Legislators and lobbyists express some confusion over the intent of the state’s new billboard rules, particularly the loss of local authority over tree-cutting permitted under new vegetation-clearing permits.
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“Adams said it is simply trying to ensure that advertisers who pay for messages on signs can have them seen by motorists.”
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/20/3111471/confusion-clouded-billboard-laws.html#storylink=cpy
This controversy reflects the morality of sacrifice: We will sell you a permit to use your property in a legal way, if you qualify, but you must, at the same time, sacrifice your own concrete self-interest in favor of an undefined mystical “greater good” and passively allow the forested commons to obscure your product from the marketplace.
The ‘property’ is only the actual billboard itself. The location of that billboard is typically owned by some other person or entity, and that small amount of space is rented or leased. Nowhere is it written in law that the billboard owner has (or should have) the ‘right’ to destroy a natural setting for pursue this (to you) sacrosanct “concrete self-interest.” “Allow the forested commons…” indeed.
“Billboard sites are typically leased from an unrelated third party who owns the land or
structure to which the billboard is affixed. The owner of the site generally has no interest
in the billboard structure. A billboard site, the land or structure upon which a billboard is
situated, is generally limited to an area large enough to accommodate the billboard
structure and foundation, along with enough space to provide for access to do service and
maintenance work.”
http://www.dornc.com/publications/billboard/billboard_valuation.pdf
You really should at least have a basic grasp on facts before going into your one-note song and dance.
oh, for the love of Adam.
Tim, I appreciate the post-modern efforts of cutting and pasting random sections of Ayn Rand’s writings into sections that almost resemble a coherent thought process.
It evokes the later work of Warhol, but touches on the oft-ignored parallel in politics and absurdity, giving the reader the equivalent of a sharp, strong dose of Absinthe and Whiskey, reading Immanuel Kant upside down in a pretentious, over-priced SF bar.
Conversely, in your efforts to juxtapose ideology and completely-made-up, easily-refuted nonsense, you force the reader to question not only his or her own mortality, but the very mortality of society as we know it. In this post-post-modern world, where truth is relative, you highlight the errors of moral and truthful relativism.
Some of your best work.