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Is Rand Relevant?
WSJ ^ | 3/14/2009 | YARON BROOK

Posted on 03/16/2009 6:21:45 AM PDT by shove_it

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To: demshateGod

I presume your statement is based on the fact that, unlike you and other fools, Rand does not accept on faith that there is a god


61 posted on 03/16/2009 7:40:54 AM PDT by balls (I have seen the enemy and it is Hussein 0)
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To: r9etb
her writing style is just plain awful.

You mean like using 1,000 pages to communicate an idea that could have easily been delivered in 200?

62 posted on 03/16/2009 7:41:48 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Radix

If you enjoyed Rand, God bless you. It isn’t close to literature.


63 posted on 03/16/2009 7:42:37 AM PDT by Weatherman Bill
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To: shove_it

64 posted on 03/16/2009 7:42:58 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: Pete98; Lurker; rhombus; abb

Thanks all!

abb - Thanks VERY much for the link. I have been looking for this story for so long.


65 posted on 03/16/2009 7:43:25 AM PDT by listenhillary (Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: r9etb
She’s relevant to the point of getting one thinking. However, her philosophy is both derivative and often irrational — and her writing style is just plain awful.

I have never had the time to attempt Rand's Magnum Opus. However, I have long been familiar with the ideas of the book. I think this is an example of a book that may be better in its Cliff's Notes version.

66 posted on 03/16/2009 7:44:58 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: Weatherman Bill

Thus the saying - it’s hard to account for taste. Yes the book could have been 3x shorter, but I’d be hard-pressed to pick out the the parts to be discarded (though I’d probably start with Galt’s 3-hour speech - as much of what he states is covered elsewhere in the book).

I’d advise you on a personal level , that while you may not worship at this temple, you are still on hallowed ground. You may be “right”, but it wouldn’t hurt to keep you hat in your hands. Just my two cents...


67 posted on 03/16/2009 7:45:08 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: shove_it

I’m reading it...but I checked it out from the library. We need to start using the term looters (those who take what belongs to others by threat and force of laws) and moochers (those that take from others through use of tears).


68 posted on 03/16/2009 7:45:42 AM PDT by Lets Be Frank
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To: IYAS9YAS
It was the story of a couple sending their child off for I.Q. testing done by the government. All children had to undergo the testing at a certain age.

That sounds like Examination Day by Henry Slesar. It was made for TV in one of Twilight Zone's later incarnations in 1985.

69 posted on 03/16/2009 7:46:07 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: Weatherman Bill
I don't think you are really sorry.

You just love the attention, even if it is negative.

70 posted on 03/16/2009 7:47:20 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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To: balls
I’d be interested to hear your rationale for the statement that her “Objectivism” goes to far. I don’t see how this is possible since it’s based on reason and logic.

Can I play?

When Dagny finds the rusted remnant of the motor, she immediately decides to search for its creator. A tree, an ant, and lots of other things are infinitely more complex than a motor, yet "her 'Objectivism'" doesn't seem to think it obvious that these things have a creator too.

I admire Rand and her philosphy, but one has to be realistic about everything.

ML/NJ

71 posted on 03/16/2009 7:48:34 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: screaminsunshine
"Her fiction novel is now a non-fiction book."

EDIT: Her fiction novel is now a non-ficiton book our reality.

72 posted on 03/16/2009 7:48:53 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: Lets Be Frank

Also..two of the books that Glenn Beck recommended are in the Amazon top 10 right now...good news.


73 posted on 03/16/2009 7:49:24 AM PDT by Lets Be Frank
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To: jonno

Thanks!

I stated I agreed with the message, but didn’t like the style.

You are a gentleman.

God loves a gentleman.


74 posted on 03/16/2009 7:49:38 AM PDT by Weatherman Bill
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To: shove_it
Began reading it over the weekend. Some of the similarities with what's going on today, are eerily prophetic.
75 posted on 03/16/2009 7:50:37 AM PDT by skully (Place tag line here)
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To: Redleg Duke

I have spent a lifetime avoiding attention. Thanks for pointing out my vanity.

Good bye!


76 posted on 03/16/2009 7:51:36 AM PDT by Weatherman Bill
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To: KarlInOhio
That sounds like Examination Day by Henry Slesar.

I just looked up the Wikipedia entry on the Twilight Zone version. That's it! Now I have to figure out that magazine. It's driving me nuts.

77 posted on 03/16/2009 7:51:52 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: Weatherman Bill

She was a strange man-hater who wrote a hard-to-read book with a pro-capitalism message. Just because she agrees with our politics doesn’t make her a writer.”

Either you did NOT read the book, or you didn’t get the message in it.


78 posted on 03/16/2009 7:52:03 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Weatherman Bill

I agree..I’m reading it now and keep thinking that there should be an abridged edition. I’d like my oldest kid to read it but know he wouldn’t be able to get through this. Cut out half of the philosophic dialog..it gets repetitive.

I’d like to see a good writer come out with a modern version..with all the modern aspects that we have to deal with now.


79 posted on 03/16/2009 7:52:40 AM PDT by Lets Be Frank
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To: Huck
That is simply an outstanding post. I do not necessarily agree with your conclusion, but my gosh, I think that you have probably worked in the same places that I have.

I am going to borrow some of your words (for use in my own little world) because they are pin point accurate in so many ways.

80 posted on 03/16/2009 7:53:10 AM PDT by Radix (22;22 EST, 13 Feb 2009, C-Span2, Silent wait for Sen to come bury USA after burying his Mom)
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