Wolf DeVoon

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  1. Wolf DeVoon
    Seriously doubt it. Talent is rare.
  2. Wolf DeVoon
    Sure. Consent matters and competence matters. In Rand's canon, Jim Taggart and innocent Cheryl were an obscenity, doomed to fail quickly and badly. Dagny surrendered irresistibly to Francisco as a teenager because he was wonderful. Hank was her spiritual equal, Galt the ideal man she hoped that she would someday meet and test. A far simpler story in The Fountainhead, of course. Dominique was indifferent to men until Roark humiliated her (sent someone else to set the marble) and conquered her, made her fear what it would cost if he was defeated by history epitomized in the person of sexually odd Toohey, a "lifelong bachelor." Sure enough, Toohey's ilk ultimately won (in the real world). The MeToo assault on alpha males is underway big time, no sex for Dominique now.
  3. Wolf DeVoon
    Oops. Maybe I'm neither good nor great. My characters blunder steadfastly, make mistakes. Minor characters take a dim view of heroism, think it too risky. None of it has much to do with me, the novelist. The whole point of writing fiction is to depict someone head and shoulders better than I am, lifestyles of the rich and famous, at a minimum. Others do dark and stormy nights, historical tales, horror, and science fantasy (like Galt's generator). If there's a universal in The Fountainhead, I never saw it. No man like Roark in the universe as I understand it.
  4. Wolf DeVoon
    My ideal. Enjoyed your post very much, Michael, read every word, admired its clarity.
  5. Wolf DeVoon
    For the record, I sailed with pirates, blew up projects, carried a gun, and endeavored to articulate a legal system for the Gulch. WRT sex, some of us apparently have difficulty grasping what's plain as day throughout Miss Rand's entire body of work. Hot water seeks its own level, as I've tried to make clear in my own fiction.
  6. Wolf DeVoon
    I question the intelligence of people who read Psychology Today.
  7. Wolf DeVoon
    Musk is a colossal fraud, milking taxpayers to build electric cars that burn fossil fuel, living hand to mouth on NASA contracts, after a total fail at PayPal.
  8. Wolf DeVoon
    (shakes head in awe, can't tell if it's blasphemy or Newspeak)
  9. Wolf DeVoon
    Rarely seen anything so off the wall.
  10. Wolf DeVoon
    You should write more, or I should read your blog more often. I admire your sharp focus, sharpshooter.
  11. Wolf DeVoon
    Hmm. With microsurgery?
  12. Wolf DeVoon
    Good one. Yeah, we can do without engineering or biology.
  13. Wolf DeVoon
    Whoa, not my forecast. Absolutely every indicator of a market crash in 2018. As for what's happening with the U.S. economy, take a look: Trade balance for the past twelve months ($ billion) China: +414 Germany: +270 Russia: +111 Brazil: +66 Netherlands: +66 Italy: +52 Saudi Arabia: +43 Indonesia: +13 Canada: -13 Spain: -26 Pakistan: -36 France: -68 Turkey: -73 India: -140 UK: -171 US: -798
  14. Wolf DeVoon
    That's swell, Bob. Glad you chose nice parents, think you did something grand by being born.
  15. Wolf DeVoon
    It does happen, you know. You can argue in favor of licensed professions including hazmat transport, excavation, tunnel engineers, mining, doctors, lawyers, and Indian chiefs, or whatever, but government itself is the greatest polluter, creates truly horrible hazards on the ground and in the air, compared to private actors. The ultimate question is whether government should have a monopoly on strategic weapons. I've argued in favor of Galt withholding strategic technology from idiot government.
  16. Wolf DeVoon
    I have a solution for that, works every time. You've chosen to ignore content by william.scherk.
  17. Wolf DeVoon
    Stick to math and science, where you know the subject. Thanks.
  18. Wolf DeVoon
    Sorry, I haven't been paying attention. What Bob is talking about is "positive law," legislation and edicts by the Executive Branch -- the least cogent, least reasonable aspect of democracy, a great nose-counting parade, where a plurality wins and everyone else loses. That has nothing to do with common law or equity. Common law is not regulatory. It is a neutral venue to hear cases and controversies. Equity jurisdiction seeks to provide a remedy other than money damages in the interests of justice.
  19. Wolf DeVoon
    Sigh. Take your middle class happytalk meme and shove it. Without the valiant dead of many conflicts, including today's vilified LEOs in the line of fire, you'd have nothing. John Galt gave himself up to his enemies to save Dagny -- it was that or suicide, to defend her and the Gulch -- and every one of the men who came to rescue Galt were prepared to fight and die, if need be, for a value that transcended special snowflake happiness or prosperity. Howard Roark gambled and lost repeatedly. Just go away, Regi. Quit embarrassing yourself and boring the grown ups.
  20. Wolf DeVoon
    Totally wrong as usual -- and pedantic, predictable, pedestrian.
  21. Wolf DeVoon
    Thank you, Michael.
  22. Wolf DeVoon
    r-i-i-i-ight, that's the John Galt Plan, huh?
  23. Wolf DeVoon
    He has a subconscious urge to sling mud, a superior sort of being.
  24. Wolf DeVoon
    Yep. I had a single encounter with Branden in 1980 or 81. We discussed filming one of his Intensives. Charismatic, happy guy.
  25. Wolf DeVoon
    Drop dead. We don't need a lecture on how to suck eggs.