The Election, Ayn Rand, and Strippers
With the recent election of a bunch of neo-fascists to the House of Representatives - oh, sorry - I missed those comments by Jon Stewart - I have seen various commmentators talking about America adopting the moral philosophy of Ayn Rand. (Rand Paul is not named that by accident.) I've also noticed that this seems to be an author that a lot of strippers mention - so it got me to thinking about the connection.
It's been interesting to find out how many of the strippers whose company I actually enjoy are into Ayn Rand. I suppose the reason for this is (1) it's nice to find a stripper who actually reads and doesn't just talk about how shitfaced they got last Friday night and (2) it's perhaps something of a rite of passage amongst women in that age group and line of work (I am NOT going to lower myself to calling stripping a 'profession') who are trying to set aside any feelings of altruism they might have so they can fuck you over and take all your money. So it's logical choice, eh?
And, of course, sometimes the girls who are there to fuck you over the most are kind of interesting as long as you prepared to deal with it and fuck them over as much as you can. I occassionally do this by spending some time and effort on a girl who clearly is into manipulation and then spending my money on someone else who is more innocent mentally, but not physically. God that pisses them off - and that's fun!
I see three parts to Ayn Rand's philosophy. (1) Do whatever is best for yourself and that will be best for everyone (laissez-faire capitalism and a bit of a bastardization of Adam Smith (2) People who try to get other people to be altruistic usually do that just to take advantage of them (oddly enough, that's almost aligned with Marx saying "Religion is the opiate of the masses" and (3) Be true to yourself and you will succeed. Let's look at each of these 3 items because you must be bored shitless to have stayed with me this far.
Not surprising that strippers want to do what is best for themselves. Also not surprising that some of them are trying to get over the idea of having a conscience and so they fall back on Ayn Rand as religious saint who can console them with 'Don't worry honey - it's all best for everyone.' Well, hate to inform a few of you naive and gullible bastards of this, but neither corporate leaders, nor the Republican Party, nor even - to my chagrin - the Democratic Party has your best interest as even a remote part of their agenda and the more unbalanced the power is, the more likely you are to get screwed (and not in the good way.) Likewise with strippers - the more unbalanced the power is, the more likely you are to get screwed - and not in the good way. Adam Smith was actually trying to rescue England from a spate of monopolistic price-fixing controlled by Mercantilists and was in favor of competition when there was not a vastly inequal distribution of power. So strippers like Ayn Rand and laissez-faire capitalism because it gives them a way to assuage their conscious for royally fucking you over and doing what is in their best interest. Moral: Negotiate hard. And strippers - it's in your best interest and that's the end of it - don't try to pretend some moral good comes out of it when you act like a complete cutthroat bitch.
The second part - that people who tell you to be altruistic will then take advantage of you - has some appeal to strippers because they don't want anything to get in the way of their money making. I mean, how are they going to afford the mortgage and their daily hit of heroin if they have any altruistic tendencies, eh? So - fuck altruism. And I will grant that anyone who is purely altruistic is likely to get walked on a lot - especially with all the motherfuckers out there who are following Ayn Rand.
The final part - be true to yourself - ok, now where the fuck did that come from? Ok - this is the fucking female brain at work and why Ayn Rand, in the final analysis, is just a big douche bag. A lot of strippers took the ingenious route of dropping out of high school or college or majoring in Medieval History, even if they did go to college at fucking Stanford. And they see themselves as budding artists, musicians, animal rights activists, whatever the fuck. But they are going to be true to themselves because, in the end, that is self-centered and will create incredible beauty in the world. So says fucking Ayn - geez what kind of fucking name is Ayn anyway? So that, in the mind of 20 year old girl who may have been sexually abused or might be shooting up occassionally or whatever the fuck her issue is, gives her the right to fuck you over as much as she wants - but she will try to engage in some interesting conversation. Just don't ask her the difference between Apolo Ono and the Ohno Bird (legs of 2 feet, balls of 4 feet and when it lands it says 'Ohno')
Now Ayn Rand escaped from Russia and hated Josef Stalin. And with good fucking reason - he killed about 20 million people and I believe that still stands in the Guiness Book of World Records, although Adolf gets a mention. But what was Stalin really doing? Well, seems to me like he was just applying Ayn Rand's philosophy and looking out for himself in one ruthless motherfucking fashion.
So, I guess, Ayn Rand and Stalin and strippers have a lot in common - they're pretty much interested in one thing and one thing only - them-fucking-selves. To the extent that there are rules around out there or social enforcement mechanisms to reign in the worst of this behavior, things can still work pretty well. Hey - I have actually enjoyed 90% of the lap dances I have done! But once you release all the social constraints and make everything a power struggle, well, then you get Stalinist Russia or the Capitalist excesses of the last 10 years in the United States.
So if you wanna vote for Sarah Palin or some other dumb ass stripper for President in 2012, feel free - but at least you know what the hell you're getting yourself into now. It'll be like the most ruthless stripper you know running the country - good luck with that.
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last comment"Fountainhead" starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, screenplay by Ayn Rand from her novel of the same name.
Anyone have the Cliff Notes on this harangue? Oh, never mind.
When a stripper asks you for your name; tell her it is John Galt. I went through my Ayn Rand phase in my late teens. Then I grew up and became an adult. Ayn Rand is for kids. Did you know that Alan Greenspan was an adoring acolyte of Rand's in the 40s and 50s? The current US economic mess caused by the collapse in residential real estate prices is directly attributable to Greenspan's goofy interest rate policies while he was at the Fed. And where did he get his failed ideas from? Rand = Republican IDIOCY.
Why should the author sacrifice his precious time creating new paragraphs just so a reader could find this rant more interesting (not), more readable (maybe) or longer on the page?
I am a fan of Ayn Rand and make no apologies for acting in my own best interest.
As for the rant that opened this thread, I agree with the other commenter who suggested that it would benefit from adequate paragraph breaks.
Persons who find Ayn Rand's book THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS offensive may find the much earlier work THE ART OF SELFISHNESS by David Seabury much more palatable. The author argues in favor of self-interest and against self-sacrifice from a Christian perspective. Read reviews at
www.amazon.com
and check your local library for copies.
I am a fan of Ayn Rand and make no apologies for acting in my own best interest.
As for the rant that opened this thread, I agree with the other commenter who suggested that it would benefit from adequate paragraph breaks.
Persons who find Ayn Rand's book THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS offensive may find the much earlier work THE ART OF SELFISHNESS by David Seabury much more palatable. The author argues in favor of self-interest and against self-sacrifice from a Christian perspective. Read reviews at
www.amazon.com
and check your local library for copies.
Sorry about the double posting. Connection problems. I thought there was a way to delete posts but apparently not.
That has to be one of the most complete demonstrations of the fundamental failure to understand what Rand believed and proposed that I've ever witnessed.
I guess you need to be reminded that Jim Crowe, Blue laws and prohibition have been brought to you by the democrats. The true conservative philosophy is if you are an Adult you have the right to dance naked if you want as long as you do not hurt anyone else. The socialist elite that want you to only do want they want when they want and pay them for the priviledge of them telling you want to do. Tipper Gore as morality police for TV then it turns out her "happy marriage" to Algore was a gettin some on the side and she is a frigid bitch (like you can't tell that by looking at it). The "liberal" plan now uses morality freedom to distract you while they take away all you other freedoms them they unlease the morality police to regulate thought. Politcal correct think states the men are not allowed to have sexual thought about women. If you do and the authorities find out they will kick you out of school or have you fired from your job for her-ass-ment.
"The whole fucking thing was supposed to be funny."
What's so funny about misrepresentation?
paul, the humor really didn't come through in your article.
I am guessing you just wanted a free month of VIP.
Thank you Sinclair - good guess
It's Sunday morning and I'm killing time before the football game, so I read this, but not out of boredom. Now, what toi say.
I like Libertarians. Nothing wrong with personal liberty, helping yourself and providing some help to others in the process--all by means of individual initiative. Interesting analogy to strippers, by the way.
You're way too conspiratorial. I don't think the parties are out to screw us by design. They are out to promote their agendas. They screws us accidentally:
**Dems cater to their various special interest constituencies that make up their coalition.--need something, we'll give it to you as a "right" (translation, the public pays for it). That makes for a better society in their view. More engineered fairness is better and govt gives it to you.
**Republicans cater less to interests than to ideals.
An arguments could be made that GOP interest constitute business and more wealthy people. BUT examining ideals reveals that everyone aspires to acquire more wealth, Republicans don't want to limit that for anybodys' ability to do that. Jobs come from richer people or poorer people who take a risk and borrow molney to fund that risk. These people create jobs for the rest of us. Government is only needed to provide some regulation to keep things honest. Less govt is better. We'll better on our own.
Both have created and maintained safety nets for the incompetents and truly hardup.
I'm not suspicious of this, I just subscribe to the one I think works best for me, that is the one that takes less from me.
To sum up:
Too much anger.
Too conspsiratorial.
Maybe a little anger management this week would help you.
MisterGuy said: I live in my mom's basement and I have no friends.
True enough.
Tits are good.
So is ass.
That makes me equal opportunity.
Sir: With reference to your original post, you have managed to take three of my favorite topics (politics, literature, and strippers) and weave them into a virtually unreadable paragraph. The stupidity of your ideas is exceeded only by the tedium of your writing style.
Still sorry about the paragraphs - geez - I wrote it with paragraphs. And yah - it's a tad too angry - must've had a bad watching election results or Dancing With the Stars. Ok - that was funny - come on, guys. Geez. So gk - you're on target and inno123 was actually the funniest comment - I like the ten-ten story.
way too heavy for a strip club forum, man
let's talk about women that do things for money, ok?