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To: wagglebee

Hmm, maybe Whittaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged was right after all. What an asshat this guy is.


6 posted on 09/17/2008 4:01:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Hmm, maybe Whittaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged was right after all.

You know, that was one of my first thoughts as well. I was reminded of Chambers' suggestion that Rand's only true philosophical debt was to Nietzsche, not Aristotle. Provenzo certainly seems to show that.

44 posted on 09/17/2008 4:44:00 PM PDT by r9etb
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The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism bills itself as a group "dedicated to advancing individual rights and economic freedom through Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism."

Hmm, maybe Whittaker Chambers’ review of Atlas Shrugged was right after all

Having read all of Rand's major works, I find it pathetic that adults buy into Rand's Objectivism hook, line and sinker. Swallowing the whole canard.

Objectivism has many philosophical points that are attractive to the hard working ambitious individual, myself included, but ultimately leaves you with a dead soul devoid of faith, hope or love of your fellow man which in the end is the reason we live and breath everyday.

So it is no surprise this author takes this horrid position and tags it with a capitalist tag to give it legitimacy

48 posted on 09/17/2008 4:48:51 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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