayn Rand paradise would be like. Because we'd still be under a couple of feet of snow, a week later. Snow doesn't care how much Reardon Metal you have or if Dagny Taggart thinks you're hot. :-)

Comments

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of webcomics, but now will make sure I look at that one!

I am very glad to have grown up in a world that does not require any discussion of Ayn Rand, whom I have only ever heard of as an evil crazed freak, and was not aware anyone worhty of being thought human could take seriously. Hooray for growing up in hippie co-operative squats and squalor. My miserable childhood has some huge benefits.

Alas the world is changing and it sounds like an awakening to the possibility of world destruction by Tory hordes might be necessary. I will need to bury my head in some of that nice snow.

What's wrong with not being able to get to work?

Ambulances should have snow ploughs on them if they live in New York.

[ironed_orchid]

Wow, that is amazing art for a webcomic.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

jesus christ, looking at that makes me never want to draw again.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

A lot of the really amazing art is photocompositing. Which is not to say it's not amazing, or art, just that the guy didn't draw it.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

The problem with An rand is the same problem that people on the other end of the spectrum, on the extreme left have.

Neither camp lives in the real world. They live in this idealized version of what they think the world SHOULD be.

[flintultrasparc.livejournal.com]

Not sure the powers that be live in the real world either. "the moderate center" (if such a thing exists) has it's own forms of war, terror and oppression.

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

Adorable! Thanks so much for the link!

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Ha, that comic is awesome. Thanks for the link.

[fluffworld.livejournal.com]

Awesome comic. Has thoroughly buggered my work from home schedule too...

[sphinctourist.livejournal.com]

That comic just made my week. Thank you.