Glenn Beck Wants to Create "Independence, USA": An Amusement Park of Ayn Randian Libertarianism

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/chaunceydevega/glenn-beck-wants-create-independence-usa-amusement-park-ayn-randian




Outsider communities are a rich and deep part of the American cultural and political tradition.

Glenn Beck is going to start his own John Galtian live action role playing amusing park living community called "Independence, USA." It is fitting that Glenn Beck is imitating Walt Disney. Both believe(d) in protecting the white nuclear family, and creating a fictive world of heterosexual, normalized whiteness, where no Others need to intrude.

Some of his fellow libertarians have played too many hours of the videogame Bioshock and are going to establish their own floating city in the Pacific Ocean. Apparently, these libertarian Otaku did not realize that Bioshock is a cautionary tale--as opposed to one that is inspirational.

Like Jim Jones, Beck and his libertarian Utopian-isolationists are as American as apple pie.

[Graybeard]

1. Free Kool-Aid!!

Come and get it!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. So, they're going to bring Lord of the Flies to life on ther own giant raft in the Pacific? Cool.

I enocurage every libertarian to join them.

[marmar]

3. And apropos of such a place, no safety regulations......

So ride at your own risk.

[xchrom]

5. !

[RandiFan1290]

4. Let's get this party started quickly!

[Hugin]

6. Sure to be as fun as...

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Swimming in an oil slick.

Just like reading Ayn Rand.

Sorry, Beck somebody beat you to it... It's called Somalialand.

[catbyte]

7. Awesome! They can put it right next to the Creationism Museum!

[OnionPatch]

8. I hope it's somewhere cold and snowy.

So when they toss out their old and sick, they won't linger long and suffer too much.