TGIF: “Swanson Pyramid of Greatness”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIZ4ckmd9-I

The stoutly libertarian Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation (played by Nick Offerman) seems to have become an audience favorite. Here’s where I think it began: with his unveiling of the “Swanson Pyramid of Greatness.”

For Randians: “Capitalism: God’s way of determining who is smart and who is poor.”

As a bonus, the Ayn Rand dating site here. A selection of personal profiles from the site here.

A sample:

[I am] short, stark, and mansome.

You should contact me if you are a skinny woman. If your words are a meaningful progression of concepts rather than a series of vocalizations induced by your spinal cord for the purpose of complementing my tone of voice. If you’ve seen the meatbot, the walking automaton, the pod-people, the dense, glazy-eyed substrate through which living organisms such as myself must escape to reach air and sunlight. If you’ve realized that if speech is to be regarded as a cognitive function, technically they aren’t speaking, and you don’t have to listen.

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