{"id":588,"date":"2009-10-27T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-10-28T06:56:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T13:56:45","slug":"bookmarks-for-october-25th-through-october-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/27\/bookmarks-for-october-25th-through-october-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for October 25th through October 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for October 25th through October 27th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/books\/features\/60120\/\">The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn&#8217;t Win &#8212; New York Magazine<\/a> &#8211; &#8230;as James put it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a certain insincerity in our philosophic discussions: the potentest of all our premises is never mentioned\u00e2\u20ac\u2030\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2030What the system pretends to be is a picture of the great universe of God. What it is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand oh so flagrantly!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis the revelation of how intensely odd the personal flavor of some fellow creature is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dNo one would have been angrier about this claim, and no one confirms its truth more profoundly, than Ayn Rand. Few fellow creatures have had a more intensely odd personal flavor; her temperament could have neutered an ox at 40 paces. She was proud, grouchy, vindictive, insulting, dismissive, and rash. (One former associate called her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Evel Knievel of leaping to conclusions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) But she was also idealistic, yearning, candid, worshipful, precise, and improbably charming. She funneled all of these contradictory elements into Objectivism, the home-brewed philosophy that won her thousands of Cold War\u00e2\u20ac\u201cera followers and that seems to be making some noise once again &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Monstersthe-Moral\/48886\/\">Monsters and the Moral Imagination &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> &#8211; The reasons for this increased monster culture are hard to pin down. Maybe it&#8217;s social anxiety in the post-9\/11 decade, or the conflict in Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsome think there&#8217;s an uptick in such fare during wartime. Perhaps it&#8217;s the economic downturn. The monster proliferation can be explained, in part, by exploring the meaning of monsters. Popular culture is re-enchanted with meaningful monsters, and even the eggheads are stroking their chins\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlast month saw the seventh global conference on Monsters and the Monstrous at the University of Oxford.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2009\/10\/12\/091012crat_atlarge_lepore?printable=true\">The history of management consulting : The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; &#8230; in October of 1910, when Louis Brandeis, a fifty-three-year-old lawyer from Boston, held a meeting at an apartment in New York with a bunch of experts who, at Brandeis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s urging, decided to call what they were experts at \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scientific management.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Everyone there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, best known today as the parents in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cheaper by the Dozen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhad contracted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tayloritis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: they were enthralled by an industrial engineer from Philadelphia named Frederick Winslow Taylor, who had been ordering people around, scientifically, for years. Speedy Taylor, as he was called, had invented a new way to make money. He would get himself hired by some business; spend a while watching people work, stopwatch and slide rule in hand; write a report telling them how to do their work faster; and then submit an astronomical bill for his services. He is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Father of Scientific Management\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and, &#8230; the grandfather of management consulting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for October 25th through October 27th: The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn&#8217;t Win &#8212; New York Magazine &#8211; &#8230;as James put it, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a certain insincerity in our philosophic discussions: the potentest of all our premises is never mentioned\u00e2\u20ac\u2030\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2030What the system pretends to be is a picture of the great universe of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71YpQ-9u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}