We don't value what is free
That is just horseshit. Another favorite that I get from idiots is, "You get what you paid for." There are so many brainwashed dumb asses out who have bought into the marketing speaks. Is everything free bad? Do people truly don't value what is free?!
We don't have to look far away or to imagine something hypothetical. The two most influential persons in our lives, they gave us advice for free, they might even have fed us, and raised us to be who we are today. For most of us, these two individuals might have even biologically conceived us and gave us life. Guess what, they did all that for free. Are they useless? Do we NOT value their advice?!
There are always exceptions. But in a world that is flooded with marketing bullshit and everyone seems to be brainwashed to believe that free is bad and we don't value "stuff" unless we have paid for them. I'm sure I'm not the first, but I'll have to call bullshit on it.
Although I don't have experience with prostitutes/escorts, but from what I gathered, the best sex that people can have is still free... not necessarily with your typical Spitzer girl. So, stop drinking the Kool-Aid, and wake the fuck up!
Seriously, next time I hear someone promulgate that bullshit, I will send that dumbass to meet Ayn Rand. Another parasite on society that I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole, even when she was alive. That woman has done more harm to this world than Microsoft. She created a generation of secret admirers who are destroying our countries today. Before anyone label me a pinko-communist, seriously examine the miserable existence of Ayn Rand and tell me we can learn from her. Furthermore, I have yet to meet a decent human being who admires her. If you have or think you are a decent human being who also admires her, step up and prove me wrong...
2 comments:
I think there's a lot of good locked away in the self-help movement.
My problem with it though is that it proposes individual solutions to problems whcih really need societal solutions (I'm pretty sure I'm paraphrasing someone elses' words here but they rang so true to me and sum up the 'feeling' I'd always had about self-help but had never been able to nail down exactly).
We are human beings, we live in a society with OTHER human beings and yes, we have an ego. I believe it's a totally natural thing. I love being human, warts and all. Why do all these philosophies try and pretend they're above simply just being people?
How the fuck does Eckhart Tolle's solution help a starving kid in Africa, or a refugee? Or for that matter, someone doing it financially tough and just trying to get by? How does it help them in the 'now'. how does it help them keep food on their table?
Why do people in self-help price their 'products' out of the reach of the very people who need their help the most? The people who probably don't even know what a Borders bookstore is, or who certainly couldn't afford several thousand dollars to attend a seminar.
There's some good ideas there, but way too much individualism. I'm sorry but Eckhart Tolle and others like him only get a small amount of my respect (and only because I do somewhat agree with SOME PARTS of their sweeping generalizations). The rest of it goes to those who deserve it the most - missionaries, doctors, aid workers. You know, the ones who actually GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY and HELP _OTHERS_ in third world countries and warzones, not from the comfort of an air-conditioned seminar room with 'followers' worshipping them.
As for Ayn Rand, I'd only briefly heard of her before reading your post. But after reading the Wikipedia article, I get your point :) Let's all just go off and pretend that nobody else exists and we can all 'help ourselves', since oh yeah the only purpose of a society is to maintain the rights of the individual LOLOLOLOL give me a fucking break.
Thanks, I think that rant's been coming for a while :)
I hear that Ayn Rand doesn't have much of a good footing in philosophy as well, though she does have a pretty "marketable" message in her works. It's weird too, I remember there being a scholarship in my high school on Ayn Rand, where you had to read "The Fountainhead" and write an essay on it and send it to the Ayn Rand Foundation.
In any case, I totally agree, her views aren't even a serious description of the world and a rational account to lead to her points, but rather to smash intellectualism and to get a cult following started. It seems like it's worked.
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