Below is an early draft of an essay on the United Nations. The final draft will have a lot of works cited. This picture was drawn a long time ago. I think it was February of last year when I was writing the end to JF. I started out with the shape of a weasel and then made it stand up belly exposed. Then I drew a bunch of words around it. Not very interesting, is it? Well, what else can I say? You don't need a real-life model to make a good drawing. I've only seen a real-life picture of a weasel a few times and this is the product. Just think about what the weasel does rather than what the weasel looks like. The weasel runs along the ground, belly hugging the ground, really. It is very acrobatic, though, being able to capture prey much larger than itself.
Monday morning rolls along and I still have no job. I'm going to look for a job right after this short rant. This pic I drew that is so-so. It shows how amateur I am at drawing. I will list the ways that I lack in drawing:
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Yesterday was not a good day for JF. I wasted most of the day.
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I think I'm going to take back part of what I said yesterday. I was thinking about doing what I've never done on JF: changing what I wrote after I wrote it. But I won't. What I said about Ayn Rand's Fountainhead was true yet misleading at best. Her main character, Roark, is a free spirit. That is true. He is obsessed with buildings, yes. He is impersonal, also true. But an elitist and an immoral person? Not exactly. You can't characterize even a characterized character in this book. I assume that she built each character on values alone. So his actions are what she thinks of individualism and selfishness. She likes it. She thinks that it is a virtuous lifestyle. The fact that he is a martyr for the cause of modern architecture just bringing out the best and worst in him. What I said about the two allied/opposed factions of capitalists and socialists is true. It is the anarchist's job to fight these two with one thing that Ayn Rand champions above all: the human mind.