How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon The perverse allure of a damaged woman.

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[carcraft]

I think Rand does make a valid point about taking from the productive to fund a permana underclass. “The Giving Tree” by Silverstein is a more in tune with the idea that you can only take so much from the producers in society. The idea that every body needs to contribute is both Christian and practical (if one won't work then they won't eat. I watched an ECHO challenge with Coast Guard rescue group against other military folks. During the early phase the required women on the team was a drag for all the teams but the coast guard supported her using a rope to help her up the mountain on the bike phase, putting her in position's where others could support her because she was very strong at orienteering. The other groups complained about the weakness of the female member. Needless to say the coast guru group won because they had the best orienteer. The underclass needs needs to contribute..

[driftless2]

Thanks for the correction about Objectivism. My response to the article was generated by my dislike of many scribblers using character assassination as an attempt to invalidate what the subject was promoting. I remember many decades ago reading about Objectivism. And I remember reading accounts of Rand some years ago that cast her in an unfavorable light. That column was similar to the one posted here in that the person who wrote paid scant attention to Rand’s philosophy. The fact is nobody’s perfect, but many highly imperfect people’s ideas live one. Like Rand’s.

[KC Burke]

great quote...

[editor-surveyor]

Wow, the loonies are as scared of Ayn Rand as they are of Sarah Palin, and she’s dead!

What’s funny is that nobody that I know of has ever presented Ayn Rand as any kind of paragon. She wrote a few books that deal well with the scenarios that inevitably emerge from the damage statist thieves do to the fabric of society. Why does that scare them?

[editor-surveyor]

"I especially love 'Christians' that try to resolve their adoration of Rand"

Could you perhaps name, say a dozen of them?

[editor-surveyor]

Well, here we are at post #50, and all you have posted so far are crude rhetorical strawmen; is there reason to read on?

When will you present your argument?