Posted on 04/01/2013 7:47:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wrong...The problem is that the lines between business and government became more blurred over time.....We need separation of Business and State.
Rand’s own philosophy had serious, fatal flaws. However, her depictions of Leftist Government Compassion Fascists is completely accurate.
If this idiot thinks that our current crisis was caused by being too free market, he has no idea what he's talking about. I don't agree with everything Rand said but she was right in saying that free markets result in a collective good.
Bfl
Summary: Ayn Rand is wrong because people don’t like it and won’t vote for it...
LMFAO!
april fools. right? this guy cannot be serious
This appears to be an April Fools posting. It’s also really, really dumb for PJ to do it.
Bookmark to rebut this fatuous nonsense at a later date.
>>who is, after all, named after her
“The name my mother gave me was Randall....First question I was asked was, was I named after Ayn Rand? But I am a big fan of Ayn Rand...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD-R_OeP6tU
I’ve read everything she has ever written and my take is:
1) She needed an editor. She takes a great idea and beats you over the head with it for at least five pages.
2) Having Roark rape Dominique in The Fountainhead was so bizarre I read the part several times to see what I was missing. Apparently the fact that they both wanted each other made it all right and the fact the it was written by a woman makes it worse, WTH?
3) Her personal life was a shambles, she cheated on her husband and told him she was going to do it.
4) She was a hard drinker and smoker. OK, this doesn’t bother me because I have zero room to talk but if you want to be some moral authority, you might want to reflect it in you personal life.
5) I still like The Fountainhead despite the bizarre rape scene as that scene is better than the literally 100 page John Galt speech in Atlas Shrugged. Frisco’s money speech is good even if it does go on forever.
6) We The Living is an awesome book. Yes, it’s long and dreary, just like the communism the characters live in. If anyone here has read it, the parallels between it and Obamavision are scary.
Finally, I would say that what she wrote against are what is destroying this country, she was right on there. I forget the exact line but I think it’s from Toohey in The Fountainhead where he says they don’t care about people breaking laws, they want them to so they’re easier to control.
That (most) people don't like Ayn and won't vote for her preferred policies happens to be a fact. This doesn't make her necessarily wrong, but it does make her a disaster for anyone who wants to win an election.
If it makes you happy to bitterly cling to your conviction that Rand is Right while we all go over the cliff together, that's lovely for you. But it's not much consolation to the rest of us.
Sorry, but this piece is wrong, dumb propaganda. Had to have been an Obama voter that wrote it.
RE: Sorry, but this piece is wrong, dumb propaganda. Had to have been an Obama voter that wrote it.
Well, don’t stop there now, tell us why... IOW, elaborate please.
This article sets up more strawmen than a scarecrow convention.
If money is the highest moral good,
When did she say money was the highest moral good? If it was, then Ben Bernake would be the Pope of the Church of Rand because he has created the most money through any means.
Second, Rand’s ideology is morally reprehensible. Rand proclaimed such things as compassion, generosity, charity, and empathy as evil and enemies of humanity.
More strawmen. Evil? No, but they can be used for evil by those who want to force compassion. If I give food to a hungry family because it pleases me that is OK. On the other hand if that family uses their hunger to force me to empty my wallet for them then that is evil.
More than ever, the United States needs traditional conservatism — the conservatism of fiscal and social prudence that regards change and reform as not necessarily evil but not necessarily good, and views progress with reasoned skepticism.
That sounds dangerously close to the siren's song of a Rockefeller Republican, where the only argument with the Democrats is how fast to drive down the road to serfdom.
I really, really hope this was an April Fools' Day joke, and we can all have a great laugh over it tomorrow over a plate full of tree picked spaghetti, but I fear that it isn't.
>>She needed an editor.
The audiobook version (Audible, read by Scott Brick) has the Galt speech go on for about 2 and a half hours...
Sounds painful. In the book after they’ve captured Galt, he says it took three hours to tell them why he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) work for the looters.
Pretending that crony capitalism is Capitalism, and not it's true nature: Fascism, Kerstein goes on to mask envy and class warfare as nobless oblige, textbook Marx and Alinsky Communism.
Not even a good try Ben, we know all Commies hate Ayn.
No one understood the problem and its consequences better than she. Her solutions on the other hand..........
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