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Glenn believes that he can bring the heart and the spirit of Walt’s early Disneyland ideas into reality. Independence, USA wouldn’t be about rides and merchandise, but would be about community and freedom. The Marketplace would be a place where craftmen and artisan could open and run real small businesses and stores. The owners and tradesmen could hold apprenticeships and teach young people the skills and entrepreneurial spirit that has been lost in today’s entitlement state.
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Across the lake, there would be a church modelled after The Alamo which would act as a multi-denominational mission center. The town will also have a working ranch where visitors can learn how to farm and work the land.
Working this in reverse order, I don’t think people are prevented from setting up an agrarian Galt-farm of their very own from a lack of knowledge about how to “work the land.” I think it has to do with how farming is a quick path to OMGBROKE.
Also, the church will be modelled after The Alamo? So Mexicans will invade it eventually? I’m okay with this.
ALSO I’m kind of having a hard time believing in the ability to build a whole new Galt’s Gulch theme park when Beck can’t even hire a copy editor for his own web site.
What rides would YOU like to see in this independent community paradise?
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Glenn’s Gulch? How about a bootstrap ride, where everything is taken from you except your bootstraps and you have to rebuild your life and assets with zero help?
Second Amendment Tilt-A-Whirl!
…unless you were rich, of course, in which case you get all kinds of handouts.
Of course.
Allison!
I think the church is so that the Galtian overlords will have someplace to make a last stand against the brown skinned hordes. Frankly, I cannot see any of these Galtian wankers farming, mostly because it is a fuckload of hard work them none of them want to get off their lazy asses to do.
A shooting gallery where they are the targets and you win if you make it all the way across alive.
The Leap of Faith from the top of a 100 foot tower with no bungee cord or net below.
I hope they don’t have a system of mirrors to hide it from the rabble. I’d like to see the No Value of Labor Shop.
Well, Teacups, obv.
Perhaps also: Space Mtn?
An emotional roller coaster is also a must.
Oh, yes. Featuring John Boehner and the Beckmeister himself. What will make them cry next?
My favorite quote about Ayn Rand :
Now, for me, fervent passion for the works of Ayn Rand has served as an accurate litmus test for a mediocre mind. The best that Ayn Rand’s thinking can offer is a way of getting in touch with one’s “inner asshole”: if you are the sort of person who is driven to distraction by the idea that somebody somewhere might be getting a free lunch at public expense, Ayn Rand is there to help you nurture such feelings. Dmitri Orlov
I just love it.
This is still mine:
My personal favorite Rand-related quote, from Kung Fu Monkey:
Definitely owe you a drink. Whatcha having?
I’d pay to see that one.
A little drop of Buffalo Trace Bourbon would go down nicely.
Somehow, you just know all the games of chance would involve guns.
Well, the ransom demands have been met, the crisis averted and we’re a family again. Now what?
The Howard Rourke Tunnel of Love.
Coming down the bar!
Thank you, good sir! Are you gearing up for spring semester yet or still chilling for a bit?
Gearing up. We have three days of placement testing in store–for about 150 new undergrads and maybe 40 new grad students–starting tomorrow. Classes start after MLK Monday.
Oy! Our semester does not start until a week later, but I am teaching a winter short course (14 weeks of work in 15 days!) and trying to gear up for spring. Tweaking the readings in my graduate theory seminar and my race and ethnicity class.
I’d liked to see them bring back the Loop O’ Plane. I saw more people hurl on this ride than any other. And, I know my rides, having done The Scrambler on mushrooms. Get that sucker rockin’ and spinnin’ like Glenn does his true believers and we may see whole skulls disintegrate. Shit howdy! I mean blowed up good, blowed up real good.
Ah yes, SCTV.
Aloha, A and ln pups…! How’s about whack-o-mole…! ;-)
I live down here in Texas, I want to deport some of these idiots , especially Glen Beck and Alex Jones. Do any of you all have room for these two idiots and their follower , which that would leave me a 10 other people here but that’s OK. It looks like Oklahoma or Kansas would take these idiots…..
“Glenn Beck’s “Go Galt” Cannibalism Frontier.” “Damn, these Galtburgers are tasty! Just like mom used to make after dad, ya know, went away and never came back.”
I’m interested in this church modeled after the Alamo — a shrine to the brave Texians who sacrificed their lives fighting for independence from Mexico … because slavery was illegal in Mexico and rich Texian land-owners wanted to use slaves. It’s so enterprising, it’s so free market, it’s so capitalist, it’s so … Glenn Beck.