By the Few Great Minds, Not by the Numerous Strong Backs

On cold mornings, as this one, I sometimes choose to check my email while still in bed. Therefore, I usually find an email each morning from Tuesday through Friday from The Parthenon with stories of campus life and campus opinions. This morning is no different from the others, yet this morning I replied to a column titled, American People Deserve Their Fair Share.

Here is my reply:

Firstly, my principal complaint, as always, is the author’s inability to check his facts. I have tried to assist in the past, yet to no avail. I penned a whole column deconstructing one of his porous arguments and still no change. These types of lacking intellectual rigor are to blame for the protracted periods of trammeled freedoms scorching the pages of history, yet the masses seek out the local raconteur for titillatingly picayune tales of the David-like poor folk and Goliath-like rich tycoons.

Secondly, the two most pervasive prejudices in this gregarious world--simply stated--are the poor man despises the rich man, as the obtuse, the intellectual. Yet, the correlation between the intellect and the wealthy, as well as the obtuse and the poor, strikingly displays the unmentioned truth that through knowledge comes power.

Finally, though, I desire to mainly note: Civilization presses forwards by the very few great minds, not by the numerous strong backs. With no aversion to risk, these great minds with their “virtue of selfishness” expand for us all the knowledge of the once tribe to the now celestial. Not to borrow too heavily for the Ayn Randian lexicon, these men are the movers of society, the motors of the world, not the uneducated, not the labor class, but creative class of visionaries and entrepreneurs.


I turn more jaded as I age. I read these types of opinions and realize these people with these opinions vote. I feel as John Adams sometimes felt, thinking, why do I try to help these people?

Election Day Ranting

Firstly, I value, myself, a political philosophy of Pro-Choice in all matters, Transparency in all cases, and Self-Responsibility at all times over any third-party Accountability. I believe in Efficiency, noting that self-sufficiency is not the same thing.

Mainly, I find exceedingly, a problem raises with the idea that change comes once very four years. I hear "change" and "reform" and I am like what in the hell do you think the other 364 days of this year is for or the 1095 days before the last time the big ball fell in Time Square.

Real change is a consistent activity: it is chatting with your friends and co-workers at lunch or over a cold beer at the end of the day, it is education in the forms of seeking and reading and analyzing facts in an opinionated world, it is wielding tough questions and demanding solid answers.

Change is coming? What? Who? When? Where? Why? How? Dammit to Christ, change is here in the lives and ideas of us all.


This a short rant from election day afternoon. I left it on my best friend's facebook wall. She was kind enough not to delete it.