Benjamin Howard Curkendall - ProfilesArchive

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Active-minded people.

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Decent of Man, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Road to Serfdom, Fahrenheit 451, Phantastica, The Federalist Papers, The Catcher in the Rye, God and the State, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, The Origins of Species, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, The Godfather, A Brief History of Time, A Clockwork Orange, We The Living, Capitalism and Freedom, Requiem for a Dream, The Hobbit, Welcome to the Monkey House, The Lord of the Rings, To Kill A Mockingbird, Democracy in America, The Silmarillion, Brave New World, Brave New World Revisited, Philosophy: Who Needs It?, Anthem,

My Blog

You Dont Know What Love Is (You Just Do As Youre Told) - The White Stripes Icky Thump (2007)

In some respectsI suspect you've got a respectable sideWhen pushed and pulled and pressuredYou seldom run and hideBut it's for someone elses benefitNot for what you wanna doUntil I realize that you've...
Posted by Benjamin Howard Curkendall on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:11:00 PST

The Root of Evil - Francisco dAnconia monologue - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1953)

"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce ...
Posted by Benjamin Howard Curkendall on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (1961)

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking tha...
Posted by Benjamin Howard Curkendall on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:16:00 PST