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.
“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 ... ?
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 movie was excellent. I hope they make the next two.
We knew she was right a long time ago.
Trying to mix free markets with enforced atheism as we see today in the invented separation of morals (church) and public square, produces the Black Friday and Jordan shoe lifestyle. In addition, it produces amoral banksters making corrupt deals with corrupt politicans who demand they drop loan qualification standards and hence, crash the real estate market.
And that all that Ayn Rand Marxist social idealism results in massive economic collapse - theft of the middle class’ wealth to the banksters who knowingly wrecked the economy with politicans to enrich themselves.
That’s the beauty of libertarianism. Amoral wreckage produced by one deminsional Darwinistic materialistic cave men. Hang ‘em high.
The Christian Right doesn’t treat her any better. “She cheated on her husband!!!” (Like no Christian’s ever done that.) I tell you what, a lot of conservatives will accept a liberal Christian before they’ll accept an atheist conservative... which proves a theory of mine.
Here’s Ayn Rand on abortion. Disgusting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0yUjMklVuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JWE7mp8nI
Often the charges that most attack her with can be boiled down to “She believes that people should be self-centered bastards and not give a damn about anyone else.”
Ayn Rand would be more of a role model, had her ideas not been used to justify sending America’s industrial base to China.
In that aspect, Rand has been profoundly harmful.
Not Rand so much, more those who claim her philosophy, to justify anti-American greed.
Ayn lived through the liberals of her time and country and wrote about them. Her writings, and the writings of others, are the teachings we should all read to get to know the liberal’s tactics and mentality and how to defeat them.
The question honestly begs to be asked – why? Why does this Russian immigrant, who died in 1982, bring Liberals to the use of such vitriol and character assassination?
... er ... the phrase "easy target" comes to mind ...