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November 19, 2009

Clue - UPDATED

Because of all the time I have been spending on the whole GET A JOB thing, I haven't been writing much lately, though I have been trying to keep up with my reading. In addition to news and politics blogs, I have a whole list of design related blogs I read regularly. Sometimes the two merge. One of the news and politics bloggers will write something about design. It is often interesting and amusing to read about one's profession from someone who knows nothing about it.

Sometimes one of the design blogs dips a toe into politics. This is usually less fun as the design world is by and large just to the left of Hollywood. To the point where I sometimes wonder if I should copy Andrew Breitbart and set up a site for conservative designers to vent. Big Design.

There are designer's out there who do not dance in the fever swamps of the far left.

One of the designers who gets it is Andy Rutledge of Design view. Not only does he get it. He gets it with passion. Today Andy did more than dip a toe into politics and culture he dove in.

Risk is too much maligned in western culture these days and that has begun to seriously piss me off. It wasn’t always so. The west, the US in particular, used to be a place where risktaking was understood to be a fundamental component of life; successful life especially.

A life free from risk is a life bereft of liberty, a life of bondage, and it kills the human spirit. This fact has never and will never change, but the definition of liberty is being redefined and the culture restructured in my country in a foolish effort to remove risk. The foundation of what built this nation is crumbling in the process.

As they say "read the whole thing." And be sure to check out the desktop wallpapers Andy made to accompany the post. I've got mine.

UPDATE:

C. Edmund Wright at American Thinker echo's Andy's sentiment:

With the threat of this administration and congress, what is the possible motivation for anyone with ideas and capital to invest his time, talent, and money into a risky endeavor? There appears to be none. In fact, there appear to be powerful incentives not to invest any time or treasure -- thus an economy with almost zero creative inertia.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 06:14 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment

1 Risk, as an attitude, is in the eye of the beholder. I see taking a job as more risk than operating my own small business whereas many folks looks at it just the opposite.

Posted by: T F Stern at November 20, 2009 02:47 PM (Ruh11)

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