Posted on 12/23/2011 5:48:23 PM PST by Misterioso
There is quite a bit to like about Ayn Rand. I will say, very mildly, that had she not been an atheist, her influence would have been very much greater.
Anthem, didnt Rush make a song about that book?
Actually, I think that Atlas Shrugged is a bit of a leftist bible. The left reads it, and adopts the tactics of the authorities in Atlas Shrugged. For example, they’ve passed so many laws that you can’t help but violate them. They enforce the laws in discriminatory fashion. They don’t have a problem with you violating most of their laws, so long as you toe their line. The instant you step out, though, they arrest you.
Had she not been an atheist, her philosophy would be incoherent.
Brilliant? Hardly.
“Rand explained that Capitalism is the only Moral Economic System because unlike Socialism, Feudalism, Communism, Welfare Statism, and the Mixed Economy, Capitalism treats people as Individuals and not the sacrificial animals that all the other systems did.”
One has to wonder where she got that idea (about morals) from ... ?
Chicken and the egg. Rand was born in Russia and she experienced the Bolsheviks in a very personal way. Then she came to America and saw that FDR and his New Deal were quite a lot like the Bolshevik way of government. She did not teach the Left those tactics — her books reveal what the Left is really like. (And the Left has been that way since 1789 and the French Revolution.)
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 movie was excellent. I hope they make the next two.
I think part 2 is in production. I also sent friends of mine a DVD for Christmas. For myself since I already have the DVD, I sprung for the soundtrack.
“There is quite a bit to like about Ayn Rand. I will say, very mildly, that had she not been an atheist, her influence would have been very much greater.”
Agreed. She did such a good job of putting the enemy into fictional characters that have a truth about them. Wesley Mouch feels like an actual guy—you’ve met him at the front of the DMV line. You see him writing new environmental regulations. That’s what drives the left crazy.
Where Rand fails is in creating credible heros. Her heros are cartoon characters at best. Even at 16 years old, I chortled when the hero nobly traces out the sign of the mighty dollar in the sky. And that failure is directly related to her athiesm.
Thanks, didn’t know that. :-\
Where do you think? Read Atlas Shrugged and find out.
I loved it as well. I hated to see it end. Can’t wait to see Part II.
She is OK in some areas but I find her philosophy of “objectivism” to be very incorrect.
What about you?
Rush based entire albums on her work.
Contrary to popular belief you don't need to have faith in a Supreme Being to have moral values. Christianity has recognized this question forever, as the problem of the "righteous pagan." St. Paul explained that God has written His laws in "every human heart." But if you don't believe in God you still have to live with yourself.
Think not only of the Christian canon, and the ancient Greek tragedies, but of the modern morality fables of "Lord of the Rings" and "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever." They each express an eternal truth: No matter how you may try, you cannot break The Law. You can only break yourself against the Law.
We knew she was right a long time ago.
The hard left is also atheist and Rand decimates their principles and philosophy with objective logic and reason, tools the left and atheists are supposed to own (according to them). They can't stand it, beaten with their own weapons.
I’m an Objectivist since 1961.
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