Just Say ‘Yes’ to Prosperity

Subject: Just Say ‘Yes’ to Prosperity Tue Dec 19, 2017 5:32 pm

The need for benign neglect

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The more squared-away among us have been doing their Christmas shopping for a while. People like me are getting started.

It’s fashionable to dislike shopping. Men of course aren’t supposed to enjoy shopping, because shopping is a stereotypically female thing, and we men are weirdly delicate in the face of such threats. But many women say they dislike shopping, too: It’s a hassle, it’s stressful, and taking pleasure in the mere exercise of consumption strikes many as suggestive of shallowness. It’s a fine argument, but I don’t buy it.

Ayn Rand loved architects, or at least the idea of an architect. Sit-com writers did, too. (Ever notice that about every third character on a sit-com is an architect?) That’s because architects and the buildings they put up (if only Rand had known the unglamorous daily reality of a modern architect!) are a kind of shorthand for human ingenuity and ambition. When the alien archeologists land on Earth in some future age, they’ll see the Chrysler Building and Grand Central Terminal and they’ll know that there was once a real civilization here on Earth. (“And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls.”) They’ll wonder at some of our strange and barbaric practices, but they’ll know we had something going on.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454718/walmart-prosperity-freedom

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