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To: Dumb_Ox

Let me guess. When you read Ayn Rand (and I give you the benefit of the doubt) your traumatization at the hands of The Church prevented you from being able to understand what individualism means. Dumb-Ox indeed.


30 posted on 05/14/2006 2:51:28 AM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Misterioso

I understand individualism perfectly. It is the illusion of self-sufficiency preached to the self-absorbed. While perhaps superior to collectivism, its non-existent account of interhuman relations blinds its adherents to personal communion, especially to communion with God. Rand picked up too much baggage from the communists, like her atheism, anti-traditionalism, bad melodramatic aesthetics, and an overly economic view of life. She's good to read in one's youth, just so one can laugh at one's juvenile shallowness after one has matured.


36 posted on 05/14/2006 1:18:01 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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