Polluting everything they touch ...

[togor]

If you want to see the ultimate in collectivist conformity, set aside a day to watch nothing but TV commercials. The junk they're hawking takes a back seat to promotion of all the liberal "virtues," from miscegenation, to promotion of faggotry, to celebration of emigration from the Turd World. Commercials that have nothing to push but their product, no social "message," are in the minority.

In the first season of "Mad Men", set in a NYC Advertising Agency in 1960, one of the principals in the agency recommends that Don Draper get a copy of "The Fountainhead". It would a fitting title for the time on the shelf of someone who considered themself to be a member of the elite, but yes the connection to the business of commercial messaging is an ironic one. And yet today, a half century later, capitalism has embraced personal consumerism as a primary strategy. The Big 5 in data certainly try to monetize individual consumer behavior as much as possible. Anyways I'll have to pass on the offer to watch only commercials for a day.

[S.A. Boggs]

All the old-fart-grousing about gays around here reminds me of the collectivist confomity that Ayn Rand railed against in The Fountainhead. Israel wants people who will defend the country and if they're gay or not doesn't seem to be a big deal to them. Hey, for all we know, some forum member has a gay child serving today. If they're doing it honorably, then everyone can just shut up about it.

I agree. happy people are fun to be around. I like gay people as they are always in a good mood, homosexuals not so...
Sam