They make my heart cry.
I especially love “Christians” that try to resolve their adoration of Rand...
I know what you mean. It’s like those Christians that admire that mudering lying wife stealer David. Despicable, but apparently the kind of Person their God holds up as an example.
They make my heart ache.
Hank
Try separating the message and messenger. Ezekiel was a stone cold nutter, but he was also a divine inspired prophet too.
I’ve actually read Atlas Shrugged. The theme is that society is held up by a few consciencious people who work like elephants to hold the mechanics of society and commerce together.
The others tend, from one degree to another, to ride on that person’s back. I saw this in the military, to be sure. A couple of guys in the commo shack that knew their business, and the rest that faked it until actually forced by circumstance to learn it.
Rand created a scenario in which these ‘pillars’ that were holding up society disappeared suddenly one-by-one, as if off the face of the earth. In not too long, society starts to fall apart.
The point is valid, and timeless. Lots of tortured genius out there, beset by addiction and madness. These afflictions of the soul, body, and mind don’t diminish the contribution. Van Gogh is probably the poster child for this in fine art. Poe in poetry.
Go cry quietly to yourself. You’re taking a page from a tired playbook - if you can’t assail the message, then assail the messenger. It’s alinskyesque.
Ty Cobb was an asshole. He was also a great baseball player. It’s a too-common tale.
I don’t worship Rand, but her message is on point. For what its worth, Hitler was a genius too, and there’s a ton to be learned from how he took a broken nation and turned it into one of the most lethal killing machines ever. He was a sick, evil genius, but there you go. The damage he did was incalculable, but there are lessons to be learned in how he pulled it off that you ignore with great peril.
You may find that many of those that have an adoration of Rand in reality just appreciate some of the concepts she espoused in her books.
Key word: Some
However, ultimately her “godless capitalism” would be just about the harshest world one could imagine.
They make my heart cry.
It would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic, but some seem to regard Atlas Shrugged as equal to the Bible.
It's a shame that so many impressionable young people are seduced by the message of Rand. It's a greater shame that so many are unable to outgrow Randism as they get older. If people are so much into Atlas, they would be better served to study the Dynamic Tension of Charles Atlas. At least that would impress the babes on the beach.
Could you perhaps name, say a dozen of them?