If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that man has to reject.
Rand is right, Christianity is wrong. Why should I give a pickpocket the shirt off my back? And why should I feel guilty if I don't see the sense of doing it?
Posted on 11/03/2009 12:13:51 AM PST by Tempest
Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave. She regularly tops any list of books that Americans say have most influenced them. Since the great crash of 2008, her writing has had another Benzedrine rush, as Rush Limbaugh hails her as a prophetess. With her assertions that government is "evil" and selfishness is "the only virtue," she is the patron saint of the tea-partiers and the death panel doomsters. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?
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IBTZ
you’re a douchebag
So tell me how enriching was Mein Kampf that you read it twice...
Well, if you really want to get into it, you are aware that Jesus specifically supported slavery, right? Break out the Bible and check out Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 12:47, and Matthew 10:24-25.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that man has to reject.
Rand is right, Christianity is wrong. Why should I give a pickpocket the shirt off my back? And why should I feel guilty if I don't see the sense of doing it?
Which did Jesus hold in higher regard: the adulteress or the Pharisee?
I read it first in English and then in German to make sure there weren’t any mistranslations.
What do you learn from Mein Kampf? How to identify evil.
If you’d read it, then read one of Obama’s speeches, well, let’s just say that there are more than a few alarming similarities.
As long as Jesus, Law-enforcement personel, and Smokey the Bear link the definition of personal responsibility to the Doctrine of Negative Rights, rather than subject-status group obedience, Rand would be fine with them. But I don't recall any of them addressing political economics.
Your attempt at pitting Christians and Cops against Rand is contrived and grotesque. Rand warned - massively and overwhelmingly - against communism and socialism in particular, and any other form of political collectivism generally. To compare her writings, as you do, with Mein Kampf, is pathetic and insulting to her work, especially since Nazism was one of the collectivist forms she tried to protect people from.
I take it you didn’t read the article...
Michealangelo was a homosexual, does that mean his sculptures were bad ?
Ann Rand is ia celebrated writer, if she hadn’t written what she wrote she would be forgotten.
in short art transcends the artist
This article is is silly
Quoting Slate and playing into the liberal stereotype of the willfully ignorant bible-thumper. Why, I’d almost think you were a plant. If I were as paranoid as you.
Thank you for your honesty
I’m taking the same amphetamines that Ms. Rosenbaum did they make me paranoid, but an awesome writer...
Sun Tzu said it best:
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
To be victorious time and again you must know your enemy. And it is a Buddhist saying that you know yourself by seeing yourself as others see you. Only by reading and learning your enemy can you know them and also, by their own statements about you, learn more about yourself, thereby assuring yourself of victory.
Roman Polansky wins again!!!
Why, because I disagree with you?
LOL
Yeah, I especially loved the end, where Eddie was completely forgotten about, even though he successfully managed Dagney’s company while she went on a sexual exploration with three lovers, cursing Christians the whole way, until she too learned to cheer the destruction of mankind and the starvation of six billion people.
But what’s really terrifying is that folks like Alan Greenspan and Hillary Clinton love it. The only redeeming thing about it (and what gets conservatives to love it) was its hatred for the shackles that goody-too-shoes nanny-staters place on society. How does Clinton relate to that?
Frankly, the book is every bit as hate-filled as the Turner Diaries, just much, much more seductively written.
So, does that mean you'll vote for the Doctrine of Negative Rights of the U.S. Constitution, or socialist/communist tyranny?
Thank you for that wisdom.
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