Two Things...

[pyat]

Sales of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have quadrupled in the first four months of the year.

The founder of 4chan has been named the Most Influential Person in the World by Time. Cause, you know, everyone outside of the English-speaking Internet knows ALL about him!

Both these things irritate me!

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Partly, perhaps, but I think most of it is the Going Galt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_galt) horsepucky in response to the tax changes in the US.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Yep - in hard economic times even more idiots come to believe that they'd be rich instead of even more impoverished if only the US embraced libertarianism. This wouldn't be nearly as disturbing (to me at least) if the US didn't have one of the two major political parties cheering these people on.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

How else can they subvert the other party than to lie, cheat, and undermine? Oh, wait, they were doing that before.