What Happened to IBM?

Rand is always my guide when it comes to matters like this, although I don't agree with her on alot of other things.

However, in understanding the mentality of those who envy the successful she is wonderful. Atlas Shrugged is her masterpiece in depicting how the talented and gifted are the targets of the mob who hate to see anyone do better then them.

Historically, new wealth producing ideas undergo a three step process- the discovery, which results in the inventor becoming wealthy, the societal reaction, in which the idea becomes the target of the envious ,and the compromise which results. IBM has obviously been the victim of this process.

Greg, one of the keys is how much our public education system has been systematically and specifically targeted by the socialist left. I remind you of my post cited below and note how many of the goals of Communism impinge upon our education system that is so failing us today. And if you think about it, the surest way to achieve most of the goals on their list is through a steady erosion of values, etc., via those same schools that produce the next generation of citizens.

http://theinterface.townhall.com/g/aa4682d1-b1fc-4497-8ba3-30c5ea5b9e2f

Good post.

I have long been an ardent defender of Microsoft. I work in the tech business and I am constantly surrounded by microsoft haters.

Its a profound illness. Now certainly MIcrosoft has its problems but one thing that can;t be argued with is its business model.

The microsoft haters complain about everything from saying "microsoft sucks" to Microsoft is virus prone" blah blah blah.

It reaches at times insane levels where for example at times people will actually complain about "features" in Microsoft as if having extra functionality is a bad thing.

Does Microsoft do everything best. No but they do what they do do best. They provide a feature rich operating system that is easy to use. Its not linux where unless you are a computer geek you have no prayer of ever using. It actually has programs that work without having to understand how to program the config files on the workstation to make it work. In short it is a system that work 98% of the time, is easy to use, relatively inexpensive for the average user is nonproprietary with its hardware. As a result it has a veritable monopoly on the desktop market.

When someone wants to compete with microsoft by providing soemthing similar then by all means. Monopolies by their nature don't last forever because someone eventually comes along and provides something better for cheaper.

...like the poor, will always be with us, and probably for the same reason--they are both non-normies.

That's really too general, I suppose. Not all the poor suffer from the emotional disorder known as laziness. Some are truly mentally ill, with miswired or otherwise damaged brains. Some have fallen into poverty temporarily, through no fault of their own. But a certain percentage of the poor are poor because they have chosen to be poor rather than take responsibility for their choices and actions. These are the non-normies.

But all those who are full of envy and resentment are non-normies whose envy and resentment have arisen out of their choices as children to follow the example of their parents in hanging onto their anger and frustration at being thwarted, instead of grieving it out and moving on.

What Jesus really came to teach us is what "normal" is, and break the cycle of non-normieness purpetuating itself unto the tenth generation.

I strongly urge everyone to check out http://www.non-normie.com for more detail on the difference between normies and non-normies, and how to deal with the non-normies in your lives (especially in politics, the educational establishment, and everywhere else they breed like maggots).

And remember those cartoons of Mohammed, and the violent reaction they provoked? Islam is a religion founded by a flaming non-normie, and it shows. The only way to laugh it out of existence is to carry a very large stick with which to defend yourself against the screaming insanity of Mohammed's followers.

Alternatively, we normies and recovering non-normies could work together to build cities and towns in space as safe haven against the coming dominance of the Right-Polar Non-normies following the total, craven collapse of the Left-Polar Non-normies now making idiots of themselves in the halls of governance here and in Europe.

Just my thoughts.

P.S. I've added you to my blog roll.