Showing posts with label Cuffy Meigs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuffy Meigs. Show all posts
10 January 2010
A Real Cuffy Meigs or a Real Imitation?
Real life is imitating Ayn Rand's great novel Atlas Shrugged in many ways. More and more people have observed this and the sales of her novel have shot up tremendously in the last year or more. But did you know that among the imitations of real life is a character using the name Cuffy Meigs on a blog named Perfunction? He has a special flare for misspellings and calling the People teabaggers.
In Atlas Shrugged, Cuffy Meigs is a particularly crude and nasty guy, who dresses in a military uniform and carries a pistol. He is a bully who is made Director of Unification for the Railroads, so that unhealthy railroads can suck the life's blood out of the last of the healthier railroads. He eventually seizes the weapon of Project X while it is in trial and incompetently manages to destroy a large area of the United States, including the last railroad bridge over the Mississippi River. He kills himself, his men, and Dr. Stadler in the process.
I have no idea whether the Cuffy Meigs of Perfunction is using his real name or whether he aspires to be like the Cuffy Meigs of Atlas Shrugged.
Postscript: See the comment of Cuffy Meigs below. It turns out he is actually rather a libertarian/conservative commentator with an inclination toward sarcasm, irony, and the occasionally slightly twisted way of expressing himself. He sure managed to mislead me in the posting I had initially read. Beware that since I am not given to sarcasm and irony, it can take me awhile to understand that that is what is going on in some cases. Perhaps here I was especially set up by the use of an awful name like Cuffy Meigs to hide one's identity behind. It may be irony, but it is an irony I cannot conceive of using myself.
In Atlas Shrugged, Cuffy Meigs is a particularly crude and nasty guy, who dresses in a military uniform and carries a pistol. He is a bully who is made Director of Unification for the Railroads, so that unhealthy railroads can suck the life's blood out of the last of the healthier railroads. He eventually seizes the weapon of Project X while it is in trial and incompetently manages to destroy a large area of the United States, including the last railroad bridge over the Mississippi River. He kills himself, his men, and Dr. Stadler in the process.
I have no idea whether the Cuffy Meigs of Perfunction is using his real name or whether he aspires to be like the Cuffy Meigs of Atlas Shrugged.
Postscript: See the comment of Cuffy Meigs below. It turns out he is actually rather a libertarian/conservative commentator with an inclination toward sarcasm, irony, and the occasionally slightly twisted way of expressing himself. He sure managed to mislead me in the posting I had initially read. Beware that since I am not given to sarcasm and irony, it can take me awhile to understand that that is what is going on in some cases. Perhaps here I was especially set up by the use of an awful name like Cuffy Meigs to hide one's identity behind. It may be irony, but it is an irony I cannot conceive of using myself.
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