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To: Mojave

Pretty thin gruel. Someone who disliked Ayn Rand finds another reason to dislike her.


6 posted on 09/05/2010 9:06:29 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: BfloGuy
Pretty thin gruel.

Now here are some of Rand's notes on the fictional hero she was developing, with Hickman (or what he "suggested") as a model:

"Other people have no right, no hold, no interest or influence on him. And this is not affected or chosen -- it's inborn, absolute, it can't be changed, he has 'no organ' to be otherwise. In this respect, he has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.' "


8 posted on 09/05/2010 9:11:59 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: BfloGuy
"Pretty thin gruel. Someone who disliked Ayn Rand finds another reason to dislike her."

Yes, isn't it? This whole thing seems to sit astraddle a plausibility gap. Wish I had more time to dig into this.

14 posted on 09/05/2010 10:18:14 AM PDT by davisfh
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