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Atlas ping.
Philosophical consistency?
Natural Selection?
She nailed our progressives with a railroad stake.
One could change those names of the libtards in her book to our modern cast of undereducated and morals-lacking congresscritters without diminishing the truth of the novel whatsoever.
The onlyl thing I disagree with is how we’re gonna fix this.
I really think CW II is coming, and I want to be waiting at the airport when Pelosi, Reid, et all try to escape.
The remarkable thing is that her heavy-handed portrayal actually understated the reality we are facing today. Comunists like Obama and Pelosi, and their enablers in SEIU and UAW disgust me, and Rand was right.
ayn rand nailed the boomer generation communists
in her book of essays “the new left”.
(it was reissued with a new name later.)
http://www.amazon.com/New-Left-Anti-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0452011256
that she is, in fact, Marx's most effective evangelist.
Oh yeah.
Fer later
Maybe she read The Naked Communist. I believe it was written in 1958. That pretty well outlines how we got to here from then.
Even more fascinating to me was the techniques she enumerated in “The Fountainhead” that Elsworth Toohey’s various organizations used to gain influence. It is almost the same roadmap that the Left uses today. I’m not sure if she was a “prophet” or just a very astute observer. Or maybe a little of both?
Just goes to show that there is very little new under the sun.
Without Christ there would have been no America and no American ideal of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Stem cell research is thriving and progressing, and does not ineluctably require or demand the destruction of living nascent human beings.
Blind faith is a gross understatement. From the beginning, when I heard that line, "Change," I thought "uh oh." people can't be that stupid; can they? to accept "change," without the slightest suggestion as to what sort of change?
They were. The question now is are they still that stupid facing the disaster that resulted, and the suggestion that we need more of the same?
Possible. The "Great Uniter" has been an utter failure, judging by his results.
The Great Uniter has divided the Nation into two opposing and irreconcileable camps : The OWS fruitcakes, the idle useless parasites for whom the Nanny State and the elected power brokers do not provide enough. And the working citizens who are viewed by those groups as cash cows, a source of everything without limit.
In terms of societies, the most unstable and ephemeral of powder kegs.
Lost me right there.
First off, reason and faith are not necessarily in opposition. If your faith tells you that something is immoral, it is entirely reasonable to chose not to do it. You are then using reason to place your morality above baser considerations.
Second, a reasonable person would have learned that there is no conflict between morality and baser pragmatic considerations, with regard to most stem cell research. Only embryonic stem cell research involves insurmountable moral issues. Combine that with the fact that embryonic stem cell research has produced no viable therapies (and is unlikely to do so); while research has produced several promising therapies involving adult stem cells, or umbilical cord stem cells; and you have no reasonable conflict. Actually a reasonable person would stop wasting resources on embryonic stem cell research (just on pragmatic grounds); since there doesn't seem to be a path to profitability there.
The author is either ignorant about the issue — or is being deliberately misleading.
This is a deliberate lie... There have been attempts to prevent embryonic stem cell research, which has proven to be less than fruitful. They have pushed for adult stem cell research, which it seems has become quite hopeful. The whole reason the left wants to push for embryonic stem cell research is simply to help justify abortion with the general public.
Abortion is the "slavery" issue of the modern age. I'm not comparing abortion to slavery. What I mean is that the issue of abortion are the same as that of slavery. The "Missouri Compromise" didn't work. A compromise on abortion isn't any more workable.
Mark
Re: stem cell research.
Government should not be involved in funding any kind of research except defense.
Rand didn’t predict squat. She simply told a story based on man’s repeated tendency throughout history to abandon individualism and submit to tyranny.
I hope this group can provide an answer for me.
I plan on buying copies of Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. The problem is there are four choices. Which one would be the best one? Atlas Society, Freedom Works, Reason and there’s the official, initial release.
If there are some Freepers who have suggestions I would appreciate learning them.
Thanks in advance.