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Football - WTF? Ayn Rand is destroying the game?

I've seen Rand bashers and Rand bashers, but this one is just too weird for mere words to describe. You have to read it to believe someone is boneheaded enough to preach that Ayn Rand is prompting the demise of the pigskin.

Look below at this splendiferous stash of raw rare reason. This perspicacious professor of the profound. This sleuth of the heinous hidden agenda.

(All right, all right. I stink at being Howard Cosell... :smile: )

Enjoy.

You can't make this stuff up...

How Ayn Rand is wrecking football

Paul Ryan's beloved Packers were robbed last night -- because the owners are putting the "moochers" in their place

by Paul F. Campos

September 25, 2012

Salon

From the article:

If you want to know whom to blame for the surreal officiating fiasco that robbed Paul Ryan’s favorite football team of a win last night, the answer is Paul Ryan’s favorite political thinker. As improbable as it sounds, Ayn Rand’s lunatic brand of Marxism turned on its head is to a significant extent responsible for Lingerie Football League castoffs refereeing America’s most popular and profitable sport (with predictably catastrophic consequences).

. . .

Ungrateful “moochers” like NFL referees – mere laborers who, unlike the captains of industry who deign to pay their wages, have failed to climb to the top of our ruthlessly meritocratic social pyramid — need to be shown their place. Although locking the refs out and replacing them with utterly incompetent substitutes is a nonsensical decision from an economic perspective, there’s a higher principle to be vindicated here, which is that the Heroic Businessman is responsible for everything good about America, and the lesser orders had better not forget it.

That, at the deepest ideological and psychological level, is why the NFL owners are insisting on doing their best to wreck the sport, in much the same way that their political lapdogs, like the Rand-worshiping Ryan, are dedicated to wrecking the nation.

All you can do is laugh. Not mocking laugh, either. This shit is seriously funny.

But on the mocking side, when the Progressives have to go to this outlandish length, it's an indication that Paul Ryan is scaring the holy bejeezus out of them.

We certainly are getting a rash of nutcases in the news recently. And their common theme is political, usually from the Progressive side.

But I have to give it to this Campos guy. If you're gonna be a nutcase, you might as well play full on and go whole hog in.

After all, who wants to be a second string nutcase?

:smile:

Michael

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That is one of the crazier distortions of Rand I have read.

It is also false on almost every level to say that Ryan is a Rand-worshipper. He agrees on a few of Rand's political points, but nothing really essential.

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Football - WTF? Ayn Rand is destroying the game?

I've seen Rand bashers and Rand bashers, but this one is just too weird for mere words to describe. You have to read it to believe someone is boneheaded enough to preach that Ayn Rand is prompting the demise of the pigskin.

Look below at this splendiferous stash of raw rare reason. This perspicacious professor of the profound. This sleuth of the heinous hidden agenda.

(All right, all right. I stink at being Howard Cosell... :smile: )

Enjoy.

You can't make this stuff up...

How Ayn Rand is wrecking football

Paul Ryan's beloved Packers were robbed last night -- because the owners are putting the "moochers" in their place

by Paul F. Campos

September 25, 2012

Salon

From the article:

If you want to know whom to blame for the surreal officiating fiasco that robbed Paul Ryan’s favorite football team of a win last night, the answer is Paul Ryan’s favorite political thinker. As improbable as it sounds, Ayn Rand’s lunatic brand of Marxism turned on its head is to a significant extent responsible for Lingerie Football League castoffs refereeing America’s most popular and profitable sport (with predictably catastrophic consequences).

. . .

Ungrateful “moochers” like NFL referees – mere laborers who, unlike the captains of industry who deign to pay their wages, have failed to climb to the top of our ruthlessly meritocratic social pyramid — need to be shown their place. Although locking the refs out and replacing them with utterly incompetent substitutes is a nonsensical decision from an economic perspective, there’s a higher principle to be vindicated here, which is that the Heroic Businessman is responsible for everything good about America, and the lesser orders had better not forget it.

That, at the deepest ideological and psychological level, is why the NFL owners are insisting on doing their best to wreck the sport, in much the same way that their political lapdogs, like the Rand-worshiping Ryan, are dedicated to wrecking the nation.

All you can do is laugh. Not mocking laugh, either. This shit is seriously funny.

But on the mocking side, when the Progressives have to go to this outlandish length, it's an indication that Paul Ryan is scaring the holy bejeezus out of them.

We certainly are getting a rash of nutcases in the news recently. And their common theme is political, usually from the Progressive side.

But I have to give it to this Campos guy. If you're gonna be a nutcase, you might as well play full on and go whole hog in.

After all, who wants to be a second string nutcase?

:smile:

Michael

Good publicity for Ayn Rand.

--Brant

believe it or not

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I am not a football fan. I know the NFL teams from 1958, after that I lost track. I think the sport is ridiculous and as much as I disliked George Carlin's leftwing polemics, I treasure his comparison of baseball with football. Moreover, I confess to knowing nothing about split-T and wing or even how to tell a linebacker from a fullback. That said... two weekends ago, I guarded a building with eight huge TV screens and it was hilarious and frustrating watching the referees.

What it proves about Ayn Rand and capitalism is that business is a two-way street: workers have skills. Not all workers have all the value they imagine, but skill counts. In his autobiography, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors, John Delorean said that as a toolmaker his father and his father's craft workers could walk off any job and find another, so they were treated with respect.

So, too, with the referees. If you ever umped any game you know. Maybe at some level, the football referees will overbid their hands, but for now, they seem to be worth their weight in gold.

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When I think of present day America, the phrase that always comes to mind is "ruthlessly meritocratic social pyramid."

Every single day, I feel like I am in the middle of a Sinclair Lewis novel, when I'm not in a John Steinbeck novel, and when I'm not in the middle of a Charles Dickens novel.

No free health care if I show up at an emergency room, no food stamps, no endless unemployment compensation funded by my child's future taxes/inheritances, no "Social Security" of any kind for myriad disabilities and/or other infirmities of old age, no civic charities, no soup kitchens, no United Way, no church charities, no state-mandated minimum wage, minimum benefits, or minimum family leave or medical leave, and no other safety net features of any kind. America has none of these things, and the people making six figure incomes do not pay at least a third of that income into the government to pay for any such things.

Yup, we Americans sure live in the world Ayn Rand made, a world that is first and foremost a "ruthlessly meritocratic social pyramid."

The Ivy League puke who wrote this drivel needs to be slapped.

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Don't read my related post on Hockey thread then, I bruise easily.

You are a socialist and a Canadian, Daunce. For these reasons, espcially the latter, and because--unlike Mr. Campos-- you are not inclined to caricatures of those you disagree with, you deserve a pass.

Americans alive today, however, having drawn an inside straight in the poker game of life, deserve no such pass. Speaking of betting, I would be willing to bet, sight and Google unseen, that our friend Mr. Paul Campos has never met a payroll in his life, that his parents and/or the government paid for his college, and that while growing up, his "self esteem" was the issue of paramount importance in his world. I would be willing to double down and bet that in the last 12 months he hasn't performed a lick of volunteer service to ameliorate the ruthlessness about which he is so fired up. This is not a caricature--it describes most well educated American liberals under the age of 35 that people of my generation have had to coexist with for the past decade or two. They talk a good game, but lead--in every significanty way--the types of "selfish" lives they decry in others, and spend more money on hairdos than they do for charity.

I could be wrong about this bum in particular, but the odds are highly in my favor on these proposed bets.

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Don't read my related post on Hockey thread then, I bruise easily.

You are a socialist and a Canadian, Daunce. For these reasons, espcially the latter, and because--unlike Mr. Campos-- you are not inclined to caricatures of those you disagree with, you deserve a pass.

Americans alive today, however, having drawn an inside straight in the poker game of life, deserve no such pass. Speaking of betting, I would be willing to bet, sight and Google unseen, that our friend Mr. Paul Campos has never met a payroll in his life, that his parents and/or the government paid for his college, and that while growing up, his "self esteem" was the issue of paramount importance in his world. I would be willing to double down and bet that in the last 12 months he hasn't performed a lick of volunteer service to ameliorate the ruthlessness about which he is so fired up. This is not a caricature--it describes most well educated American liberals under the age of 35 that people of my generation have had to coexist with for the past decade or two. They talk a good game, but lead--in every significanty way--the types of "selfish" lives they decry in others, and spend more money on hairdos than they do for charity.

I could be wrong about this bum in particular, but the odds are highly in my favor on these proposed bets.

Thanks, I will take your pass and apply for a voucher because I spend no money on hairdos. This is not from principle or because I have no hair, but I just can't stand sitting around in salons looking at myself in a mirror .

I will also take your word on the American liberals you know. I like to think ours are somewhat different. I am willing to believe that money meets mouth more often in conservatives, even. I just don't always like where the ultra conservative money goes,

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PDS.

I googled Campos, and so far I haven't found anything that would make you lose your bet about him. But are the University of Michigan and the University of Boulder in the Ivy League?

Figures. A fellow Michigan grad. Man, do I have him pegged.

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Good publicity for Ayn Rand.

--Brant

believe it or not

I agree Brant. This author just wants to sell his articles and books and be topical. After 9/11 he went on Bill OReilly and called for the firing of a fellow (liberal)professor for an essay on the causes of the attack - just like the firing of Bill Maher for the "coward" thing. He wrote a book about how obesity is not all that bad when fatness was even more of an obsession than it is now. Rand is topical now so he is latching on...giving her more visibility.

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Don't read my related post on Hockey thread then, I bruise easily.

You are a socialist and a Canadian, Daunce. For these reasons, espcially the latter, and because--unlike Mr. Campos-- you are not inclined to caricatures of those you disagree with, you deserve a pass.

Americans alive today, however, having drawn an inside straight in the poker game of life, deserve no such pass. Speaking of betting, I would be willing to bet, sight and Google unseen, that our friend Mr. Paul Campos has never met a payroll in his life, that his parents and/or the government paid for his college, and that while growing up, his "self esteem" was the issue of paramount importance in his world. I would be willing to double down and bet that in the last 12 months he hasn't performed a lick of volunteer service to ameliorate the ruthlessness about which he is so fired up. This is not a caricature--it describes most well educated American liberals under the age of 35 that people of my generation have had to coexist with for the past decade or two. They talk a good game, but lead--in every significanty way--the types of "selfish" lives they decry in others, and spend more money on hairdos than they do for charity.

I could be wrong about this bum in particular, but the odds are highly in my favor on these proposed bets.

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Non - Campos - mentis:

Bio:

Paul Campos left a position with a Chicago law firm to begin his teaching career at Colorado Law School in 1990. As a scholar, he has focused on constitutional law and legal theory.

His graduate studies in English literature, which culminated in a thesis on Shakespeare's King Lear, provided him with rigorous training in literary theory that has been helpful in his current work in constitutional interpretation.

He has written several well-regarded law review articles in this area, including "Against Constitutional Theory," published in the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and "Advocacy in Scholarship," published in the California Law Review. Both of these articles have been noted as major critiques of the political and normative orientation of current constitutional theory.

Professor Campos' regular column for the Rocky Mountain News (distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service), written for a general audience on political, social, and legal issues, has developed a considerable following. A packed house, drawn by his provocative take on a wide range of topics, attended his presentation of the 27th Annual Austin W. Scott, Jr. Lecture entitled "The Obesity Myth & The Lewinsky Scandal," which was based on his latest book project. His second book, Jurismania: The Madness of American Law, critiques the American legal system. Professor Campos also served as the first director of CU law school's Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. http://lawweb.colora...ofile.jsp?id=10

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Paul_Campos

Campos's legal scholarship has focused largely on questions of legal interpretation, and especially on the ways in which law can become a kind of substitute pseudo-religion in a secularized culture. In 2003, the Colorado Daily named him "Best University of Colorado Professor" in its annual "Best of Boulder" edition.

Here is the fat boy's web site...

http://abovethelaw.com/tag/paul-f-campos/

This jerk should be pegged! And I do so mean that in the nastiest sexual sense.

However, he does teach a course on:

Fall 2012 Theory of Punishment

LAWS 8548-001

I am sending him an e-mail to be a consulting guest lecturer...or, lecherer...as long as he provides the models for the illustrations and pays all expenses plus a nice stipend, I am perfectly willing to help him with his class.

Adam

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If you do not know you are not going to score much!

All I have to do is score when I have the ball ...so to speak...

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After 9/11 he went on Bill OReilly and called for the firing of a fellow (liberal) professor for an essay on the causes of the attack...

Carol,

Are you referring to Ward Churchill?

Liberal?

Churchill is hard Left, by American standards. Maybe Noam Chomsky is farther Left. Cornel West, a self-styled Marxist, isn't.

More to the point, Churchill is a serial scamster—having falsely claimed American Indian ancestry to burnish his victim-class credentials, ripped off other people's art, and plagiarized other people's writing.

I think Churchill eminently deserved to be fired—but only after the administrators who hired him, granted him promotion and tenure, and allowed him to become a Department Chair were all fired.

Robert Campbell

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After 9/11 he went on Bill OReilly and called for the firing of a fellow (liberal) professor for an essay on the causes of the attack...

Carol,

Are you referring to Ward Churchill?

Liberal?

Churchill is hard Left, by American standards. Maybe Noam Chomsky is farther Left. Cornel West, a self-styled Marxist, isn't.

More to the point, Churchill is a serial scamster—having falsely claimed American Indian ancestry to burnish his victim-class credentials, ripped off other people's art, and plagiarized other people's writing.

I think Churchill eminently deserved to be fired—but only after the administrators who hired him, granted him promotion and tenure, and allowed him to become a Department Chair were all fired.

Robert Campbell

But should he have been fired for anti-government or "anti-American" speech? For that matter, should Communist screenwriters etc. have been fired in the McCarthy era? Communism wasn't even illegal.

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But should he have been fired for anti-government or "anti-American" speech? For that matter, should Communist screenwriters etc. have been fired in the McCarthy era? Communism wasn't even illegal.

Carol,

On the McCarthy era issue, I agree with MSK.

On Ward Churchill, I do not believe he should have been fired by the University of Colorado for his remarks about "little Eichmanns" in the Twin Towers.

I do believe he deserved to be fired by the University of Colorado for plagiarism and for gaming the Affirmative Action system.

But only after the administrators who hired him, promoted and tenured him, and tried to hide his plagiarism and other fraudulent activities were fired.

Robert Campbell

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Michael, I did not say fired by the government, I said fired by the university for speaking against the government, or anti-Americanly. This is what Campos was saying should happen.

I assume you mean that universities are not part of the free market system.

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