rand

a better article about ayn rand that points out that the republicans have used ayn rand's views about capitalism for their own agenda, and they either do not know or are ignoring the fact that many of her beliefs go directly against traditional conservative beliefs

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576256782014528702.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle

optimism and resilience

article from hardo

http://hbr.org/2011/04/building-resilience/ar/1

probably telling me to be more optimistic, but i have my own philosophy and i think i'm resilient enough...instead of being optimistic, i'm pessimistic...so pessimistic that i believe that there is no point or meaning to anything..it's a mix of absurdism and existentialism...it's similar to what camus wrote about the myth of sisyphus...my take on it is that everything sucks but accept that and you can be happy...except spam and galbi...they don't suck