The ubermenschen

There’s a scene in the Atlas Shrugged film where Dagny’s brother walks into a convenience store and he’s treated like a movie star.
Hullabaloo has often discussed how much outrage among the CEOs about the Occupy movement and the criticism they get is—well, they’re being criticized. They’re not treated like living legends. People actually criticize them for screwing up. What, just because one of them bought 7.5 million barrels of oil on his company’s account while drunk (“”Mr Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk” is a masterpiece of British dryness)? Because a banker can stab a cabbie in an argument over a fare and walk (as Digby points out, the cabbie may have been wrong, but it’s unlikely a poor man would have gotten off so easily)? Because even when their companies tank or they lose $20 billion, the worst that happens is the CEO is shooting for bonuses only equal to 35 percent of revenue? Or they gut workers’ pensions and leave the taxpayer to pick up the bag?
In short, that they’re not supermen, just average managers. And frequently incompetent and crooked ones. So yeah, I say disrespect away!
In a similar vein, a Christian blogger suggests absolute unrestricted property rights are not a Biblical fundamental.
And in an unrelated but depressingly typical statement, the president of the Central Mississippi Tea Party thinks women are “too emotional to vote” and we “might have been better off if we were still just men voting.” For my take on the right-wing dream of disenfranchised women, see here.