There's a lot to be said about this. One thing is that it's Randian. Yes, I know, Ayn Rand was something of a lunatic. But there was a nugget of truth in "Atlas Shrugged," wasn't there?
Another writer who crossed my mind as I read this was Robert B. Heinlein and specifically his novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (1950). AOC would have…
There's a lot to be said about this. One thing is that it's Randian. Yes, I know, Ayn Rand was something of a lunatic. But there was a nugget of truth in "Atlas Shrugged," wasn't there?
Another writer who crossed my mind as I read this was Robert B. Heinlein and specifically his novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (1950). AOC would have hated and reviled D.D. Harriman.
Perhaps the most destructive aspect of postmodern progressivism is its attempted substitution of corporate identity for the individual personality. Recondite categories of race and "gender" are held to be our defining characteristics, while the concept of common human values is held to be oppressive. Thus a black person who shows up for work on time is "acting white," i.e. bending the knee to white supremacy. Is it any wonder that the underachiever, the mediocrity, the slacker, the parasite, constitute po-mo progressivism's beau ideal? The ambition "to boldly go where no man has gone before" holds no appeal for the party of free daycare, student loan forgiveness and elective double mastectomies for gender-confused teenaged girls.
There's a lot to be said about this. One thing is that it's Randian. Yes, I know, Ayn Rand was something of a lunatic. But there was a nugget of truth in "Atlas Shrugged," wasn't there?
Another writer who crossed my mind as I read this was Robert B. Heinlein and specifically his novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (1950). AOC would have hated and reviled D.D. Harriman.
Perhaps the most destructive aspect of postmodern progressivism is its attempted substitution of corporate identity for the individual personality. Recondite categories of race and "gender" are held to be our defining characteristics, while the concept of common human values is held to be oppressive. Thus a black person who shows up for work on time is "acting white," i.e. bending the knee to white supremacy. Is it any wonder that the underachiever, the mediocrity, the slacker, the parasite, constitute po-mo progressivism's beau ideal? The ambition "to boldly go where no man has gone before" holds no appeal for the party of free daycare, student loan forgiveness and elective double mastectomies for gender-confused teenaged girls.