Roger Bissell Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Announcing the imminent publication of a great new self-help book for Objectivists who want to know how to minimize the productive output of their rational faculties: For the New Ineffectual. A compilation of penetrating essays by Dizzy Vertigo, Dyin' O'Shame, Joseph Moron, Michael Mozzarella, Jimmy Intrepid, and others, this is a must-have for those who are not satisfied with idly defaulting on the challenge of productive, rational effort, but instead want pointers on how to actively tear down the productive thinkers in our midst. A partial listing of contents of For the New Ineffectual includes:1. The Judgmentalist Ethics: a New Theory of Egocentricity2. Email Confidentiality is for Suckers: Thumbing Your Nose at the Copyright Laws When It's for a Good Cause3. How to Transform Your Anger at Being Privately Insulted into Public Character Defamation of Your Enemies4. Jumping to Conclusions as an Act of Justice5. Guidelines for the Courageous Manipulation and Intimidation of Scholars6. Distorting Timelines and Motivations in the Service of a Higher Truth7. Alcohol, Rage, and the Passionate Sense of Life: the Heroic Harnessing of Hostility8. Two-Wrongs-Make-a-Right as a Corollary of the Law of ContradictionThis book has already been endorsed by Associated Scholars Seeking to Halt Objectivism's Looming Encroachment in Society (ASSHOLES). (Rumor has it that the principal authors are founding members of this organization.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Branden Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Roger, you've outdone yourself! But you forgot one especially daring essay which will put to rest, once and for all, the vicious accusation that the authors of the book are cultists: The Virtue of Hatred: The Virtue Even Ayn Rand NeglectedAnd then, of course, there's the tried and true: You Don't Love Me! -- Or: Your Failure to Meet the Minimum Standards of ObjectivityAnd how could you forget the essay particularly dear to the hearts of the authors: How To Breach America's Laws Against Libel in a Manner That Only the Sane Will NoticeTsk, tsk. You must try not to be so forgetful.Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Roger,Let me check in real quick to gush. I'm chomping at the bit to join in but I'm laughing too hard. Dayaamm, you're talented!You're even bringing out a very funny comical vein in Barbara.I shall return...Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNA Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Roger,>Associated Scholars Seeking to Halt Objectivism's Looming Encroachment in Society (ASSHOLES). I just can't stop laughing, oh, that's just wonderful. Your whole post is just utterly hilarious. Way to go, Roger. I really enjoyed that one !!Angie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C. Jordan Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 This one is still funnier than slied bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanz Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 ROTFLOL!"Dyin O'Shame" still kills me every time I think of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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