Tale of Two Comments

There is a scene in ATLAS SHRUGGED where Dagny is astonished that the crowd cannot tell that John Galt is the hero and that the little men around him are whining rotters merely at a glance, and she is nigh lightheaded with indignation and surprise. How could they not see? Who cannot tell the difference between darkness and light?

I understand her frustration.

Today, on the same day, on the same topic, I came across these two quotes concerning the efforts of disenfranchised and excluded science fiction writers trying to combine into a voting bloc to get our names on the Hugo ballot. We are excluded because and only because, we put story telling above sermon preaching. Leftwing nutjobs (but I repeat myself) indulge instead in sermonizing preaching at the expense of story-telling.

Deep down, it seems the Left do not even like story-telling, because story serve truth and joy; stories praise heroism and serve as examples of love and self-sacrifice.

The Left likes lies. Joyful men are hard to control, hard to convince, hard to break.

The Left regards joy as childish, and despair as the truly sober and mature frame of mind in which one should bow to Tsathoggua the Toad-God of Hyperborea, or Yg-Yralkh the Terrible in the Eighth Dimensional Dominion of the Living Brain Slime, or whatever unholy creature the Leftist actually do worship, such as Mao or Che.

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