echo that! LOL
Been a fan of Rand for decades - Have most of her books - and the movie "Fountainhead" (would love to find or found a "Galt's Gulch" (;o)) ;
One of her best books: "Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal." She had a brilliant mind -
However, she was a long-legged, beautiful blond, trapped in a short, dumpy, pudgy, dark haired, plain faced body. (the painting was SO over flattering). She ruled her weak artist husband like a Mama T - had no children, abortion was handy and espoused by her and adultery was practiced with no qualms.
Truly a complex person: hard line pro-choice (before the phrase was coined) liberal on one side and adamant conservative capitalist on the other. Makes for a clash within...
I think you captured the essence there.
BTTT !!
which is kind of strange considering John Galt's speech in which he said, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, "Happiness is a lack of contradiction in one's values."
One thing Rand knew was how Communism gets a foot hold in a country - having lived the Bolshevik years and escaped as a young girl.
Not many years later, she was working as a screen writer in Hollywood - and a contemporary of Reagan, than a young star - and not a right-wing ideologue, but a lib-dem!
But, He came to realize that the film industry was being swallowed up with the evil of Marxist communism> and the libDem closeness to it - and became a conservative republican,
Rand, I believe, was an expert tutor in the machinations and dangers of Communism.
Reagan, to stop this take over of films, accepted the position as Pres. of the Screen Actors Guild and spearheaded the fight to stop it. He and Rand both testified in the House Un-American Investigations, so vilified by the successful smearing of the left. Reagan had many threats on his life and he had to start carrying a gun - indeed, as I remember, he had a Molotov cocktail or some such lobbed thru' the window of his home (when married to Jane Wyman and with a baby in rehouse.)
Since "The Wall" came down, KGB and Soviet archives, give evidence that the commission was right...that Soviet infiltration was permeated into all aspects of American life. .
Reagan's last year as Pres. of the Guild was 1960 - it didn't take long for the communists in Hollywood to regroup!
But I often ponder the phrase " the Lord moves in mysterious ways..." Was it more than 'luck' that a young girl who escaped from Russia during the revolution ended up a peer of Reagan's and worked with (educated?) him to stop the encroachment of communism - which eventually resulted in the collapse of the U.S.S.R and the fall of the wall?