Posted on 06/03/2012 6:52:51 AM PDT by jmstein7
Amen!
The Fountainhead explores in more detail than Altlas the role of the media and the shaping of public opinion through yellow journalism. Something today’s media seems adept at.
Ayn Rand sees Satan. She characterized him as Elsworth Toohey and various other villains.
Very true.
More about that in John Galt’s Speech (90 pages!)
That worked really well for Charles Manson. I'm not impressed with the atheist Ayn Rand.
In the Federalist, Publius believed that opinions or beliefs were formed by men through the exercise of their reason.And that reason may cause men to act insofar as their opinions or beliefs may cause them to act. Also, reason may move a man to act in accordance with what he believes is his moral right or moral duty.In other words, reason can serve as a motive of action when a belief causes a person to do something that he ought to do or may do.
While Rand’s atheism is not something I admire, that doesn’t make what the passages highlighted above wrong. I think in these things, she was prescient and recognized these things as accurately as Orwell did.
I don’t see a problem with bashing her atheism, but her views on oppression and subjugation. as described above are pretty accurate, and illustrate well the workings of liberalism.
Right... it can be separated from her take on capitalsm and socialism.
I think too much effort is spent trying to BE happy. One can’t BE happy. Even fairy tales end with “They lived happily ever after”, and not with “They were happy forever.” It is possible to “live happily,” and to have a good attitude and to find the positives and lessons even in bad situations. How much more directed would lives be if parents told their children they wanted them to be productive or to be self-sufficient, rather than telling them “I just want you to be happy?” Happy is so vague and confusing to maturing youngsters.
That’s alright. She probably wouldn’t be very impressed by you either.
That is the way I see it, but some people can’t do that. I understand it, but I think it is unfortunate. I guess that is just the way it is...:)
Correction - she is against large organized religion. Big religion is not much different than Big government.
There is so much more to Objectivism
Big religion IS the Catholic Church - the Church that Jesus founded. The Church that brought us science and just about everything the Western World has that made it flourish for two millenia. It is the Catholic Church that has brought us the Bible and the theology of the trinity. I say thank you to God for the big religion that comes with the Catholic Church.
sfl
Quite true. But unlike Ayn Rand, I'm not supposed to be the Wonder Genius of All Time.
Yep, my congressman is there. Peter DeFazio is so out of step with his constituents even the dems are disgusted. PD is going down in Nov 2012. Go Art Robinson!
GRRRRRREAT news, thirst4truth! BUMP for the thirst4truth!
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
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