Posted on 02/11/2022 12:47:27 PM PST by Bratch
Anyone familiar with my scribbling knows that I separate modern society into two categories: World Turners and The Useless.
Me? I’m no World Turner. I’m one of The Useless. What I mean is this: If everyone who does what I do for a living stopped doing it today, the world would keep right on turning. Society would roll along just fine without me and mine — maybe better. Sure, a few people might miss my musings, but only for a little while. And the same is true for anyone who makes a living spewing their half-assed opinions (especially Jonah Goldberg).
In fact, you could wipe society’s table clear of every writer, artist, actor, musician, professor, dancer, reporter, tastemaker, producer, influencer, teacher, lobbyist, politician, everyone on TV, everyone who doesn’t get their hands dirty, and our world would keep turning just fine. Would we miss things like the newest Marvel movie? Sure. Those things are the spice of a life as bountiful as ours. But that doesn’t change the fact that our world would keep right on turning.
Now try to live without the World Turners, those sneered at by America’s left-wing elite, by the CNNs and "Morning Joes" and NPR — the working class. Try to imagine your life without mechanics, farmers, coal miners, oil drillers, plumbers, roofers, electricians, pest control, the people who stock the shelves, who make our steel, police our streets, put out our fires, pave our roads, dig our ditches, haul our garbage, and plow the snow. Within a month, our world stops turning. Within six months, welcome to dystopia. Within a year, we’re eating one another.
But if you really want to know who keeps our world turning, it’s the truck drivers.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
What a great analogy.
“Anyone familiar with my scribbling knows that I separate modern society into two categories: World Turners and The Useless.”
Notice his these guys make everything about themselves.
Interesting take on Atlas shrugging.
Shout out to my youngest, who became a driver when I just didn’t get it, and now is doing quite well.
I am going to guess you didn’t actually read this, otherwise you would know he put himself and every other writer in the useless category.
Amen!
Go truckers!
This sums it up: "You don’t need a vaccine passport to attend the Oscars, but you do need one to be a truck driver."
John Galt is a movement not a single person, the blue collar working class makes things work and when they’ve had enough and push back things go south quickly and the elites totally lose their mind
And those that issued fines or arrests must resign before they start delivering again.
See how long it will take to break the backs of the tyrants.
I did read it.
This excerpt and the title.
It’s empty rhetoric to me and my point about it being about him is evident in the first sentence.
In my opinion the first four paragraphs are nothing and the fifth finally gets to it.
And the fifth does not need to start with “but”.
Article should have begun with this:
“If you want to know who keeps our world turning, it’s truck drivers.”
There are as well other key players in the intermodal transport business. No ships, no imports. No trains, no inter-regional shipping. No trucks, no distribution. No fuel, none of these. It's the reason the U.S. government used to have a Secretary of Transportation although not so much lately.
LMTFA
Much in the same way you criticized a really good article to draw attention to YOUR silly opinion it would seem.
So your comment is “I know you are but what am I?”?
Sorry but these nice but empty rhetoric articles get tiresome.
They’re actually boring.
I AM a little disappointed at the cops, though. They are too beholden to their union bosses and their pensions to sit on the sidelines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzIUk3BL5Zw
The cops have started to dismantle some food stands. Live stream.
Dr. Floyd Ferris = Anthony Fauci. If as if Ayn wrote that with him in mind.
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