{"id":12072,"date":"2020-04-17T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2020-04-17T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:22:44","slug":"quote-for-the-day-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12072","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the pandemic drags on and one public official after another promises to &#8220;follow the science,&#8221; I find myself recalling this passage from Galt&#8217;s speech in Ayn Rand&#8217;s <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Whatever else they fought about, it was against man&#8217;s mind that all your moralists have stood united.  It was man&#8217;s mind that their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy.  <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As church after church makes itself the locus of regional outbreaks &#8212; and one idiot, howling, bellowing preacher after another dies of the disease &#8212; it appears clear to me that Rand knew what she was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Some related thoughts, in no particular order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Good for the governors.  It <i>is<\/i> science, not thoughts and prayers, that is going to find a route back to something resembling normalcy.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>It galls me something fierce when I think of scarce resources being consumed to save nitwits who deliberately exposed themselves to an often-fatal sickness &#8212; as smart, hard-working nurses, EMT&#8217;s, doctors, police, <i>et cetera<\/i>, do without.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>When this is all over, don&#8217;t forget the needless suffering caused by Godly fools.  The anti-mind really <i>is<\/i> the anti-life, and I&#8217;m not kidding when I talk about death-wish theology.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the pandemic drags on and one public official after another promises to &#8220;follow the science,&#8221; I find myself recalling this passage from Galt&#8217;s speech in Ayn Rand&#8217;s Atlas Shrugged. Whatever else they fought about, it was against man&#8217;s mind &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12076,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}