{"id":16228,"date":"2012-11-06T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16228"},"modified":"2012-11-06T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:15:11","slug":"embracing-your-inner-anarchist-because-there-is-no-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16228\/embracing-your-inner-anarchist-because-there-is-no-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing your inner anarchist &#8212; because there is no alternative."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my quick take on the presidential election, from a video made one day prior to the event: Mitt Romney is going to win an Electoral College landslide. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/president\/obama_vs_romney_create_your_own_electoral_college_map.html?map=HI_2,AK_6,FL_6,NH_6,MI_6,VT_2,ME_2,ME2_2,RI_2,NY_2,PA_6,NJ_2,DE_2,MD_2,VA_6,WV_6,OH_6,IN_6,IL_2,CT_2,WI_6,NC_6,DC_2,MA_2,TN_6,AR_6,MO_6,GA_6,SC_6,KY_6,AL_6,LA_6,MS_6,IA_6,MN_6,OK_6,TX_6,NM_2,KS_6,NE_6,NE2_6,SD_6,ND_6,WY_6,MT_6,CO_6,ID_6,UT_6,AZ_6,NV_2,OR_2,WA_2,CA_2\" target=\"_blank\">My state-by-state prediction<\/a> is shown below, but it&#8217;s not based on any sort of arcane science. I&#8217;m just betting that married people with kids and jobs will vote to fire Barack Obama for gross incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/president\/obama_vs_romney_create_your_own_electoral_college_map.html?map=HI_2,AK_6,FL_6,NH_6,MI_6,VT_2,ME_2,ME2_2,RI_2,NY_2,PA_6,NJ_2,DE_2,MD_2,VA_6,WV_6,OH_6,IN_6,IL_2,CT_2,WI_6,NC_6,DC_2,MA_2,TN_6,AR_6,MO_6,GA_6,SC_6,KY_6,AL_6,LA_6,MS_6,IA_6,MN_6,OK_6,TX_6,NM_2,KS_6,NE_6,NE2_6,SD_6,ND_6,WY_6,MT_6,CO_6,ID_6,UT_6,AZ_6,NV_2,OR_2,WA_2,CA_2\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" src=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/MittWinsBigSezMe.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that this is not an expression of racism, as you will surely hear from the perpetually-sore-losers of the chattering classes. I&#8217;m just betting that the people with the biggest stake in the game of human life will vote against the most perniciously anti-life candidate ever to seek the office of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, Romney&#8217;s win will not be any sort of repudiation of Marxism, contrary to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/332579\/crush-them-michael-walsh\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Walsh&#8217;s claim at <em>National Review Online<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s just the correction of a bad hiring decision.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s video, I argue that the self-loving thing for you to do is to accept that fact that each human being is sovereign and indomitable, and that, therefore, self-control is all the control that can ever exist among human beings. In the course of that argument, I cite an essay of mine, <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/meet-the-third-thing\/2404\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Meet the Third Thing<\/em><\/a>. I also recite an old poem, which I will transcribe here for what may be the first time it has ever appeared in print:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>What if I&#8217;ve been wrong?<br \/>\nWhat if I&#8217;ve been wrong all along?<br \/>\nWhat if everything I&#8217;ve said,<br \/>\neverything I&#8217;ve done,<br \/>\neverything I&#8217;ve thought about is wrong?<br \/>\nWhat if I&#8217;ve been wrong all along?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is this week&#8217;s video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5AKj9yLoKw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For an audio-only version of this video, take yourself to <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/selfadoration.com\/id521820100\" target=\"_blank\">the SelfAdoration.com podcast on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my quick take on the presidential election, from a video made one day prior to the event: Mitt Romney is going to win an Electoral College landslide. My state-by-state prediction is shown below, but it&#8217;s not based on any sort of arcane science. I&#8217;m just betting that married people with kids and jobs will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-flourishing","9":"category-group-therapy","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}